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Specifically, the Production Manager shall be responsible for but not limited to the following:

Strategic Planning & Regulatory Compliance

• Production Planning: Lead the seasonal planning process (Season A & B) by forecasting demand and managing the procurement of foundation seeds from government or foreign suppliers.
• Regulatory Management: Act as the primary liaison with national seed authorities (e.g., NARO, MAAIF). Ensure all seed lots undergo required inspections and receive necessary certification for market release.
• Budgeting: Develop and manage the production budget, optimizing costs for labor, inputs, and processing machinery maintenance.

Field Operations Oversight

• Contract Farmer Strategy: Oversee the recruitment and management of the contract farmer network. Review and validate the recruitment plans proposed by Seed Production Officers.
• Quality Assurance Audits: Conduct high-level audits of the contract farmer pool to validate field reports, ensure adherence to SOPs, and verify yield estimates.
• Extension Management: Ensure the field team effectively delivers training protocols to farmers to maximize yield and quality.

 Digital Systems & Data Integrity

• Data System Management: Act as the system owner for production data. Ensure 100% accuracy in the ERP system (Odoo) and farmer management system (eProd) regarding farmer contracts, land sizes, and estimated yields.
• Traceability: Enforce a strict traceability system, ensuring every batch of processed seed can be linked back to its specific grower and foundation seed lot.

 Processing Plant & Inventory Operations

• Plant Operations: Oversee the entire post-harvest workflow (drying, shelling, sorting, and treating). Ensure machinery is maintained and operational to minimize downtime during peak intake.
• Labor Management: Plan and supervise the recruitment of seasonal casual labor for manual sorting and grading, ensuring fair payment practices and safety compliance
• Inventory Control: Collaborate with the Inventory Officer to monitor stock levels of packaging materials and finished seeds to prevent stock outs.

 Quality Assurance

• SOP Enforcement: Enforce strict adherence to quality enforcement parameters across all production verticals.
• Process Improvement: Analyze post-season performance data to identify bottlenecks and implement corrective actions for future seasons

Safeguarding responsibilities: 

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the enterprise’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Establish a safeguarding culture across all levels of the enterprise by implementing BRAC International’s Safeguarding Policy, in collaboration with BRAC International’s Gender and Safeguarding team.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
•  Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Responsible for ensuring team members are appropriately trained, supported and have access to resources regarding issues that are identified and actioned in accordance with the safeguarding policy and procedure.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.