As a Senior Agronomist, you will act on botanical supply-chain projects in multiple locations around the world, in the context of Taste and Well-being and Fragrance and Beauty Ingredients industries.

In this exciting role you will build, implementing, monitoring, improving, and reporting on a pipe of Raw Material Projects, in connection with several team members, from Research to Business, through Procurement. You will report to the Head of Agronomy, part of the Procurement Origination team, based in Avignon, France.

Your future position?

The Senior Agronomist is leading and contributing to projects within natural raw material supply-chains that bring value. These projects are targeting a pool of strategic botanicals that are prioritized by the organization for their high benefits and the challenges arising from their sourcing.

Operating on these supply-chains projects requires knowledge of “applied agronomy” to botanicals, including specific skills related to plant material selection schemes and breeding methodology.

You are comfortable with field work and project and partner management, in a diverse environment, at the crossing of research and science, raw material procurement, ingredient processing and business development.

In the context of botanical specialty supply-chains projects set up in a multicultural environment, you have to be curious. You must demonstrate a leadership profile.

We ask that you understand smallholder farming context and a interest for responsible farming practices that preserve people and nature, aligned with the purpose of the company.

The scope of the position is Global, with projects monitored around the world, field and business trips may represent up to +/- 30% of the time.

In this exciting role, you manage:

• Raw Material supply-chain projects management, which includes :

- Landscaping and establishing supply-chain diagnosis through literature and field trips

- Defining Project scope, deliverable and timeline, in connection with Business expectations

- Proposing actions, assessing feasibility, elaborating budget and resource needs, promoting the project for approval

- Implementing agreed activities within supply-chain, in collaboration with your partners, suppliers, and possibly 3rd party

- Monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on progress vs. goals defined

• Endorse of internal leadership on Plant Material and Breeding expertise

• Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement relating to Raw Material supply

• Use quality and economical performance in the context of Raw Material procurement activities

• Advocate and promote of sustainable farming practices related to regenerative agriculture, such as soil conservation, biodiversity preservation, responsible use of resources, and footprint mastering

• Contribute to the global field testing program set up to support the botanical investigation and performance improvement

• Represent the Agronomy department in multiple internal workgroups and possible external events (supply-chain audits, seminars, and conferences, professional organization and institutions, customer meetings)