Job summary

Brief About the Position

FDVRC is looking for experienced Agri Business Professionals with entrepreneurial bent of mindfrom
premiere management institutions with experience in start-ups and agri-business companies. FDVRC is
offering unique opportunities to those who have the passion to work with rural poor and want to take
up the challenge to work for the small and marginal farmers/artisans to help them increasing their
income by promotion of producer owned collective enterprises for value addition and marketing their
produce. The selected professionals would provide hands on support to manage businesses of these
enterprises that includes Farmer Mobilization, setting up of input business, Commodity procurement
Operations, Marketing of Agri Commodities, training & capacity building, and community owned
institutions management.

The professional would be reporting to Commodity Lead/ Lead- Producer Institution Building/Regional
Lead as decided by FDRVC management. S/he will be responsible in providing support to Regional
Team in executing assigned tasks and over-seeing operations.

Responsibilities:

The professional will have clear topline and bottom line responsibilities and will be responsible for the
following activities:

 To mobilize the farmers as shareholder member of the Farmer Producer Company (PC)
 To undertake the pre-incorporation/incorporation/post-incorporation activities for Producer
Companies, identifying the location and facilitate set up of Digital Commodity Collection Centre
(D3C)
 To undertake the Procurement of Commodities from farmers as per set quality norms
 To ensure timely movement of Commodity from D3C to Warehouse of the PC
 S/he would ensure adoption and rollout of various modules (e.g. ERP, finance, procurement,
ZOHO projects etc.) by the PEs

Foundation for Development of Rural Value Chains
Website: www.fdrvc.org Email: jobs@fdrvc.in

 To feed all the data and information in ERP in a timely manner for generating reports
 Managing the Budget of the Projects and monitor the Fund Flow of the PC
 Reporting to HO in a timely manner with all the relevant information of the PC
 Monitoring the operation of the PC and support the staffs of the PC to achieve the targeted
project milestone
 To be responsible to initiate Agri Input business in the village through the team of PC
 To organize and imparting Training for Capacity Building of the PC staffs
 To Liaison with all the Stakeholders to ensure timely flow of information across the board
 To adhere all the Legal compliances of PC and statutory works with the support of CA and CS of
the PC
 To strictly follow Annual work plan and execute the same in a timely manner with HO team
 Develop SOPs for business operations to be taken up by the Producer Enterprises including
procurement, logistics, storage, materials management, financial management, value addition,
marketing/trading, cost control, budget oversight.

Foundation for Development of Rural Value Chains
Website: www.fdrvc.org Email: jobs@fdrvc.in

Educational Qualifications Required
 Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and allied, food technology, commerce or other relevant fields.
 MBA in Agribusiness/Rural Management from an institution of repute
Experience
 Minimum 2-3 years of relevant experience in agri-business with a reputed company of which at
least 1 year should be in field level engagements in Agri Sourcing or in allied business
Skills and Knowledge
 Strong business skills – financial analysis, operations management, supply chain management,
market analysis
 Strong organizational and planning skills
 Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, with demonstrated strength in relationship
management
 Ability to work independently in unstructured situations, develop business plans and
support recommendations with data/analysis
 As the PCs and FDRVC work in an ERP enabled work environment, excellent computer skills are
required

Desirable: Fluency in English and Hindi is essential. Proficiency in other regional language is highly desirable.
Especially for NE position, prior relevant experience of working in the north-eastern region would be
preferred.
The positions are based out of various field locations including north-eastern region and would require
extensive travel es in rural locations. The salary is commensurable with current salary, experience and
industry standards.
The selected candidate will be offered Project Executive, Business Manager or Senior Business Manager
position depending on the quality of experience and academic background.