Manager of crop protection, fertilizers, seeds and planting material at SDTM-CI / GROUPE CARRE D’OR (2022-03 – Present)
- Coordinate a 1,000-ha agro-industrial maize production project
- Coordinate a 500-ha food and vegetable crop production project (soybean, sunflower, cassava;…)
- Plan, implement and monitor production inputs, fertilization and plant protection activities
- Conduct market studies and determine seed and input requirements based on the crop
- Establish and manage multiple supplier portfolio, local and international
- Prepare and manage the annual budget of over 400 millions for inputs and seeds
- Conducted market benchmarking and negotiated prices, delivery lead times, payment terms and commercial conditions with suppliers;
- Prepare purchasing budgets for pesticides
- Prepare purchasing budgets for seeds
- Prepare purchasing budgets for fertilizers
- Manage purchasing and coordinate the supply of inputs and seeds to the warehouse.
- Followed procurement process from the issuance of the pruchase order issuance to shipment and delivery to site
- Monitored supplier invoices and payments;
- Monitoring the procurement of pivot and drip irrigation equipment with suppliers.
- Handling of agricultural equipment purchased in Italy and monitoring of international purchases of popcorn maize and tomato seeds
- Coordinate soil analyses with the laboratory.
- Monitored monthly site inventories and stock availability to secure crop operations
- Prepared and monitored registration and renewal applications for distributor licenses
- Prepared and monitored 2 registration applications for public health insecticide
- Coordinated regulatory approvals, regulatory monitoring, soil analyses with ENVAL laboratory and field missions;
- participate in activity follow-up meetings with the Ministry of Agriculture
- prepare monthly, mid-term, and annual activity reports
Agricultural Technical Manager & Data Administrator at AGRITEC SA (2020-01 – 2022-02)
- Prepare and track two registration dossiers for plant protection products
- Prepare and manage the application for the renewal of the distributor authorization
- Prepared 8 applications for the renewal of phytosanitary product registrations
- Developed technical data sheets for crop protection products and fertilizers
- Trained 900 farmers, including about 500 vegetable producers, and established 29 farmer field schools across Côte d’Ivoire
- Contributed to fertilizer, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide and biostimulant marketing and development strategies;
- Ensure data is recorded in the ERP
- Managed sales orders, supply follow-up, stock and payment monitoring.
Final-Year Internship – Quality / Go to Market at UNILEVER – CI (2019-05 – 2020-01)
- Managed customer and consumer complaints and finished-product returns.
- Conducted quality control of finished export products (CRQS).
- Participated in quality audits and procedure control.
- Conducted descriptive statistics, customer satisfaction analysis and SWOT analysis.
- Developed monitoring tools, including dashboards and longitudinal follow-up.
Project Assistant – Gontougo at INPHB / PRO2M (2018-11 – 2018-12)
- Developed quiz and conducted field data collection with farmers, cooperatives and farmers groups in six localities.
- Surveyed 440 people, including approximately 300 vegetable growers across 13 villages.
Engineering Internship – Agro-Industrial Cluster Project, Gontougo at 2Dconsulting (2018-08 – 2018-09)
- Quiz and interview-guide design, Data collection and processing.
- Cashew value-chain analysis and identification of value added at each stage
Cassava Farm Field Internship – Toumodi at INP-HB (2017-07 – 2017-09)
- Technical, financial, economic and social analysis of the farm.
- Analysis of the farmer’s production practices.
- SWOT analysis.
