Background
Tatu Coffee Company Limited is one of Kenya's leading specialty coffee producers, with a heritage spanning more than 100 years.Owned by Rendeavour, the developer of Tatu City, the company cultivates premium Arabica coffee across more than 6,500 acres of Rainforest Alliance Certified estates in Kenya's fertile highlands.
Tatu Coffee supplies specialty coffee to leading roasters and buyers across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, combining sustainable farming practices with world-class processing to produce award-winning Kenyan coffee. The estates also play a significant role in supporting local communities through employment, environmental stewardship and responsible agricultural practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Ownership and implementation of all aspects of growing coffee, harvesting, processing, drying, sorting, storage, and transport, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards, promoting the use of modern technological solutions in farming operations.
- Ability to identify pests and diseases and implement timely control measures.
- Mobilize workers for field work and to harvest in time.
- Follow and implement Safety Standards 100% within boundary of the estate and scope of entire workday including transport outside farm areas.
- Complete daily/weekly/monthly data capture and reporting without errors.
- Check and ensure to complete all payment payrolls in time.
- Implement and maintain stringent quality control systems throughout the production process, guaranteeing the exceptional quality of the final coffee product.
- Manage budgets, avoid/control wasteful costs, identify areas for efficiency gains, drive profitability across the coffee estate.
- Good control of stocks of chemicals, all farm inputs, coffee stocks and manpower.
- Adhere to established environmental sustainability initiatives, including responsible land management, water conservation, and ethical farming practices.
- Manage and motivate a high-performing team of estate staff, supervisors, workers processing team and workshop/drivers.
- Foster positive relationships with local communities, government agencies, and other stakeholders within the coffee industry.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Agribusiness.
- Minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience in agribusiness management, with at least 5 years of direct experience in coffee production.
- In-depth knowledge of coffee cultivation, processing techniques, quality standards, and Familiarity with sustainability certification programs is an advantage.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire teams, manage complex projects, and drive results.
- Proven financial management skills, including farm level budgeting, cost analysis.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including fluency in English and Swahili.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to escalate potential future problems well ahead of time to management.
- Pest and disease management.
- Ability to evaluate success in coffee production climate change and its impact on coffee production.
- Capability to ensure soil health and fertility for optimum coffee production.
- Experience with Kenyan coffee varieties.
- Knowledge of what is forced labor, child labor, workplace violence, sexual harassment and corruption.
- CBA/Labor act.
- Ensuring safety in workplace.
- Ability to motivate and inspire team/ employees.
- Good understanding of coffee nutritional feeding program/regime.
- Budget and implementation.
- Irrigation- ability to determine need for irrigation/water requirement.
- Awareness of main challenges in coffee production and how to deal with them.
- Cost cutting measures where necessary.
- High standard of Wet processing
- Awareness of Environment-Regenerative and sustainable agriculture.