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Job Description

• The Shift Miller in Olam Agri is responsible for driving operational efficiency, supporting business processes, and ensuring seamless coordination across functions to achieve organizational objectives.
• The role involves managing milling operations during assigned shifts, ensuring smooth production processes, maintaining quality standards, and coordinating with plant teams for uninterrupted operations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure efficient daily milling operations and maximise plant performance
• Maintain product quality and extraction levels as per defined parameters
• Execute production plans and monitor process performance
• Troubleshoot milling issues and optimise equipment performance
• Maintain production and shift reports, including downtime tracking
• Ensure compliance with safety, hygiene, GMP, QMS, FSMS, and 5S standards
• Control operational costs and minimise process waste
• Lead and train milling teams to ensure operational excellence

Additional Responsibilities
Operational Effectiveness:

• Monitor and execute production plans while maintaining efficiency and output targets
• Ensure timely reporting of operational performance and downtime
• Maintain hygiene and sanitation standards across the plant.

Cost & Process Efficiency:

• Minimise production waste (target reduction in process losses)
• Control operational and overhead costs within the department
• Support budgeting and cost optimisation initiatives.

Organisational Effectiveness:

• Manage vendor services such as cleaning, waste disposal, and maintenance in a cost-effective manner
• Maintain plant premises, including yard and perimeter areas
• Support personnel management and ensure proper record maintenance.

Job Requirements
Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Food Science
• NABIMS certification or Diploma in Milling from a recognised milling school (preferred).

Experience:

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience in wheat milling
• Proven experience in production and milling operations (flour/feed products)
• Experience managing independent operations and leading teams
• Exposure to troubleshooting, maintenance coordination, and process optimisation.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong technical knowledge of milling processes and equipment
• Excellent leadership and people management skills
• Ability to manage diverse and multicultural teams
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Effective communication and coordination skills.

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Job Description

• We are seeking an experienced Business Planning & Commodity Economics Analyst to evaluate the commercial viability of a proposed groundnut processing venture, with primary focus on groundnut procurement economics, seasonal pricing patterns, inventory carry opportunities, and raw material sourcing strategy.
• This revision reflects management's emphasis away from a broad feasibility role and toward commodity market analysis.
• The successful candidate will analyze historical groundnut pricing cycles, supply-demand dynamics, storage economics, and procurement strategies to determine whether significant value can be created through peak-season procurement and inventory management. The role will also support business planning, financial modelling, and investment decision-making.

Responsibilities
Commodity Market & Pricing Analysis:

• Analyze historical groundnut pricing trends across key producing regions.
• Assess seasonality, harvest cycles, supply fluctuations, and price movements.
• Identify opportunities for value creation through harvest-season buying and off-season sales/processing.
• Evaluate the economics of inventory carry, including storage costs, financing costs, wastage, shrinkage, and quality deterioration.
• Build procurement and inventory optimization models.
• Develop price forecasting scenarios and sensitivity analyses.
• Assess market dynamics affecting groundnut oil, groundnut cake, and related by-products.

Raw Material Sourcing & Supply Chain Assessment:

• Map key groundnut-producing regions and sourcing channels.
• Evaluate supplier networks, aggregation models, and procurement risks.
• Assess availability, quality, logistics, seasonality, and supply reliability.
• Recommend optimal procurement and storage strategies.

Financial Modelling & Commercial Evaluation:

• Develop pricing and margin models for processing operations.
• Evaluate procurement economics under multiple market scenarios.
• Build cash flow and working capital models linked to procurement strategies.
• Perform sensitivity analyses covering commodity prices, storage costs, financing costs, yields, and inventory holding periods.
• Support investment decision-making through commercial and profitability assessments.

Business Planning Support:

• Translate commodity analysis into strategic recommendations.
• Develop commercial assumptions for the business case.
• Identify key risks, constraints, and mitigation strategies.
• Support preparation of investment memoranda and management presentations.

Technical & Operational Assessment (Secondary):

• Validate key assumptions relating to processing yield and operational efficiency.
• Review indicative processing capacities and operational requirements.
• Support development of high-level CAPEX and OPEX assumptions where required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Finance, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Statistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in: Agricultural commodity analysis, Commodity trading, Procurement strategy, Agribusiness consulting, Market intelligence, Business planning and commercial analysis.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing agricultural commodity markets.
• Strong financial modelling and quantitative analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of commodity pricing mechanisms, procurement economics, supply chains, and inventory management.
• Excellent stakeholder management, reporting, and presentation skills.

Experience:

• Experience in the relevant [agricultural, food, oilseed, grain, ground nut cake etc.] processing industry will be an advantage.
• Experience working on projects in Nigeria and familiarity with local regulatory, infrastructure, sourcing, financing, and market conditions would also be advantageous
• Commodity trading firms, agribusinesses, procurement organizations, commodity research firms, or agricultural value chains.
• Commodity forecasting and market intelligence.