Principal Duties and Responsibilities The Director will be responsible to:
• Develop the strategy for X’s agriculture business across value chain;
• Identify and develop export markets for agriculture;
• Set-up an effective and efficient organisation;
• Prepare detail business plans and implement it.

The following are the KPI’s that would for this position:
• Strategy development and execution (20%);
• Business plan development and execution (30%);
• Development of a strong team with the required qualifications to execute the business plan successfully (15%);
• Responsibility for P&L (25%)
• Working effectively with other X business and corporate units (10%);

The specific duties of this role are as to:
• Identify export market potential in the short and midterm.
• Assess different opportunities across value-chain based on the potential market.
• Up-stream,
• Mid-stream,
• Downstream
• Assess competitors in each opportunity across value-chain.
• Prepare a detailed SWOT analysis.
• Assess risks, problems and issues across value-chain.
• Compute profit margin in each opportunity across value-chain.
• Review law, regulation and government incentives with respect to the agricultural sector.
• Assess investment requirements in each opportunity across value-chain.
• Assess technology requirements in each opportunity across value-chain.
• Define the mission and vision for X’s agriculture business.
• Define X’s position and branding strategy for its agriculture business
• Develop a detailed go to market strategy which includes amongst others Unique Selling Point (USP), distribution plans, customer strategies, differentiation strategy
• Develop five-year Pro-forma financial statements (P&L, Cashflow and Balance Sheet).
• Identify investments that may be required including sources of capital and D/E ratio.
• Compute investment return matrices including payback period, Return on Investment (ROI) and IRR.
• Estimate working capital required.
• Raising of capital (debt and/or equity) from either local or international markets.
• Develop divestment, M&A and exit strategies.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum Master’s Degree in Agriculture, Economics, Development Studies, Business Administration or Management.
• Minimum fifteen years of experience in the agriculture sector in ASEAN including significant experience in Myanmar agriculture sector.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of past and current trends in Agriculture industry. Experience in working with private sector investment projects in agriculture.
• Substantive experience in leading and managing teams.
• Proven ability to deliver and perform with minimum supervision.
• Substantive experience in budgeting and financial management.
• Documented writing ability. Documented proposal writing and technical writing ability and successful project design experience.
• The position will require both local and overseas travel and applicant should be willing to travel on short notice.