Agriculture Project Manager (Farming)

Strata Results Recruitment; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Strata Results Group is seeking an experienced Agriculture Project Manager to lead the planning and delivery of a coconut supply program in Croydon, Melbourne. You will oversee farmer services, field staff and buying stations, coordinating supplier relationships and transaction processes.

The role focuses on reliable coconut supply, data integrity and seamless payments, with coordination across CRM, identity management and digital payments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in project management within agriculture, rural supply-chain or farmer services.
• Experience coordinating field staff, station operations and vendor contracts.
• Knowledge of CRM, payments workflows and data quality controls.
• Strong leadership across geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage scope, schedule, budget and risk on medium to large projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of farmer services, field staff and buying-station ops.
• Coordinate harvest schedules, registrations and data collection with farming networks.
• Oversee CRM, identity management and eWallet workflow readiness.
• Manage budgets, dependencies and contractor performance.
• Engage stakeholders, negotiate with partners and report progress.

Skills

Project management

Agriculture projects

Stakeholder engagement

Budgeting

Risk management

Team leadership

Scheduling

Negotiation

Tools

SAP CRM

eWallet

Identity management

Job description

Further Details:

• Location: Croydon, Melbourne

• Position Type: Full-Time

• Work Arrangement: Hybrid

• Start Date: ASAP

Who we are:

Strata Results Group is a boutique and personalised consultancy offering strategy and business transformation services.

SRG has a proven track record for assisting iconic local and global organisations to achieve their business objectives and outcomes on time and within budget. Our key capabilities are, but not limited to include:

• Strategy Planning

• Program Delivery

• Process Optimisation

• Recruitment

All our capabilities are backed by specialists and technology leaders who are experienced, and up to speed with the industry sector’s common pain points, best-practice operations, regulatory requirements, and obligations.

What we are looking for:

The role is to manage the implementation of a division of the client that will need to ID, onboard, training and eventually manage farmers. This will be achieved by using the existing government structures in the area.

We are seeking an experienced Agriculture Project Manager to lead the planning and delivery of a farmer services, field staff and buying station operations project focused on reliable coconut supply.

You will oversee the delivery of farmer services, field staff and buying station operations, aligning farmer support, coconut supply and transaction processes. The operating model includes:

• Ten municipality leads, approximately 60 field staff and 13 mobile buying stations; three stations also support coconut fibre collection and finished-twine receiving.

• Field teams that build farmer relationships, collect registration and farm data, provide agricultural advice and coordinate harvest schedules.

• Buying stations that receive and check deliveries, trigger eWallet payments, distribute fertiliser and seedlings, and report supply or quality issues.

Your focus will be dependable coconut supply, trusted farmer relationships and accurate transactions, with clear separation between farmer support and identity approval, pricing and payment responsibilities.

You will coordinate field, station, finance and technology teams, manage project scope, schedule and budget, and oversee operational readiness across SAP CRM, identity management and eWallet workflows.

Key Skills and Experience:

• At least 8 years’ project management experience, including delivery of agricultural, farmer services or rural supply-chain projects.

• Practical understanding of farmer engagement and agricultural advisory services, registration data collection and harvest coordination.

• Strong project management capability across planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, procurement and reporting.

• Experience with agricultural buying stations, produce collection or farmer-service networks; coconut supply-chain experience is highly regarded.

• Ability to coordinate operational workflows and system readiness across CRM, identity management and digital payments; SAP CRM and eWallet experience is desirable.

• Proven ability to manage scope, quality, dependencies and contractors on medium- to large-scale projects.

• Experience aligning harvest schedules, field activities and buying-station capacity to maintain reliable agricultural supply.

• Strong leadership skills, including coordination of geographically dispersed field teams, local leads and station personnel.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills.

• Understanding of data quality, farmer information privacy, transaction controls and separation of duties across support, approvals, pricing and payments.