Drive operational excellence by making informed trade-offs and driving initiatives that will deliver greatest possible yields at optimal cost and quality levels • Adopt and embed agreed best practices, frameworks, minimum standards and processes for all aspects of crop production (and removal where relevant) • Contribute to reviewing Standards and operating procedures to sustainably improve yield and financial performance • Achieve yield forecasts (together with farm supervisors), ensuring that farming (and crop removal where relevant) activities are prioritised and planned in a systematic and cost effective way to optimise profitability • Provide alignment between Crop Production Farms plans and Factory production Crush plans to achieve budget cane volumes and quality in line with S&OP • Coordinate and approve annual crop production and harvest plans with farm managers, including crop establishment and husbandry across estate • Develop, monitor and manage cane production budget and resource plan, with inputs from farm managers and service departments • Drive rigorous performance management, biased towards rewarding strong performance and compliance with critical behaviours, and including managing consequences where required • Develop and implement a programme to Identify and address problems and improvement opportunities with Farm Managers • Identify and implement sustainability initiatives such land and water conservation to prevent soils erosion, soil degradation, pollution and invasive weeds and to improve water footprint and quality, • Drive synergies across the group, effectively partnering with optimisation function and group counterparts to identify, share and embed opportunities for optimisation • Provide input into business cases for key capital projects in Agriculture and support delivery • Oversee effective talent and performance management, and build a strong leadership team and talent pipeline within crop production, by coaching, mentoring and guiding farm supervisors • Identify and monitor KPIs and balanced scorecards, track performance and flag any issues with individuals • Promote and adhere to Illovo’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) Must have : South African ID South African Degree or Agricultural Degree Must have managed a 1000 ha of sugar cane production Must have managed Farm Managers Must have managed Farming and Production Staff High acumen for numbers and budgeting High CAPEX projects list
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