About the position: The selected candidate will lead and implement the market development of root and tuber crops and drive the integration of potato and sweetpotato innovations across value chains through strategic public–private partnerships to accelerate scaling in South Asia. The position will focus on enhancing the efficiency, competitiveness, and sustainability of value chains by reducing post-harvest losses, improving product quality and value addition, strengthening market access and business linkages, and increasing returns for farmers and other value chain actors. With minimal supervision, the successful candidate will work closely with multidisciplinary teams across CIP and collaborate with public and private sector partners, including seed and processing companies, Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), Farmer Producer Groups (FPGs), agribusinesses, and other value chain stakeholders, to strengthen potato and sweetpotato value chains in South Asia. The role will also generate and translate market intelligence into actionable insights to inform CIP's breeding, seed systems,



and research-for-development programs, ensuring that innovations are aligned with market demand and industry needs.

Key responsibilities:

Lead the development and strengthening of potato and sweetpotato value chains in South Asia by integrating CIP technologies and innovations through market-led approaches, public-private partnerships, and commercialization strategies.
Desing, develop and implement market development strategies to strengthen aggregation, post-harvest and supply-chain management, cold chain infrastructure, storage, processing, branding, value addition, market access, and commercialization, improving value chain efficiency and competitiveness.
Build and strengthen strategic partnerships with seed companies, processors, retailers, exporters, FPOs, FPGs, financial institutions, government agencies, and development partners to accelerate technology adoption, investment, an

📌 Associate Scientist (Agra)
🏢 International Potato Center CGIAR
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