Farm Portfolio Executive

About the role

You are given one farm project and you are responsible for everything that happens on it. A project is roughly 50 units, a mix of half acre and one acre plots, with the plantation already done. From that point on the schedule is yours, the labour is yours, the condition of the crop is yours and the record of what was done is yours.

This is a supervisory role. The physical work is done by a labour team. Your job is to decide what needs doing, work out how many hands and what equipment it takes, brief the team, and then check that what you planned actually happened. You do not carry tools and you do not move machinery around yourself.

Your day splits between the field and the farm office. In the field you are walking the plots, reading the crop, directing the team and inspecting finished work. In the office you are planning tomorrow before today ends, raising labour and material requirements ahead of time, and keeping the records the rest of the company runs on. Both halves matter. A project that looks good but has no records behind it is a project nobody else can manage.

You report to a Farm Supervisor. When something is beyond routine, a disease you cannot place or a crop that is not responding, you raise it and the plant doctor prescribes. You carry out what is prescribed.

If you come in with enough experience you join as a senior, carry a second project, and take responsibility for training a junior executive to run theirs.

You will be judged on one number: plant mortality on your project. Everything else exists to keep it low.

What you would do

• Set the irrigation schedule for the project and verify it is being followed
• Plan manure application cycles and confirm they are completed on time
• Set deweeding and pruning cycles and track completion against them
• Walk the project regularly to spot pest pressure and disease early
• Direct the application of pesticides and treatments as prescribed by the plant doctor
• Plan the next day’s work before the current day ends
• Allocate labour across the tasks on your project and brief them
• Decide how many hands each job needs and raise the requirement in advance
• Allocate equipment to the team and account for its return to the machinery manager
• Inspect completed work and send it back when it is not up to standard
• Record every job carried out and report it daily through the company app
• Raise material, labour and equipment requirements ahead of need, not on the day

What we are looking for

• A diploma or degree in agriculture or horticulture, or equivalent hands-on farm experience
• Two years or more supervising field operations, preferably plantation or horticulture
• Able to recognise common pests and plant disease on sight
• Able to plan a work schedule and hold a labour team to it
• Comfortable with paperwork and daily reporting, because half the job is records
• Willing to be based on the farm full time
• Fluent in the local language for labour management
• Comfortable using a smartphone and a laptop for daily reporting

What you can count on

How we hire

1. Step 1Apply in two minutesYour name, your mobile number and your resume. If you have no role in mind, leave your details in the talent pool instead and we will call when something fits.
2. Step 2A call from HRWe call to understand what you have done and what you want to do next, and to answer whatever you want to ask us.
3. Step 3The interviewWith HR and the manager for the role. If you are selected, a founder interview follows before the offer.
4. Step 4The offerIf it is a fit, HR makes you an offer setting out the role, the pay and the start date, and goes through it with you before you decide.

About Hebbevu

Hebbevu farms 1200+ acres without chemicals and looks after 2000+ desi cattle, and has delivered 19+ managed farmland projects for 1600+ co-farmers. Three brands sit on that: Hebbevu Managed Farmland at the farms in Penukonda, Hebbevu Fresh in the factory and the stores around Bengaluru, and Hebbevu Genetics with the cattle.