Agronomy Administrative Assistant - M&M Service Company - Girard, IL

PURPOSE AND SUMMARY STATEMENT

The Agronomy Administrative Assistant provides essential customer service and administrative support at a retail agronomy facility. This role involves direct communication with customers and employees, accurate invoicing, inventory management, reporting, marketing, and record-keeping.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, sales staff, and operations teams.
• Process invoices, inventory, and customer purchases with accuracy and efficiency.
• Utilize Agvance for Blend Tickets, Product Bookings, Delivery Tickets, and planning support.
• Absorb sales staff with precision farming programs and agronomy planning.
• Maintain organized customer accounts and market data for easy retrieval.
• Generate reports for sales, marketing, and management as needed.
• Order and track agronomy products and office supplies.
• Support day-to-day operations, including occasional local errands.
• Cross-train for other administrative roles as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the facility.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Normally requires an associate’s degree in a business or agriculture related field or the equivalent thereof, and 2 years or more of office related work experience.
• Must have and maintain a valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving record.
• Demonstrated essential abilities including business knowledge, collaboration, communication, customer focus, decision making and skill development.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to work with a variety of billing, planning and blending programs and be able to develop spreadsheets for other business functions.
• While performing duties pertaining to this job, the individual may be required to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close and distant vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.
• Must be willing to work additional hours beyond the normal work week at various times throughout the year. These include, but are not limited to, seasons of heavy customer demand and month end procedures.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet/humid conditions and extreme cold.
• May be required to travel independently and overnight.
• Ability and willingness to participate in required training that may include education on GROWMARK’s policies and procedures and additional training as it relates to the requirements of the position.