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Company Profile
AGROPAL West Africa Limited (AGROPAL) is an agribusiness focused on processing and marketing fruits grown in West Africa for international markets. Our mission is to empower every actor in the agricultural value chain to ensure inclusive development of the sector. Our vision is to see a bubbling agricultural sector in Ghana and West Africa improving economies, providing incomes for people, and enhancing food security and health.
Job Description
As a growing organization, AGROPAL is seeking new talents to complement its existing team with its mission of empowering every actor in the agricultural value chain. Therefore, AGROPAL is seeking to hire a self-motivated, enterprising, analytical, and energetic candidate for the role of Factory Manager.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Leading the company’s daily business activities.
- Leading in developing weekly, monthly, and annual plans for the operationalization of the factory.
- Ensuring production plans are achieved at the agreed costs, quality, and within budget.
- Monitoring staff performance and factory operations
- Working with department managers and supervisors in developing and strategizing for production targets.
- Tracking and analyzing factory performance
- Preparing performance reports and presenting them to managing director and the board of directors.
- Liaise with business development and marketing units to secure new and maintain existing clients.
- Assisting responsible departments in the selection of new talents for the company.
- Collaborating with relevant managers to ensure compliance with quality and safety standards in the factory.
- Serving as the liaison between the factory and external regulators.
- Any other applicable duty assigned to you by the managing director.
Required Skills or Experience
- Master’s degree or higher degree in a Business Administration or related field.
- At least ten (10) years of professional or sector/industry experience.
- At least 7 years’ experience in similar role.
- At least 7 years’ experience in organizational leadership, management, and operations.
- Strategic leader with the ability to manage and effectively motivate large teams
- Embodies an entrepreneurial spirit and experience in building sustainable entities
- Proven expertise in developing and managing company budgets.
- Ability to pragmatically solve problems, plan a course of action using analytical, conceptual, strategic, and forward-thinking abilities to achieve effective results.
- Ability to recognize, react and adjust to rapidly changing conditions and to lead the resources in appropriate direction with cohesiveness and a sense of urgency
- Ability to effectively lead and build a team, communicate a vision, make timely and transparent decisions, solve problems, and manage conflict.
- Coalition building capabilities, external networking, and experience in developing strategic partnerships.
- Good knowledge of Ghana’s food systems including regulators, standards, and systems.
- Demonstrate strong industry connections.
- Proven experience in change management.
- Fluency in English – excellent communications skills, both oral and written.
Other languages including French, Dutch, and German would be an added advantage.
How To Apply
The deadline for applications is 20th December 2022. Interested applicants are required to send their updated and detailed CVs to [email protected] with the subject Factory Manager. Each CV should be a maximum of 7 pages, with four (4) referees. Candidates are to provide the contact details (telephone and email) of each referee cited.
- The evaluation committee will pay significant attention to the way the CVs are presented. Any CV that does not meet the required qualifications will be rejected automatically at the level of the administrative checks. Kindly note that only successful applicants will be contacted for interviews.
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