Origin Coffee Trainer

Job description

Job Summary: You will gain practical exposure through job rotations, blended learning, mentoring and coaching from leaders and experts, corporate training, and special projects.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Through these rotational assignments, you will be exposed to:
• Procurement & Quality: sourcing, supplier relations, cupping, grading, built on long-term producer relationships grounded in Service and Excellence.
• Sustainability & Compliance: traceability, certifications, ESG, EUDR, reflecting our commitment to Integrity and Responsibility
• Trading & Market Analysis: futures & options, price risk, supply and demand trends, developing the ability to make sound commercial calls.
• Logistics & Export Operations: shipment planning, documentation, customer delivery, reinforcing accountability and operational excellence.
• Finance & Accounting: margin and cost analysis, working capital and trade finance flows, P&L computation, capital expenditure, building the financial discipline behind sound commercial decisions.
• Capstone Project: Every trainee closes out the program with a capstone project – a real business challenge you identify, develop, and present to senior leadership.
• Past examples of the kind of impact this can have include growing sales in a specific market, deploying technology to improve operational efficiencies, or developing a sustainability initiative that improves the livelihoods of coffee farmers in your origin.
• The capstone is your chance to demonstrate the commercial judgment and ownership expected of NKG’s future leaders.

What’s In It For You

• Structured Career Development: Benefit from a structured 24-month programme designed to accelerate professional growth through hands-on experience, skills development and networking and a clear path toward management roles within NKG – for those with the courage to lead and the service mindset to earn it.
• Meaningful Work from Day One: Contribute to projects that strengthen coffee quality, improve operational efficiency, support sustainable sourcing, and create value for farmers and NKG customers across the coffee value chain.

International Exposure

• A defining feature of the program – you will spend time embedded in an NKG destination-market office abroad, seeing the coffee journey from the buyer’s side of the table.
• This placement will give you first-hand insight into how roasters and customers evaluate quality, negotiate contracts, and plan purchasing and how the sourcing, quality, and logistics decisions made at origin ripple through to their outcomes.
• You will work alongside NKG’s trading, sales, and logistics teams in that market, building the cross-border relationships and commercial perspective that future origin leaders need to bridge producer and customer priorities effectively.
• You will finally return to your home origin with a sharper, end-to-end view of the coffee value chain.
• Structured Mentorship & Coaching: Learn from experienced NKG leaders and coffee supply chain experts, gaining practical guidance across sourcing, trade, quality, logistics, operations, and customer delivery.
• NKG Leadership Principles: You will complete a basic leadership learning path that introduces the NKG Leadership Principles grounded in our NKG’s values of Service, Excellence, Integrity, Responsibility, Respect, and Courage.
• The focus will be on self-leadership, collaboration, feedback, accountability, ownership and leading in line with NKG’s shared principles.
• Network and industry exposure: Build meaningful connections and experience a dynamic and diverse work environment at the heart of East Africa’s coffee industry, with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact across the coffee value chain.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Recent Graduate (within 2 years) in Agribusiness, Economics, or Finance; a master’s degree is an added benefit
• A maximum of 2 years’ working experience
• Strong leadership potential to grow into future leadership roles within NKG’s coffee supply chain and origin operations.
• Demonstrated integrity and professionalism in prior academic or work settings
• Willingness to be based in-country (Kenya, Tanzania, or Uganda) with regional and international travel
• Fluency in English. Proficiency in Kiswahili or Luganda is an added advantage. If not proficient, a willingness to learn is a must.
• What Will Make You Succeed
• Exceptional interpersonal skills – this is a highly relationship-driven business, and success depends on building trust with producers, partners and customers
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• A curious, strong learning mindset and a genuine interest in coffee and commodity markets
• Adaptable, resilient, and ready to work across cultures and geographies with respect for diverse teams
• Our staff appreciates
• International: Working in an international atmosphere in a growing and progressive company
• Benefits: An attractive salary with extra benefits
• Flexibility: Flexible working hours including a mobile work option

About Organisation

Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is the world’s leading green coffee services group, consisting of 50 companies across 26 countries and including more than 2,600 colleagues working within exporters, importers, farms, mills and services.

Requirements

bachelor degree 24