Forestry Manager – Experience with TIMO's, REITs companies
Category - Forestry Mgr Mexico- Build New Opportunities
Position Purpose
The role will support the Global Procurement leadership in finding, contracting, and developing projects with Timber Investment Management Organizations (TIMO's), Timberland Real‐Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Plantation Management Companies for the competitive supply of timber into sawmills. The role will be supporting the project management of a forestry and industrial project in Tabasco Mexico.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in forestry, Natural Resource Management, Environmental science, Forest Engineering
- Mandatory experience with TIMO discussions with suppliers, negotiate price & payment terms and drive costs down monthly with each supplier not on a flex agreement. Get white wood quotes or similar Plantation Management company.
- Advanced understanding of timberland investment, finance, and management processes.
- Experience working with institutional investors, understanding the economics of plantation management.
- Field experience: Work experience in international matrix organizations across functions and cultures.
- Ability to evaluate various potential Procurement activities and prioritize initiatives to gain maximum benefit within the region of responsibility.
- Experience in project management.
Key Accountabilities – What you will do
- Deliver timber‐related projects identified by the general office on time.
- Help develop new sources of supply globally.
- Identify opportunities to partner with TIMO's, REIT's and Plantation Management Companies.
- Map the landscape of TIMO's, REITs and Plantation Management Companies.
- Assess and recommend the selected suppliers for timber covering multiple regions in the Americas (USA, Canada, Central and South America).
- Support the execution of contracts or SLA with the chosen partners.
- Forestry and sawmilling project management.
- Understand forest management and finances.
- Communication skills both to manage a team effectively and to promote their work within the organization.
- Drive for change with a commitment to future excellence within the Procurement function.
- Persuasive communication and influencing skills to act as an advocate for Procurement.
- Executive‐level relationship management and positioning, communicating at the regional and global level.
- Ability to quickly understand business users needs and relate them to Procurement capabilities.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and handle complexity and interact at a senior level.
- Strong business acumen to evaluate new opportunities and structure and negotiate deals from a regional perspective.
- Ability to think "outside the box" and develop new strategic programs that challenge the status quo.
Seniority level
Executive
Employment type
Full‐time
Job function & Industries
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage and Forestry and Logging
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