Belemou Mariam

Agronomist Engineer with 6+ years of experience in agro inputs and agricultural projects. Experienced in project coordination, input planning and procurement, supplier benchmarking and negotiation, supply follow-up, regulatory affairs, market analysis, field monitoring and reporting. Strong interface between technical, procurement, regulatory and operational stakeholders.

KEY STRENGTHS: Proactive, rigorous, autonomous, collaborative, solution-oriented.

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.

Agronomist Engineer – Advanced Agronomy Diploma in Agribusiness Specialization – INP-HB / ESA (2018 – 2019)

Agronomist Engineer – General Agronomy Diploma in General Agronomy – INP-HB / ESA (2016 – 2018)

Preparatory Program in Advanced Mathematics & Biology – INP-HB / CPGE (2014 – 2016)

Baccalaureate, Series D – Lycée Municipal 1 de Koumassi (2013 – 2014)