Marketing Manager
Position Summary Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
Period : One year contract with possibility of extension based on well performance
Marketing Manager, who will respond to handle marketing and daily sales of AC members’ agricultural production, budgets and realization of sales targets, and we expect the marketing manager to be able to undertake the operational role and secure growth in the sales of members’ production including reporting to the SMUAC committee.
- Identify market needs and potential agriculture products and inputs in order to coordinate AC/PACUs in developing market strategy for the profitable businesses and enhancing in Making Market Work for the Poor (M4P).
- Create an overview of markets and sales opportunities, quality and logistics
- Plan and implement of sales promotion of member’s production
- Responsible for packaging and transport i.e., advice and capacitate members on production according to sales projections, optimal packaging, transport and labelling of the products
- Plan and execute optimal sales of production by AC members, including contract farming, presentations for sales and annual/monthly/weekly/daily negotiations.
- Daily management of the sales planning, activities and logistics
- Follow up on results, member satisfaction and services, and correct where necessary
- Optimise product quality to meet customer's expectations and SMUAC standards.
- Promote the development of a balanced and profitable SMUAC product portfolio, including calculations of production and sales prices, and follow up on budgets and expectations.
- Doing market research and analysis of the existing and new business for increasing at least 5 times of PACU turnover.
- Coordinate informing the producer group of AC members for supplying the agriculture products according to the volume of the market needed through the contract farming.
- Development of curricula and training material based on the results of field studies on advance market linkage to build the capacity of AC/PACU committees.
- Create initiative ideas on market linkage and business mind set to AC/PACU.
- Establish linkages between MFIs and source of funding to improve the market linkage and enlarge the business scale of AC/PACUs.
- Prepare monthly progress, quarterly and annual reports and submit to committees.
- Good communication and networking with business partners, NGO, resource persons, government institutions and key stakeholders for improving the market linkage of agriculture products and other potential business linkages.
- Perform other duties assigned by the chairman of PACU board members as needed.
- University degree in Business Administration, Economic Analysis, Rural Economic Development and Marking, Finance and Banking, Accounting, or related fields.
- Knowledgeable in trading law, banking laws, investment in and out outside the country.
- Has experiences at least 2 years with private companies, Banks, MFI and ACs/PACUs
- Outstanding business acumen.
- Skill user of the Microsoft Office and you have a great IT understanding.
- Communicates effortlessly and wining in writing and speaking both Khmer and English
- Good at collaborating across the entire cooperative organization.
- Honestly, friendly, polite, skillful communication and a hardworking person.
- Curious, open and theme-oriented.
- Ability to work under pressure and be highly self-motivated.
