Market & Value Chain Development Consultant

Qualification and Experience

• An Agribusiness, Agriculture Marketing or Business Development Expert with MBA/ PGDBM having 08 - 10 years of experience in handling similar nature of assignment.
• Experience in sales and promoting market linkages with institutional buyers, conducting market assessment studies.
• Have worked towards establishing market linkages for farmer collectives such as FPOs/ Cooperatives, etc.
• Experience of working in North-Eastern states will be an added advantage

Location

Guwahati, Assam

Scope of Work

• Work on the market / business development interventions for selected agri-food produce & value-added products
• Provide operational support to producer enterprises for improving the price realized by member-producers in selected agri-food produce
• Conceptualize the design of projects aimed to address gaps in key agri value chain infrastructure
• Development of DPRs with detailed techno-commercial inputs to be submitted to relevant government agencies and funding agencies
• Study and assess the suitability of blended finance approaches and mechanisms to enable access to innovative financing for proposed projects for agri value chain infrastructure development in potential clusters
• Organize and facilitate consultative exercises (events, workshops etc.) in partnership with various funding agencies and other relevant sources of financing / investments for agri transformation
• Act as an effective interface between the producer enterprises and the private players representing various categories of buyers
• Ensure execution of business transactions between targeted buyers and producer enterprises for the selected agri-food produce & value-added products
• Engage buyers and supply chain actors for catalyzing and demonstrating a collaborative and equitable ecosystem which offers high value to producer enterprises for selected agri-food produce & value-added products.
• Support team in identifying locations for establishment of specialized/ advanced facilities in post-harvest management and value addition for the targeted agri-food produce
• Map the existing facilities for post-harvest management and highlight key infrastructural gaps for such utilization of agri-food value addition across the NER
• Assist producer enterprises in meeting the quality / product specifications, food safety compliances and necessary SOPs of strategic buyers of targeted agri-food produce
• Conduct training and orientation of the project team & producer enterprise representatives on key aspects of post-harvest management, value addition & quality assurance in targeted agri-food produce
• Ensure effective alignment / coordination between the supply side and the demand side of targeted agri-food produce in terms of pricing, quality requirements, delivery schedule and all key terms of transaction between producer enterprises and strategic buyers identified for targeted agri-food produce
• Assist the key representatives of producer enterprises to develop vital understanding on planning and execution of commercial transactions (through simulation or what-if exercises in targeted agri-food produce)