Head of Agronomy Operations

Finagra; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FinAgra is seeking a Senior Head of Agronomy Operations to design and oversee the agronomic operating system across its farms worldwide. The role centers on translating agronomic standards into repeatable field execution and scalable farm processes, with a strong focus on cross-site consistency.

You will lead dispersed agronomy teams, establish crop planning rhythms, and drive practical implementation of SOPs. Willingness to travel and work across markets is expected.

Qualifications

• Strong background in agronomy, crop production or related field.
• Experience managing commercial agricultural production.
• Experience across multiple production sites or geographies.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational implementation of agronomic standards across FinAgra’s farms and geographies.
• Build systems to ensure consistent production principles across locations.
• Translate crop protocols and SOPs into actionable farm plans, workflows, and controls.
• Lead and support local agronomy teams to ensure consistent execution.
• Establish operating rhythms for crop planning, field monitoring, and reviews.
• Identify gaps between planned practices and field execution; drive corrective actions.
• Work with Operations, Procurement and Product teams to ensure field execution feasibility.
• Define staffing models and processes for scaling agronomy teams.
• Standardise farm reporting of agronomic activities, risks and performance.
• Support onboarding of new farms and geographies; capture lessons learned.

Job description

About FinAgra

FinAgra is building a new model for commercial agriculture in emerging markets.

FinAgra is building a new model for commercial agriculture in emerging markets. We combine financing, agronomy, technology, and farm operations to turn underperforming farmland into professionally managed, productive farming businesses.

We are looking for a Head of Agronomy Operations to build and run the agronomic operating system across FinAgra’s farms and geographies.

The Role

This is a senior agronomy role with a strong operational focus. We are looking for someone who has managed agricultural production across multiple sites or geographies and knows how to make dispersed farming operations perform consistently.

A strong candidate may have managed production farms or seed-production sites for a global seed company, agribusiness or large farming organisation — ensuring that different locations follow the same standards, execute production plans correctly and consistently achieve expected results.

You will sit at the intersection of agronomy and operations, translating FinAgra’s agronomic standards into repeatable and scalable farm execution.

What You’ll Do

• Own the operational implementation of FinAgra’s agronomic standards across farms and countries.
• Build systems that ensure farms in different locations operate according to the same production principles, standards and processes.
• Translate crop protocols and SOPs into practical farm operating plans, workflows, routines and controls.
• Lead and support local agronomy teams and ensure consistent execution across the organisation.
• Establish operating rhythms for crop planning, field monitoring, agronomic reviews and escalation of problems.
• Identify gaps between planned agronomic practices and actual field execution and drive corrective action.
• Work closely with Operations, Procurement and Product teams to ensure that agronomic plans can be executed reliably in the field.
• Help define staffing models, responsibilities and working processes for agronomy teams as FinAgra scales.
• Standardise how farms report agronomic activities, risks and performance.
• Support the launch and onboarding of new farms and new geographies.
• Build mechanisms for lessons learned in one farm or geography to be rapidly adopted across the entire network.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong professional background in agronomy, crop production, plant science or a related field.
• Significant hands-on experience managing commercial agricultural production.
• Experience managing multiple production sites, farms or regions, ideally across different geographies.
• Particularly relevant experience includes production management within seed companies, global agribusinesses or large-scale farming organisations.
• Strong understanding of farm operations and the practical realities of executing agronomic plans.
• Demonstrated ability to standardise processes and maintain consistent production standards across dispersed teams.
• Experience managing and developing agronomists or production teams.
• Ability to identify local agronomy talents across the world on the targeted markets.
• Guide, train and manage them.
• Strong operational discipline and ability to identify where execution is deviating from plan.
• Comfortable working with data, KPIs, and structured operating processes.
• Willingness to spend significant time in the field and travel between FinAgra markets.