Job Description

Procurement Strategy & Market Intelligence

• Develop crop-season procurement strategies and identify optimal buying windows based on harvest cycles, weather, demand, inventory, and cash flow.
• Recommend paddy varieties, purchase timing, and buying volume to support milling profitability.
• Monitor farm-gate prices, trader prices, mill prices, export prices, competitor activity, government policies, exchange rates, and freight.
• Prepare daily market reports, weekly outlooks, and monthly price forecasts.

Quality, Supplier & Commercial Management

• Evaluate paddy quality indicators such as moisture, foreign matter, damaged grain, chalkiness, grain length, and head rice potential.
• Recommend purchases based on expected milling yield and profitability, not purchase price alone.
• Build relationships with farmers, cooperatives, aggregators, traders, and drying facilities.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, delivery schedules, quality claims, and contracts.

Margin Optimization, Analytics & Coordination

• Work with Production, Finance, Sales, Logistics, Quality, and Warehouse teams to maximize gross contribution.
• Evaluate procurement decisions based on total milling margin, including purchase cost, drying loss, recovery, by-product value, and selling price.
• Develop procurement insights related to savings, supplier performance, yield by supplier, inventory ageing, and forecast accuracy.
• Improve procurement SOPs, traceability, digital procurement systems, supplier scorecards, and supplier base.

Job Requirement

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness, Supply Chain, Business, Food Science, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in paddy, rice, grain, or agricultural commodity procurement, including at least 3 years in commercial procurement or sourcing with direct responsibility for procurement decisions.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of paddy procurement, rice milling, agricultural commodity sourcing, market intelligence, supplier development, and inventory strategy.
• Ability to evaluate paddy quality, milling yield, total milling margin, drying loss, recovery, by-product value, and profitability.
• Strong negotiation, procurement analytics, supplier relationship management, and commercial decision-making skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel for procurement analysis.

Language / Other Requirements

• Experience sourcing from farmers, traders, cooperatives, and aggregators in Vietnam is highly preferred.
• Experience working with rice mills or grain processing businesses is a significant advantage.
• Ability to travel extensively across the Mekong Delta.

Personality & Attitude

• Commercially driven and margin-focused.
• Analytical, proactive, and detail-oriented in procurement decisions.
• Strong ownership in supplier development and sourcing performance.
• Able to coordinate effectively with cross-functional teams and work in a field-based procurement environment.