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Product Manager – Crop Nutrients
1 month ago
Responsible for product line P&L including procuring for back-to-back sales and Winfield United positions as a collaborative and coordinated effort within manager and department guidelines. This role is a key function in helping our customers maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace thru developing a market Point of View, communicating and flawless execution. Operates under risk position guidelines, internal and external supply and demand, market intelligence communication and product cost updates.
Strategy Execution
- Procures fertilizer products from suppliers and other potential sellers in the market and creates purchase contracts.
- Negotiates pricing and contracts with suppliers.
- Manages product risk positions. Must always know long and short positions and be aware of supply options.
- Manage and approve supplier storage fees in conjunction with Product Manager guidance.
- Collaborates with Product Managers / Owners Support / Sales Team / Transportation to assist in meeting both internal and external expectations – this is a function of problem solving.
- Collaborates daily with other CNBU departments to ensure proper communication flow in a professional manner.
- Maintaining a positive working relationship with suppliers with integrity and trust
Internal & External Supply & Demand
- Maintains market-based price sheets as they pertain to specific products and or regions for internal guidance and communication with procurement and sales staff.
- This requires communication with sellers / producers and traders to find the buy/sell values in the marketplace.
- Output can be direct email correspondence to internal distribution group, spreadsheet, and/or company Dashboard.
- Manage and price contract overpulls – collaborating directly with supplier / Owners Support and Sales Team
- . Coordinates inbound logistics for Winfield owned and leased terminals and monitors their inventories.
Market Intelligence & Communication
- Accurately read, understand market trends thru collaborative communication with Market Intel and Sales Departments
- Communicates market POV on a weekly basis – both written and verbal (internal conference calls)
- Advises Sales Representatives of purchasing options and current market trends to inform customers.
- Frequent communication with the team to assist in providing valuable market information that is needed to help formulate a convicted market POV (point of view)
- Anticipates change and responds resourcefully and constructively.
Operations & Logistics
- Manages inventories and inbound/outbound supply via company-owned and leased terminals.
- Communication internal/external of capacity to optimize supply chains.
- Works directly with internal transportation to understand freight costing as it pertains to the marketplace.
Experience and Education
- Bachelor's degree in agriculture or business-related field or at least a minimum of 6 years' experience in procurement, or equivalent combination of education & experience. Prefer procurement experience in fertilizer industry.
- Demonstrated computer skills in Microsoft suite of products (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Proven ability to interact well with suppliers, employees, management of all levels and Winfield United Owners.
- Proven ability to solve and resolve issues quickly and effectively.
- Travel requirement 20%
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