Fertilizer & Digestate Product Manager

Role Summary

Convert digestate and biochar into standardised, agronomically useful and commercially validated fertiliser and soil-improvement products.

KEY SUCCESS MEASURES

• Agronomically validated product formulations.
• Consistent product quality and registration readiness.
• Reduced purchased-fertiliser cost and/or validated local sales

**RECRUITMENT PRINCIPLE** We are looking first and foremost for hands-on implementers with a proven record of taking real industrial or infrastructure projects from planning through procurement, construction, commissioning and operation.

The roles are part of an international renewable-energy, circular-economy, biorefining and industrial side-stream utilisation investment programme with Côte dIvoire as the principal implementation country. The portfolio includes both fast-start production projects and later large-scale industrial investments.

**LANGUAGE SKILLS** A reasonable level of working English is essential. French language skills are a major advantage.

**EXPECTED WORKING STYLE**

• Practical, decisive and delivery-oriented.
• Fact-based, using measurable results and documented data.
• Prepared to challenge supplier assumptions and verify operating references.
• Able to work in a multicultural environment and build local capability.
• Understands that pilot testing, customer qualification and phased scale-up are central risk-management tools.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate digestate separation, concentration, drying and granulation options.
• Develop biochar + digestate blends.
• Lead NPK/nutrient analysis and agronomic field trials.
• Define product quality, registration and packaging requirements.
• Optimise own-use versus local-market sales.
• Integrate nutrient mass balance into the agriculture programme.

Requirements

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND CAPABILITY

• Experience in fertilisers, digestate, agronomy, biomass or organic soil-improvement products.
• Product-development and pilot experience.
• Understanding of nutrient analysis and agronomic performance.
• Practical commercialisation mindset.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Fertiliser-granulation experience.
• Tropical-agriculture experience.
• Knowledge of biochar-blended products.

Employment form, work location and travel requirements will be defined role by role. Some positions may begin in Finland or elsewhere in Europe, but several key roles will require significant presence in Côte dIvoire during implementation phases.