Vice President - Livestock

Job description / Role

Strategic planning & policy formulation:
- Lead the livestock department strategic planning process in consultation with Senior Managers of Breeder, Hatchery and Broiler farms
- Translate the strategic game plan into annual business plan and budget for the Livestock department
- Contribute to strategy formulation and execution at the SBU level
- Formulate and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures, protocols and policies for effective functioning of the livestock department.

Achieving Supply Chain Adequacy:
- Direct the livestock operations to ensure meeting production goals, including throughput, productivity, cost, and quality.
- Formulate initiatives to increase the in-house production capacity for livestock and to reduce dependency on contract farms.
- Coordinate with Senior Managers of breeder, broiler and hatcheries to bring out process improvements in the operations.
- Actively challenge and try to minimize the overall cost of operation for farms to ensure live chicken at optimal cost to PPP.
- Direct the design of an efficient maintenance system to minimize the downtime for farm operations.
- Plan, budget and direct capacity expansion plans for livestock department in line with the capacity expansions plans of demand driving departments (PPP and Sales and Marketing).
- Coordinate with external consultants and poultry experts and gather key inputs to maximize quality of produce (average live chicken weight, profiles, health etc.) and to minimize mortality and other losses.
- Design initiatives to maximize on time demand fulfillment to internal customers by ensuring coordination between the various farms.

Resource Allocation & Manpower management:
- Prepare a manpower plan in line with the overall plan for the year.
- Actively engage in recruiting, training and allocating resources to the sub departments within Livestock.
- Plan and manage resource requirements and utilization according to agreed budgets. Ensure adequate manpower to suit departments strategy.
- Assess the requirement for training systems for live stock team and implement relevant training systems.
- Establish employee goals and conduct employee incentive reviews.
- Conceptualize and develop safety policies and procedures to ensure safety during operations.

Quality, Hygiene & safety:
- Ensure that the live stock team adheres to all hygiene and safety standards.
- Devise and approve quality management processes with the help of Quality Assurance team.

Reporting
- Report as per agreed frequency on BSC (SMART) using relevant performance measures.
- Manage relevant reporting of management and financial information for the live stock department.

Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Poultry Management.
- 12 years experience in poultry farm operations, with about 4 years experience in managerial roles in K.S.A. or MENA region.

Job specific Skills:
- Strong understanding of the poultry farm operations.
- Strong understanding of the KSA poultry market.

Generic Skills:
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office ( MS-Excel, MS- PowerPoint , MS- Word and MS - Outlook)
- Working knowledge of Arabic and English languages.

About the Company

Arasco, The Arabian Agriculture Services Company, was founded in 1982 with a vision to supply the budding animal farm sector with the necessary products and services for intensive growth. Its first full feedmilling plant, based in Al-kharj, was and still remains a state-of-the-art technology backed by world class nutritionists and veterinarians. It has served as a catalyst (if not the driving instrument) for the fantastic growth of the dairy and poultry industries in its areas of operations. Spurred by this success, Arasco continued to grow in scope, capacity and excellence with vertical and horizontal expansions to cover the wide spectrum of agro and food industries with quality products and services. Today Arasco is an amalgam of synergized businesses which include:

• Animal feed production (2 Feed mills)
• Corn milling and refining (Starch & Glucose) and feed by-products
• DCP production (Archem)
• Production, processing and distribution of meat products and poultry breeds (Intaj)
• Bulk materials handling, storage and distribution
• Cold storage services
• Analytical and technical services (IDAC)
• Agrochemicals trade and services (Alemar)

These business entities operate in unison and are served with the latest ERP and communication systems, in addition to central sales and marketing teams at Head Office and specialized teams in each of the units.