Location Manager - Now Offering Commitment Bonus!

About the role

The Location Manager will direct, promote, and coordinate all business aspects of the location in a manner that will achieve the Cooperative's Mission, Visions, and Goals. Utilize direction from Area Managers and District Managers while working with peers in continued growth.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Administration: Supervise location employees while providing guidance and oversight; provide vision and leadership for the location team; schedule and facilitate location group and individual meetings.
• Provide Direction & Assistance: Direct the education and development of the location team through classes and coaching; fill openings by evaluating, interviewing, and extending offers to potential candidates; coach and train new employees; collect sensitive and difficult accounts receivable instances, as necessary; direct safety practices and awareness of established safety needs as defined by safety staff; review inventory reconciliations with area managers when presented with inconsistencies.
• Operations: Collaborate with dispatchers and area managers to execute an organized logistics plan daily; remain knowledgeable and involved in sales marketing programs of all departments; assist with daily location operations as needed.
• Budgeting & Finances: Work towards meeting established location budgets prepared annually by department; work with area and district managers on potential site expansion and growth opportunities.
• Other: Promote the company culture that is focused on providing complete sales, service, and employee development; written and oral communication to Area Managers, District Managers, Senior Leadership, and the CEO as required.

Basic employment expectations

• Safety: Performs work safely and uses the appropriate PPE; checks the work area for hazards and corrects/reports unsafe conditions; considers the safety of oneself, other employees, and customers; follows all safety protocols and seeks advice from supervisor when uncertain.
• Communication: Maintains open communication and cooperates with supervisor, departments, and fellow employees; communicates with supervisor and others immediately when unexpected problems cause absence, lateness, or the need to leave early.
• Accountability & Professionalism: Abides by policies set forth in the employee policy manual; carries a fair share of the workload; promotes NEW Cooperative through positive, friendly, and professional interactions; is punctual, follows directives, and works in an efficient and timely manner; accepts personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of the work; understands that satisfactory attendance is essential to the efficient operation of the work environment.
• Customer Service: Continually works to satisfy customers to address questions/concerns through effective communication, solving problems, responding to questions, and managing their expectations.
• Personal/Professional Development: Establishes personal performance goals and works toward these goals; continually upgrades and demonstrates knowledge of the job.

Qualifications and requirements

• Significant agribusiness-related experience. At least 5 years of experience in grain and/or agronomy operations.
• Must be licensed and insurable to drive. Class A CDL (Commercial Driver's License) with HazMat endorsement and pesticide handler's license required.
• Must possess an array of interpersonal communication skills for interacting with varying personalities, roles, circumstances and emotional status of teammates, customers, and contractors.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Understand the seasonality of the farm supply business and the in-season time commitment.
• Thorough understanding of grain handling equipment and processes, including unit train loading.
• Complete knowledge of custom application and similar agronomy equipment.
• Must possess proficiencies of common computer programs and processes.
• Must understand common mathematics associated with account balancing and purchasing.
• Possesses problem solving capability and understands the operational processes.
• Must be able to guide employees while maintaining their individualism in tasks and direction.

Physical demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

• Position will rarely work in wet or humid, extreme cold/heat (all non-weather) conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, or vibration.
• Position will occasionally work near moving mechanical parts, work in high, precarious places, in fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, work in explosive atmosphere.
• Position will frequently work in outdoor weather conditions.