Specific Deliverables:
- Develop comprehensive product strategies and roadmaps,
considering market trends, customer needs, and business goals after
analyzing data from trials/ demos/ OFTs and feedback.
- Consult with market intelligence, seed systems, and value
chain actors to document the drivers of variety adoption and develop the
product cycle strategy from design to market.
- Incorporate socially inclusive needs and circumstances,
particularly of women and youth in rural households in target geographies
and of human nutrition, in target setting and design and the go to- market
strategy.
- Manage advanced testing to ensure qualitative and quantitative
data from on-farm trials are available for product advancement meetings.
- Manage the product advancement process and pipeline from
late-stage testing to product advancement and recommendation for release
and commercialization.
- Support management in ensuring that the breeding programs
deliver products that market needs, and to do this on time, and on budget.
- Work with partners to increase the impact of crop improvement
by.
- Improving our understanding of factors affecting variety
replacement.
- Developing effective practices in the germplasm advancement
processes.
- Ensure accurate seed multiplication and dissemination
processes, including engagement with the seed industry.
- Contribute to CGIAR product design and management modules,
annual and multi-year work plan development, execution, and reporting, and
manage associated budgets.
- Capacity development to designated teams, e.g. PDT and PATs,
and partners for modern product delivery. As part of capacity development,
contribute to publications in referred journals, project reports, posters,
and papers for presentation at local and international conferences.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in crop sciences, plant breeding,
seed science and technology, agronomy or similar.
- Four or more years of experience in seed product management,
marketing of seed hybrids/ varieties and/or business administration is
desirable.
- Hands-on agrobusiness experience in the commercial seed
industry in Africa; awareness of industry trends and developments.
- Familiarity with the seed sector / seed value chains and
experience with agricultural digitals tools is desirable.
- Awareness of product development principles including how to
understand requirements for variety adoption and methods for marketing.
- Commitment to social inclusiveness, including awareness of the
roles of women and youth in variety uptake.
- Cross-cultural, cross-function team management and leadership
experience.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Results focused, persistence and pragmatic attitude skills.
- Teaching, training, and capacity development; ability to work
effectively within a product-oriented perspective while engaging with
organizations/stakeholders that might not share this perspective.
- The selected requires the following competencies: Team
Leadership, Negotiation, Resolution, Client Orientation, Critical
Thinking, Problem Solving.
How To Apply
