NA Production Manager - SSV

Job Description

• Develop, supervise & lead a network of regional production personnel with clear accountabilities and plans for succession and personal development.
• Build organizational capability to meet the combined challenges of competitive COGS and product quality, alongside an increasingly complex product offer.
• Engage in creating a platform for the global production community to connect, cooperate, share best practices, and set the required prioritized actions to execute the Seed Production Plan (SPP).
• Achieve full function-wide compliance with external and internal standards on HSE, product quality, Code of Conduct, and key risk management processes; engage in shaping the space on new internal standards and compliance processes.
• Build effective working relationships with relevant functions such as Processing, Global Seed Sourcing, Supply OPS, Quality, Finance, Procurement and Supply Chain.
• Act as a member of the Global SSV Production Leadership Team to shape functional process, standards and culture.
• Interface with Research and Development (R&D), Global production Crop Strategist, Supply Chain and Commercial to implement/execute agreed upon strategies and improvements for supply reliability.
• Actively engage in the crop and operational planning to meet business objectives; ensure achievable plans are agreed and risks shared and understood, deliver to the agreed plan.
• Collaborating with Global Seed Sourcing personnel ensure required production data is actively collected and analyzed to promote continous improvement.
• Develop and ensure that assigned crops have a crop production strategy and investment plan.
• Develop and implement key field management processes and procedures in seed production, measured with appropriate KPI's.
• Deliver the approved SPP (QQTP) within agreed upon tolerances.
• Develop operational budgets to meet business planning expectations; manage operational costs within these agreed budgets and develop compelling business cases for unplanned spend.