Operations Manager - Agriculture

About the job

The Operations Manager identifies needed improvements for business processes and operations to increase overall productivity, increase efficiencies and lower sales costs. This position is also responsible for creating processes and procedures to meet business objectives for the location.

What Your Day Will Look Like

• Identifies and improves practices to lower average inventory shrinkage costs.
• Serves as a resource to branch leadership and assists with specific improvement activities within the branch.
• Serves as a point of contact for Proprietary Products and Branch Managers to ensure branch fertilizer and seed treatment invoicing is accurate.
• Identifies and recommends product forecasting and stocking plans to create opportunity for Helena brands.
• Provides guidance to locations on the best usage of flat storage.
• Manages total inventories relative to the best taxable position.
• Corrects invoicing of tech fees and available system reports.
• Aids branches with justification and utilization of capital and lease requests.
• Supports seed group in managing long-term seed inventory.
• Maintains other members of the team.
• May be required to operate a company vehicle.
• Provides excellent customer service to all internal and external customers.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or technical school certificate is required.
• Three years of operations, sales or branch management experience in the agricultural field is required.

Skills & Qualifications

• Management skills including coordinating weekly and monthly team meetings.
• Ability to multi-task (i.e. dispatch trucks and equipment per client orders).
• Fabricating and heavy truck experience is preferred.
• Ability to manage safety regulations.
• Working knowledge of Helena products is preferred.
• Ability to travel by various means up to 10% is required.
• Motivated and a self-starter.
• Valid U.S. driver's license is required and must meet all company requirements to drive a Helena vehicle.
• Ability to read, write and speak in English is required.
• Communicating in Spanish is a valuable skill at Helena.
• Computer skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office are required.

Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance starts the same day you do!
• Earn up to $3,000 in Reward Dollars from Helena for your Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Robust 401(k) Savings Plan offers a 100% company-match up to 5% starting on your first day.
• Three-year vesting on company-match with 1,000 hours of service.
• Access your earned pay between paydays through Earned Wage Access (EWA) with DailyPay.
• Paid time-off and holiday pay.
• Free Term Life Insurance at 1x your annual base pay - paid for by Helena at no cost to you.
• Free Short & Long-Term Disability.
• Up to four weeks of paid Parental Leave.
• Education Assistance.

Work Environment & Physical Aspects of the Job

• The work environment for this position will be in an office setting and outdoors in all types of weather conditions with exposure to outdoor elements.
• When working outdoors and possibly around moving equipment/mechanical parts, you could be exposed to fumes, airborne particles, chemical and biological hazards, vibrations and a risk of electrical shock.
• This position requires you to use your hands for many different tasks and to talk, hear, walk, stand sit, stand (8 hours a day or more), lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling (up to and including 50lbs or more), reaching overhead (up to and including 25lbs), climbing, gripping, grasping and twisting using hands and wrists, bending and stooping for long periods of time, working below knee levels for short periods of time and working above shoulder level for short periods.

Company Information

• At Helena, our leaders are expected to demonstrate the same qualities that we value in our employees -- integrity, passion and accountability.
• We support individuals with disabilities, and reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
• We are an equal opportunity employer.