Cocoa Origin Manager - Trading/Sales/Marketing (United Kingdom)

ECOM is a worldleading soft commodity services group specialising in coffee, cocoa, and cotton with operations in over 40 countries and 6000 employees. With 175 years of market experience, ECOM is committed to sustainable and socially responsible leadership within the soft commodities industry. ECOM’s global operations rely on extensive knowledge and experience in supply chain traceability, risk management and client focused distribution to create a valuable and sustainable supply chain, starting from the local farmers and their communities through the worlds’ leading finished product manufacturers.

The Role

The role involves working closely with the Cocoa Procurement Manager, with a focus on areas in Africa and will oversee the sourcing, quality management and supply chain of cocoa beans from various origins. The role involves building and maintaining relationships with our procurement, shipping and supply chain teams on the ground in our origin countries, both internally and externally. The role will be based in London or West Africa origin.

Main Responsibilities

Establish, enhance and maintain key supplier relationships in several African cocoa origins
Assist in information gathering, supplier selection, contract creation and execution
Assist in managing internal bean sourcing teams in origin and price risk management
Help improve local processes and procedures to maintain profitability, high quality standards and operation excellence
Help to develop a robust quality monitoring system from origin to factory above and beyond
Manage quality staff in origin
Maintain high standard of quality testing
Assist origins in developing budgets including the establishment of fixed and variable cost calculations for daily pricing
Development and maintaining of pricing tool across origins
Promote, monitor, and strict implementation of EUDR requirements
Track customer commitments for origin programmes and coordinate execution in origin

Skills & Experience

Bachelors or Master Degree in a business or finance related subject or equivalent experience
Must have minimum 1 year previous experience working in origin /developing countries within in a commodities/agricultural or supply chain environment
Experience working in the soft commodities/agricultural industry would be ideal.
Strong interest in sustainability, agronomy and regenerative agriculture;
Strong communication skills and demonstrated experience in dealing with budgets and tight deadlines
Ability to work within developing country cultures, be a self-starter and able to build working relationships
Fluent English
French language skills would be beneficial.

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