Senior Manager, Incubation Africa at Yara International

Yara aims to be the crop nutrition company for the future and is leading the development of sustainable agriculture and digital tools to contribute to solving global agricultural challenges. We have a worldwide presence with sales teams in ~150 countries and around 17,000 employees. Yara Farming Solutions, will lead the transformation towards more sustainable and efficient food production, by innovating our offerings and the way we work. Crop and Digital Solutions is responsible developing and scaling new “on-farm” digital and integrated tools and solutions for an efficient and transparent food system.

Responsibilities

• Representing Crop & Digital Solutions within BU management team. Define the Crop & Digital Solutions strategy, priorities and agenda for Africa together with the local leadership team, across the transform portfolio of new revenue models, digital services, new markets, new channels.
• Full accountability for building Africa’s Incubation growth strategy, GTM experimentation, continuous Research & Customer Success, Overall Market Offer/Business/Service model
• Align with and support product team for product roll-outs and upgrades in including representing market requirements for roadmap planning.
• Leadership towards local incubation team members including line management of digital growth specialists.
• End to end ownership of go-to-market strategies, country legal clearance and compliance, commercial business case, budget and resource requirements

Profile

• Experience in an expanding B2B and B2C digital solutions portfolio with end-to-end commercial experience.
• Post Grad qualification in Business, Strategic Marketing or related field
• Team management in an international matrix environment with specialist resources (e.g. sales & marketing, operations, etc).
• Awareness and understanding of new digitally-enabled business models in the agricultural space.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of Africa’s technology space and regulatory environment.