State Project Manager-Operations ||Agriculture || Orissa || upto 15 LPA

State Project Manager-Operations ||Agriculture || Orissa || upto 15 LPA

Hiring with a deep-tech climate startup founded in 2023 that uses AI, satellite technology, and field operations to slash methane emissions from rice cultivation.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company helps turn traditional smallholder rice farming into a high-integrity source of water savings, farmer income, and carbon credits

Key Responsibilities:

1. External Partner Operations Management

Maintain strong relationship with implementation partners teams, at managerial and execution level.

Strategise solutions with implementation partners basis problems Continually build and update SOPs and systems to ensure performance.

Collaborate with local stakeholders involved in the program, including agri universities, government bodies, NGOs etc.

Daily standups with Ops Execution team, QA/QC team, and implementation partner's teams (at managerial and operational level).

Ability to create network of logistics providers, local resources to support tasks.

1. Internal Communications

Work with internal teams on carbon processes compliance, product, R&D to ensure smooth implementation and communication of improvements Work on smooth execution of inputs

distribution business in collaboration with inputs business head, and with support from inputs logistics team Daily/weekly analytics on performance on carbon processes, input distribution,

and offer insights to Ops Execution, Product and leadership.

Offer support on Science Ops, R&D ops, agronomic demos, etc.

1. Operational Execution and Leadership

Take initiative as a leader of the program, manage state level teams, project coordinators and field agents to ensure on-ground execution.

Building and maintaining granular task sheets and roadmaps, to ensure timeline and execution of projects are meeting requirements.

Drive farmer engagement programs through trainings, awareness campaigns and demonstration plots.

Oversee procurement, logistics and distribution of climate smart agri inputs to ensure availability and accessibility.

Ensure field agents are trained, and operating as per SOP, make quick corrections when deviations are observed.

Maintaining, updating and improving document repository of SOPs, Training Manuals, Processes

Build marketing material in coordination with on-ground teams to represent progress/success/wins basis data collected from fields

Create input market material for field agents, how to pitch to farmer, how to sell product, with SOPs + Video walkthroughs