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Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head of Human Resources.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage our client's Onboarding and Mentoring Programs
• Develop and execute a world-class onboarding program for new hires
• Develop and manage mentorship programs and monitor mentoring cycle end-to-end
• Plan and implement succession planning process for high potential employees
• Recommend strategies to motivate employees.
• Assist with the recruitment process by identifying candidates, conducting reference checks and issuing employment contracts.
• Investigate complaints brought forward by employees.

Job Requirements

• Profound know-how in Learning & Development
• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, English, Communications, Education, or a related discipline (Master's degree and /or Project Management Certification is preferred)
• 3+ years of experience in Human Resources Generalist or Specialist role.
• Exposure to Labor Law and employment equity regulations.
• Understanding of general human resources policies and procedures
• Outstanding knowledge of MS Office and HR Information systems
• Excellent communication and people skills

Communication Tools:

• Fantastic organizational and time management skills.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Professional certification in HR (e.g SHRM-CP, PHRi) is a plus

Start-Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast-paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.
• Detailed Orientation and Managing Complexity
• Extensive experience leading a complex organization and passion for getting into details to identify the root cause of issues and create innovative solutions.

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Reports To: Executive Director, Corporate Services.

Job Responsibilities

• Capture commodity price information and produce price assessments
• Develop and expand coverage of aligned commodities
• Develop, expand and maintain sources and contacts relevant to the market area of coverage
• Establish, maintain, and grow customer relationships by engaging customers and learning about their businesses, including their marketing strategy, hedging needs, and the value we can bring to their operations by way of market knowledge and products that best fit their business.

Job Requirements

• Experience in Commodity Trading
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Agric Economics, Marketing or other related fields; Masters degree preferred
• Broad knowledge in a financial or agricultural field
• Experience: 3 plus years’ experience preferred in a grain merchandising role or 5 years in a similar type of role in purchasing or trading.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written skills; ability to present in a large group setting
• Knowledge of merchandising practices and flexible contract pricing methods
• Analytical; problem-solving; prioritizing; and multi-tasking abilities
• Ability to relate to the needs of the farmers’ work with a wide variety of teams and suppliers; work with numbers.
• Implementing and Scaling Innovative Program
• Leadership experience, preferably in managing large network of partners
• Start Up Environment
• Project Management Skills for Financial Projections
• Experienced with craft, research, data collection, data analysis and financially efficient means of growing the company’s business and profits
• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.
• Detailed Orientation and Managing Complexity
• Extensive experience leading a complex organization and passion for getting into details to identify the root cause of issues and create innovative solutions

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Job Responsibilities

• Manage Babban Gona's retail and distribution channels
• Lead distribution initiatives to ensure continuous improvement in operational efficiency and effectiveness to allow an annual 30% increase in sales.
• Ensure merchandise is scheduled, received, unloaded, and checked as appropriate.
• Initiate and support strategies to reduce slow moving inventory, per organisational objective.
• Drive retail and supply chain management resources to allow company to maximize market share.

Job Requirements

• Profound know-how in Retail Distribution Management
• A Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, or related field.
• Must have 3-5 years of distribution management experience, preferably in a seed company or other agricultural company that works with a retail distribution to produce cereal seeds/grains.
• Experience in a fast paced medium to large sized distribution center environment.
• Solid knowledge of distribution operations, practices and procedures including merchandise flow.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.
• Unlocking Potential of Team Members
• Extensive experience and passion for coaching and mentoring a team.
• Detailed Orientation and Managing Complexity
• Extensive experience leading a complex organization and passion for getting into details to identify the root cause of issues and create innovative solutions.

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Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head of Enterprise Systems Product.

Job Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance for all our clients Technical Products
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality
• Monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Meet with the software/product designers to determine quality assurance parameters.

