Senior Agronomy Operations & Growth Lead

Keystone Cooperative, Inc.; Decatur (IN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Keystone Cooperative, Inc. in Decatur, IN is seeking an Agronomy Operations Manager to drive location profitability, foster customer relationships, and lead team development.

You will oversee facility and equipment optimization, inventory control, and financial governance while planning for short- and long-term growth. Key duties include meeting location goals, supporting sales growth, supervising loading and dispatch, managing records, ensuring regulatory safety, and developing crop protection

Qualifications

• Demonstrate essential abilities including personnel management, communications, customer focus and decision making.
• Basic Agronomy knowledge and skills (insect, weed and disease identification, fertility).
• Financial knowledge including reading and understanding financial statements.
• Must have valid driver’s license and be able to obtain and maintain all acceptable certifications, licenses and permits.
• Have a 1A and Category 14 license.
• Ability and willingness to work long hours and on-call as business conditions warrant.

Responsibilities

• Meet location goals.
• Develop location personnel capabilities including assisting in hiring, coaching, training, performance management and assigning key tasks.
• Support the Region manager in driving sales growth including assigning accounts to salespeople, calling on some accounts and working with Sales Specialists on others, monitoring customer satisfaction through ongoing dialogue and identifying potential prospects.
• Supervise mixing, loading and dispatch.
• Manage facility inventory including forecasting product needs, anticipating inventory needs and purchasing product through approved suppliers.
• Manage facility finances including sales and expense budgeting and management, billing, accounts receivables and payables and managing prepays.
• Manage facility assets including routine maintenance, facility and equipment replacement plans and driver equipment inspections.
• Make Crop Protection and fertility recommends including DataOnTouch farm and field plans, mapping and recordkeeping.
• Manage location recordkeeping, including internal financial and customer production and financial records.
• Manage location risk including compliance with regulations, safety and emergency response training and ongoing site inspections.
• Develop short- and long-term plans for the location.

Skills

Personnel management

Communications

Customer focus

Decision making

Agronomy knowledge

Financial literacy

1A & Category 14 license

Driver's license

Willingness to work long hours

Education

Bachelor's degree in agriculture or business

Five years or more related work experience

Job description

Keystone Cooperative, Inc. in Decatur, IN is seeking an Agronomy Operations Manager to drive location profitability, foster customer relationships, and lead team development.

You will oversee facility and equipment optimization, inventory control, and financial governance while planning for short- and long-term growth. Key duties include meeting location goals, supporting sales growth, supervising loading and dispatch, managing records, ensuring regulatory safety, and developing crop protection