About this Job:
This role is responsible for maintaining a balance between supply and demand within North America (NA) Seeds as they relate to the operational short-term plan based on crop or species.
Qualifications
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Create and Manage Soybean Seed Production Plan
- Identify and maintain planning factors utilized to develop Seed Production Plan
- Engage with Parent Seed/Line Maintenance and Cross-Regional teams on off-season parent production hand-off
- Manage and communicate supply numbers to appropriate stakeholders
- Leading planning calls with Plant Operations teams
- Participate in Soybean Advancement meeting and process
- Serve as liaison between Plant Operations, Sales and Marketing, Distribution, and Customer Service to oversee and communicate necessary order adjustments to meet financial goals and satisfy customer needs
- Work with commercial and crop teams to balance supply and demand
- Provide support through communication, reporting and data analysis the critical interface between brand, supply planning, production scheduling and logistics to review variety and site-specific conditioning schedules
- Identify and utilize quality supply for different bagging and treatment strategies
- Formulate conditioning strategies to minimize interplant costs and facilitate on-time deliveries
- Maintain effective working relationships with other key stakeholders across functions and geographies as required
- Ensure best use of technology to make processes effective and efficient
- Support special projects for Seeds Operational Planning as necessary
- Engaging with other internal and cross-functional colleagues to continuously strive for process improvement and efficiencies
- Ensure that Sales & Marketing’s, Plant Operations’, Distribution’s and Supply Planning’s needs and points of view are represented as possible resolutions to issues are explored
- Build a high level of credibility with all business units; add value that is tactical and strategic
Education & Experience:
- B.S. Degree, or comparable experience in related field
- General sales, marketing and technical skills; knowledge of product lines; knowledge of customers and distribution channels; previous seed experience business a plus
- 3-5 years’ experience in production planning, sales, and/or customer service or relations
- Experience or knowledge of SAP system, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Powerpoint) and other programming, such as VBA, SQL, Power-BI
Additional Knowledge, Skills, Traits & Abilities:
- Sets ambitious strategic goals – uses foresight to develop ambitious strategies, and aligns individual and team objectives with bigger picture
- Focuses on customers – is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
- Manages for performance – skillfully plans, organizes and monitors performance to create value and achieve excellence in delivery
- Self-motivated / directed, ability to effectively work in teams and independently to drive results
- Ability to build good relationships and work cross-functionally
- Steps beyond comfort zones – provides support for individuals and teams to work at their creative edge. Manages risk and is able to work with uncertainty