Nutrition and Quality Manager at Olam Agri

Olam Agri's IFP Nigeria business is a leading animal feed and day-old chick producer, providing quality affordable poultry and freshwater fish feeds, and chicks to farmers. We operate one of Nigeria’s largest poultry feed mills and day-old chick facilities in Kaduna state, and in Kawara state, we operate a state-of-the-art aqua feed plant, along with a poultry feed mill and a soy crush facility. We have attained a market Leadership in all the verticals. IFP business is focused on driving the livestock business opportunity in Nigeria with continuous investments into the sector.

Key Deliverables

• The incumbent should have a wide knowledge about the nutritional and quality specifications of different raw materials used in animal feeds.
• Knowledgeable about the quality control system used in the animal feed industry (NIR calibration, wet chemistry proximate analysis, mineral analysis, process control, and in-market quality).
• Well experienced in the least cost animal feed formulations with a strong understanding of poultry, cattle (beef & dairy) and small ruminants (sheep & goat) formulations. Experience in Aqua feed would be advantageous.
• Implement and monitor the quality assurance policies and standards
• Maintain expertise in nutritional trends, and keep up-to date with regulatory changes and feed safety.
• Ability to conduct R&D trials in a safe, ethical and reliable manner.
• The incumbent will work closely with production managers, feed mill managers, and farm managers for optimal feed production.
• The incumbent will support the technical and commercial team by providing training, information and services to customers.

Requirements

• The incumbent should have very good people management, communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate and influence a matrix of internal and external stakeholders at varied levels.
• The incumbent should have a bachelor’s degree in animal sciences. A postgraduate degree in animal nutrition is a plus. 
• A minimum of 10 years of work experience in nutrition and quality assurance in the feed business is required