Director - Strategic Retail Alliances

October 31

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Land O'Lakes, Inc.

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Agricultural Products • Food Manufacturer • Foodservice • Animal Feed and Nutrition • Ag tech

5001 - 10000

Description

• This role will partner with and through owners, WinField United leadership, and basic manufacturers. • The role will lead coordination of strategic relationships, manage resources and activities, negotiate agreements, and execute retail improvement strategies. • Responsible for coordination of upstream advocacy with manufacturers to result in successful R&D investment. • This role will help shape the Seed and CPP marketplace alongside our retailer partners. • Drive strategic initiatives while creating and maintaining a partnership minded SRA model across the retail system.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Finance or Business-related field • 15+ years of progressive experience in crop protection, manufacturer partnerships and/or agronomy sales • Proven experience negotiating large revenue ag product sales agreements/contracts • Knowledge of cooperative concepts and experience working with cooperative leadership teams and boards • Demonstrated experience in M&A transactions, P&L ownership and/or risk management • Retail agriculture business improvement consulting experience preferred • Project management experience • Experience managing company-wide cross functional projects • Influence skills to rally the retailers toward the alignment model

Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • PTO • life & disability insurance • education assistance • 401k • variety of well-being resources