Senior Director, Agricultural Sourcing & Procurement

Mt Olive Pickle Company; Mount Olive (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Profit Sharing

Dental Insurance

Employee Discount

Flexible spending account

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time-Off

Referral Program

Vision Insurance

Job summary

Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Inc. seeks a Director of Agricultural Procurement to lead strategy, execution, and continuous improvement across cucumbers, peppers, carrots, okra, mushrooms, and other crops.

This role negotiates terms with growers, builds supplier networks, and ensures on-budget sourcing aligned with production plans. The Director manages budgets, forecasts, and risk due to weather, labor, and regulatory changes, partnering with Operations, Quality, and Finance to support product

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in agriculture, agribusiness, supply chain management, business, economics, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Ten or more years of pr

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive agricultural sourcing strategy for cucumbers, peppers, carrots, okra, mushrooms, and other key commodities, balancing cost, quality, availability, geography, seasonality, and risk.
• Lead annual and multi-year crop planning to align contracted acres, projected yields, harvest timing, varietal requirements, processing specifications, and delivery schedules with production forecasts and inventory needs.
• Own agricultural procurement budgets, commodity cost forecasts, and purchase commitments; monitor performance against plan and implement timely corrective actions when market, crop, freight, labor, or yield conditions change.
• Negotiate crop contracts, pricing structures, volume commitments, incentives, quality provisions, freight terms, and other commercial terms with growers, packers, processors, and agricultural suppliers.
• Build and maintain trusted, long-term relationships with growers and suppliers through consistent communication, fair dealing, field engagement, timely issue resolution, and a clear understanding of mutual business needs.
• Maintain a strong working knowledge of H-2A agricultural labor requirements, wage rates, housing, transportation, recruitment, timing, and compliance obligations, and evaluate how labor availability and changing H-2A costs affect grower economics, crop pricing, harvest capacity, and sourcing decisions.

Education

Bachelor's degree in agriculture, agribusiness, supply chain management, business, economics, or a related field

Job description

Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Inc. seeks a Director of Agricultural Procurement to lead strategy, execution, and continuous improvement across cucumbers, peppers, carrots, okra, mushrooms, and other crops.

This role negotiates terms with growers, builds supplier networks, and ensures on-budget sourcing aligned with production plans. The Director manages budgets, forecasts, and risk due to weather, labor, and regulatory changes, partnering with Operations, Quality, and Finance to support product