Agriculture Product Associate

Responsibilities:

Product & project development: Utilize agile project management methods to determine the best inputs (seeds, fertilizers, chemicals), emphasizing collaboration with relevant teams, adaptability, and customer feedback, to maximize farmer return on investment. This means for example taking full responsibility for agricultural products in the Apollo store, from advisory content, recommendations, regional mapping and pricing.

Training design and implementation: Develop comprehensive curriculums and upskilling programs for customers, managing the entire process from ideation to execution. Implement scalable training strategies and oversee their effectiveness through evaluation and feedback mechanisms

User research coordination, monitoring, evaluation and reporting: Incorporate Agile project management methods to effectively coordinate, monitor, evaluate, and report on user research, streamline processes, data collection, and analysis for informed decision-making.

Agronomy mandate - Project management focus: Utilize project management strategies to bridge the gap between current farming practices and good agronomic practice methods, evaluating associated costs and benefits at each step, to improve farmer return on investment and Apollo profit margins.

Training and Advisory - Project management focus: Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, innovative training and advisory programs, ensuring alignment with Apollo's objectives and effective delivery. Maximize the use of all the existing infrastructure of field agents, agro-dealers, and call centres including incentives to ensure the successful delivery of effective training to our farmers

Requirements:

Able to apply world-class knowledge of agronomy/soil science to a range of agricultural challenges faced by smallholder farmers in Kenya.

Comfortable generating, analyzing and synthesizing a range of data, from customer insights to large data sets.

Excited by the challenge of working in a fast-paced scale-up environment, in some cases taking decisions with limited information or compromising to ensure commercial and operational priorities are adequately balanced.

Industries:Financial Services

Function: Others