Production Representative

• Accountable and responsible for producing seeds and achieving expected yield, quality, cost and at the right time. Responsible to deliver reliable seed from field to plant.

• Accountable for managing professional relationships with growers, labor contractors and alignment with internal teams.

• Manage all aspects of safety and compliance, contractual agreements, propose and obtain approvals on grower pricing and contract guidelines and strategies.

• Accountable and responsible for the grower selection process to achieve higher production reliability which includes grower background check, review previous reliability and performance, isolation distance, suitability of production area, etc.
• Ensuring all prework is done before starting each production cycle and grower is prepared to initiate the crop within optimum sowing windows.
• Responsible for supporting activities e.g., timely stock seed shipment to grower, arrangements for trials (production research, production related), arrangements for harvesting, threshing, extraction, drying and transportation of seeds from grower to other locations for further processing and cleaning.
• Ensure timely visits to fields at all stages of growing cycle to monitor crop development. Discuss and advise growers to adopt best practices for seed production following company's protocols and best practices.
• Responsible for training production workers and growers.
• Ensure field processes are carried out as per specifications & guidance provided by Local/Global SPS & ensure involvement in trainings to teams & farmers on PR farm or grower fields, following Local SPS schedules.
• Ensuring timely and accurate updates of production estimates in FIDO / DPPS.
• Production Data and Analysis: Review quantity, quality, cost, and timeliness data. Address areas for improvement, simplification, optimization, or expansion of our business, including Grower Performance analysis.
• Monitor seed shipments from production to operations plants based on the schedule and commitment to pay growers on time.
• Focus on get expertise about pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, develop technical fertigation skills and reduce dependency of external sources.
• Responsible for timely grower settlements. Coordinate / support to resolve any issue with grower / vendor.
• Innovation: Work with Seed Production Specialists, Field Quality and Production Research teams to identify and address projects that improve reliability, quality, and/or cost.
• Ensure external and internal compliance in our operations including HSE, Human Rights, Business conduct, PGRP, NAFI, SKAL, QMS, CSP, CSR, etc.
• Support to ISSP operational activities during offseason if required.
• Support to PH 4 production activities.

• B.S. degree or High school diploma (MS or MBA, preferred) with 3+ years' experience in seed industry.
• Excellent human relation skills, effective communication skills required.
• Experience in leading teams preferred.
• English language skills, intermediate or higher level preferred.
• Ability to influence all levels in the organization.
• Customer focus, innovation & experimentation, collaboration and implementation of best practices, knowledge sharing.
• Process and results oriented.
• Negotiations skills, plans and aligns.
• Fosters use digital and analytic tools.  Instills trust (with own team and growers).
• Courage & candor, business insight.
• Teams: attract, develop, and build effective teams. Empowers them the be their best versions

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