Cacao Sustainable Sourcing Officer

Company Overview:

At Marou, our mission is to connect the world with award-winning Vietnamese Chocolate. We are a vertically- integrated chocolate company dedicated to crafting the finest artisanal chocolates using only the highest quality ingredients. With a commitment to exceptional taste, sustainability, creativity, and design, we aim to provide a unique and indulgent chocolate experience to our customers. Our products are distributed worldwide, and we pride ourselves on maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.

Job Overview:

Responsible for quantity and quality in selecting and purchasing beans, maintaining sustainable relationships with fermenters/ pod-farmers, ensuring Marou has the best cocoa beans.

Responsibilities:

Cacao bean selection and purchasing

- Responsible for quality in bean selection/ purchasing (based on Marou Internal Standard)

- Responsible for quality in improving fermentation processes (Giving advice for farmers based on Marou Guideline)

- Responsible for good practices of pre-fermentation process to ensure best fermentation.

Cacao Sourcing Development

- Survey and update the bean supply and market

- Survey, expand, discover new potential pod farmers / fermenters/ areas of cacao

- Evaluation current practice, productivity, farming issue base on Internal Guideline / expert advice.

Relationship management

- Maintain and develop the relationship with fermenters/ pod-farmers

- Well management of cacao network from farmer to fermenter.

- Coordinate with related departments to participate in projects to develop cacao beans

- Solid communication with and provide support to trainer/ expert (if any)/ Line Manager

Contract/policy execution

- Responsibility for execution of purchase contracts, bonus policies.

- Solid communication with, and/or provide support to finance and logistics team

Sustainability Development

- Support for implementation of sustainability cacao development projects and strategy in terms of agronomy specialty in cacao tree, and quality for cacao bean fermentation.

- Understand the risks of quality variation and proactively solve the raised issues regard to quality and farmer relationship.

- Training of farming practices, fermentation process to reach the standard quality bean.

- Participate in the cacao traceability project by delivering training to fermenters on the use of mobile applications and ensuring the maintenance of the system platform FA mapping by Traceverified

- Other tasks assigned by Manager/Head of Department.

Requirements:

- Graduated from University majoring in Food Technology, Biotechnology, Agriculture

- 1-2 years of experience working in the agriculture field

- Sensory ability is an advantage

- Willingness to travel as required

- Ability to communicate in English is preferable

- Proficiency in MS Office (word, powerpoint, excel,...)

- Good at communication & negotiation skills

- Teamwork skills

Working time: Monday - Friday

Working location: Binh Chieu Industrial Park, Thu Duc City, HCMC.