BARLEY PROCUREMENT MANAGER BEFR

Missions essentielles
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Your mission

As our Barley Procurement Manager BeFra,

you will execute the malting barley procurement strategy for Belgium and

France, ensuring a reliable and cost\-effective supply that meets plant and

customer needs, quality requirements, and budget targets.

This is an operationally driven role,

focused on daily market activities, contracting, logistics optimization, and

maintaining plant coverage, while monitoring and reporting local physical and

financial risks.

You will actively contribute to the overall

procurement strategy in close collaboration with the Continental Barley

Procurement Manager.

Key Responsibilities

As our Barley Procurement Manager BeFra your

role will involve:

Procurement Strategy \& Financial

Performance

• Develop and execute the BeFra procurement strategy in

collaboration with the Continental Barley Procurement Manager.

• Achieve budgeted Barley P\&L targets (global and local

impact) and support Budget and Latest Estimate (LE) processes/cycles.

• Ensuring sensitivity to “profit on barley” objectives and

optimize purchasing decisions.

Market Execution \& Contract

Management

• Execute daily market activities, including supplier

negotiations, local hedging, and contracting within the boundaries and

strategic direction set by the Regional Manager.

• Negotiate and close physical contracts with merchants,

cooperatives, and brokers, ensuring accurate and timely execution and

follow\-up of the barley contract book.

Market Intelligence \& Reporting

• Daily monitoring of Europe’s

grain markets and dissemination of relevant market data internally.

• Perform mark\-to\-market analysis, track positions, and report

P\&L of Barley and Logistics Book on a monthly basis.

• Produce daily and ad hoc reporting on barley positions,

pricing, and market trends.

Supply Coverage \& Logistics

Optimization

• Ensure optimal plant coverage for BeFra (avoiding shortages or

excess).

• Optimize logistics and purchasing costs across the barley

supply chain.

• Being a key contributor to

Supply and Demand Analysis for the region.
Sustainability \& Quality

• Deliver committed SAI\-equivalent and regenerative barley

volumes in line with group targets.

• Ensuring procurement in BeFra

region aligns with Boortmalt’s sustainability targets, including SAI and

Regenerative grown barley, to align with emission reduction objectives.

• Implementing in collaboration

with Quality Team supplier evaluation programs to encourage quality,

sustainability, and innovation for BeFra region.
Stakeholder Collaboration \&

Relationships

• Build and maintain strong relationships with external suppliers

(merchants, cooperatives, storage partners, malting barley growers’

groups, farmers’ organizations).

• Act as a key decision taker for barley side in S\&OP,

aligning with Supply Chain and Quality to meet production and customer

requirements (volumes/quality).

• Collaborating with Spain

procurement, when it affects and involves imports from other countries, such as

France, Denmark or UK.
Innovation \& Development Support

• Supporting innovation team with sourcing of all new products

(Lentils, peas, rye, oats, etc.).

• Supporting the follow\-up of BeFra's new varieties trials and

pilots program setting, collaborating with Regional Manager and Global

Variety Development Manager.
Master recherché
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Profile / required Skills

• Degree level in Agriculture,

Agribusiness, Economics, or Commodities Trading (preferable).

• Additional training in Risk

Management or Supply Chain Management is a plus.

• Minimum 5 to 10 years work

experience in procurement or trading; knowledge of agricultural markets is a

must. Familiar working with volatile and cash markets, working with diverse

groups, understanding accounting and inventory management, negotiation skills.

• Fluent in English and French is

a must. Spanish, Dutch or German are a plus.

• Knowledge in Procurement ERPs

and Grain Market Analysis software's are mandatory.

• Based in Antwerp, Belgium with

frequent travel to barley growing regions, depending on business needs.

Trésor des Masters of Malt
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Advantages

We offer an attractive salary and benefits

package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities

internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on

flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing. We live our

values, putting people at the heart of what we do.

“Strive” \- our ambition is to be the

best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve

the highest level.

“Care” \- our strength is magnificent

when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We

encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that

Diversity makes us stronger.

“Inspire” \- We adopt a long\-term

orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and

digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.

“Explore” – thinking out of the box

and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like

challenging the status quo to develop full potential.

L'entreprise
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Présentation
BOORTMALT is a global malting company with a 3 million tonnes production capacity. The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt's expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers, distillers, and food industries, who rely on the supply of top\-quality barley malts.

The Boortmalt Group is a fully owned subsidiary of the agricultural and agribusiness cooperative Axereal. Our relationship with Axereal, Europe's largest grain cooperative, ensures us access to high\-quality barley year\-round.

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