Friday, June 29, 2012

Consultant - Common Dates Cold Store Facility (Principal Resource Person - Business Planner)

Relevant Experience:

Masters in business, finance, or marketing, preferably a Chartered Accountant (CA)/Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)At least five years of national/international professional work experience in business plan development/strategy development/enterprise solutionsExcellent English written and verbal communication skillsExcellent report writing skillsAbility to present business case in front of investors/stakeholdersAbility to speak regional languages (Sindhi/Urdu) preferred

Job Description:

All fruits and vegetables require specialized post-harvest treatments, appropriate temperature, and relative humidity for their storage, which most of the existing cold storage facilities in Pakistan lack. As a result, a cold storage facility in Khairpur district is one of the major infrastructure requirements for the dates sector. Through this effort, the project will ensure the increased availability and improved quality of high value fresh dates for both export and local sale, which would otherwise perish or deteriorate in terms of low quality and fetch lower prices. A majority of Pakistan’s dates exports is used in liquor extraction, finding its way into low-end markets for industrial use. The proposed cold storage facility will work as a facilitation point which will store multiple horticulture products beyond the date season to make it a commercially viable venture, though the major clientele for this business will be the farmers and processors of dates.

Currently, there is no support initiative from any governmental and/or donor agency for the establishment of cold storage facilities in Khairpur district for dates and/or any other horticulture sector. Keeping in view the seasonal cycle of dates, there are some significant impediments/constraints in the dates sector in Khairpur.

The issues related to the cold chain in dates sector could be addressed by providing and establishing a large state of the art cold storage facility for date palm farmers, processors, and traders. Given this background, the Project is working to develop a business plan for a common cold storage facility and seeks a highly qualified team of consultants consisting of a business planner/feasibility expert and a cold chain development specialist to develop a comprehensive and rationalized business plan required to determine facility area, layout plan, capital cost, operational cost, return on investment (ROI), and related business operations parameters to make this assistance self-sustaining and profitable.

The Consultant(s) shall work as a Principal Resource Person (Business Planner) to develop a comprehensive business plan along with technical and financial details for the design and development of a common cold store facility in Khairpur district. The assignment carried forward is to determine and consolidate all capital costs, running costs, and cash flows of the common cold store facility. Furthermore, the consultant shall use his/her education, experience, knowledge of international best practices, and additional understanding gleaned to accomplish the following: 

Conduct rapid assessment for the identification of a cold storage facility, expected demand, along with a rationalized business case for the development of a common dates cold store facility.Develop comprehensive business plan comprised of the overall project costs, operations cost, and business sustainabilityAnalysis of market potential by considering the yearly business trends.Rental calculation mechanism for proposed cold storage facility as a primary source for revenue generation.Product process flow.Conduct financial assessments to identify capital costFinalization of recommendations for the type of machinery, insulation material, technical lay out plans, drawings, etc. with the assistance of Cold Value Chain Specialist.Human resource requirements along with projected payroll costs for at least five years.Furniture and office equipment costs as a part of business plan.Refrigerator trucks estimated cost inclusive of capital costs, running costs, and maintenance costs.Prepare comprehensive business plan detailing all the defined parameters along with financials for at least five years to identify profitability, sustainability, and rationalized business proposition.Prepare and present business plan presentation in front of the Project management to deliver and communicate the value proposition of the activity.

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