Proven Experience in Software Quality Assurance

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• At least 5 years of working experience in a quality assurance position within a business in a fast-paced and constantly evolving market.
• Proven experience in database testing in SQL inclusive of experience in the design and manipulation of test data and the validation of stored testing procedures.
• Experience working with various QA tools inclusive of bug and defect tracking systems.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Good understanding of one or more programming languages and strong working knowledge of Java and Python scripting languages.
• Have extensive experience in analytics, high-level problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage projects.
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus

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Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head of Partnerships

Job Responsibilities
Leadership and Management:

• Create of a departmental vision that is instilled in all levels of the department, which forms part of the business culture.
• Oversee the business's online brand marketing campaigns on digital channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, business websites, email, etc.
• Oversee offline brand marketing approaches such as design marketing and hardcopy promotional materials.
• Manage and work with individual teams and ensures consistency and appropriateness of the brand's messages in the market.
• Responsible for overall creative outputs inclusive of web promotional materials, selection of creative agencies, creative briefings, graphics, photography, etc. across the business.

Strategy:

• Develop and manage the business's brand strategy as well as corresponding brand elements in order to maximize the brand's equity.
• Responsible for the creation and placement of advertising that is in support of the businesses and sales team's initiatives through media planning, creative development, metrics, market research, and vendor management.

Analytics:

• Establish metrics for the purpose of measuring campaign effectiveness against KPIТs. Also establish a process for benchmarking the brand's performance in order to ensure that campaigns are relevant and competitive.

Job Requirements

• Proven experience in communications and brand marketing
• At least 5 years working experience in a marketing capacity, conducting online marketing, digital design, website management, paid marketing, or preferably brand marketing at a managerial capacity in a fast-paced and extremely competitive environment.

Analytical Skills:

• Able to formulate and present actionable insight from analysis of research data.
• Able to develop consumer and market information and insights through analysis of raw information and data leading to informed decision making and ultimately, increased sales volume, enhanced consumer acquisition and retention.

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Reporting Line: Head, Enterprise Systems Engineering.

Job Responsibilities
Technology Operations:

• Lead all tech operations on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Understand the business problem, challenge of existing technologies, and areas of application for AI technologies.
• Identify and choose the right AI or cognitive computing technologies for solving problems and formulate AI recipes for development.
• Develop required machine learning models or prototype applications applying formulated AI recipes and verify the problem / solution fit.
• Direct the design, planning, implementation, and maintenance of the computing infrastructure that supports the company's operations and business applications.
• Design a comprehensive enterprise information security program to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of relevant data.

Customer Focus:

• Carry out extensive research to identify needs that new or improved products can fulfill.
• Review research reports, analyze and compare competitorsТ products, and meet customers to discuss their requirements.

Project Management:

• Bring product development to a successful conclusion -- on time and within budget.
• Develop schedules for each phase of the development program and monitor progress against targets. Set up reviews at each stage to ensure the program is meeting its objectives as it progresses from concept to specification, design, development, and launch.
• Communication
• Liaise with the senior management team to agree on strategic development objectives and gain budget approval for projects.

Job Requirements

• Implementing and Scaling Digital Transformations in Learning and Development
• Experience building Artificial Intelligence Systems.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a team environment and deliver successful results.
• Able to develop schedules for each phase of the development program and monitor progress against targets.

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Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head of Enterprise Systems Engineering

Job Responsibilities
Product Management:

• Provide end-to-end product life cycle management from information gathering to reporting on effectiveness through analysis & financial management
• Collect quantitative product data and metrics through market research
• Synthesize customer research
• Gather product requirements and align them with business goals
• Coordinate with stakeholders to achieve the product vision
• Develop new product features
• Working on developing product strategies
• Actively mitigate impediments impacting the completion of release/sprint goals
• Efficiently translate business strategies into technical capabilities and product roadmaps.

Job Requirements

• Experience in Product Management Role
• Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Product Management,
• Information Systems or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 1 - 3 years of related experience as a Product Owner or in a Product Management role
• Proven knowledge and hands-on experience of modern technology stack
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience with workflow management systems; experience with Atlassian tools (Jira Core, Jira Software, Jira Service Desk)
• Ability to efficiently prioritize projects and manage multiple dynamic priorities.
• Proven ability to leverage technology to translate business requirements.
• Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives
• Start-Up Environment
• Thrives in a fast-paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.