What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buying Point Manager – Ashburn, GA position at Archer Daniels Midland?
Buying Point Manager – Ashburn, GA
This is a full time, exempt position
The Buying Point Manager is primarily responsible for procuring, handling, and processing farmer stock for an individual location or facility at a profitable level. Note that although this role description includes your primary responsibilities, it is not all-inclusive. Your role is, in fact, to support all other functions within the GPC organization.
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.
REF:96657BR
This is a full time, exempt position
The Buying Point Manager is primarily responsible for procuring, handling, and processing farmer stock for an individual location or facility at a profitable level. Note that although this role description includes your primary responsibilities, it is not all-inclusive. Your role is, in fact, to support all other functions within the GPC organization.
- Daily responsibility to ensure shelling plant is adequately supplied with peanuts to operate on a 24/7 schedule.
- Coordinating loadouts, transportation, site personnel for unloading
- Working closely with shelling plant manager to meet quantity and quality needs for the plant
- Responsible for maintaining and managing satellite warehouses.
- Multiple locations will be operated on a seasonal basis. Must be maintained for an effective harvest operation
- Promoting Golden Peanut’s services in your local community.
- Organizing, scheduling and handling farmer stock peanuts through the facility
- Hire, staff, and train qualified employees
- Perform pre-season and post-season maintenance
- Prepare budget and monitor profit and loss statements for your facility
- Market peanut seed
- Negotiate contracts and contract proposals between producers and GPC for the local facility
- Recommend and present AFEs for improvements
- Monitor and control pests and weeds
- Minimize net weight and dollar value shrinkage
- Maintain liaison with the Area Procurement Manager to stay ahead of managerial responsibilities and changes affecting producer sales and/ or services
- Monitor bailouts to ensure that they are handled effectively
- Monitor and improve all quality aspects of farmer stock including drying, cleaning, handling, storing and loading out to meet the needs of the final customer
- Assist in company crop reporting
- Instruct and advise employees on following safety procedures and guidelines
- Monitor Federal State Inspection Service to insure accurate grading of farmer stock at time of acquisition
- Good communication skills (listening, speaking, and writing)
- Decision making and problem solving
- Ability to delegate, remain calm under pressure, and see the “Big Picture”
- Basic mechanical and electrical skills
- Lead, direct and motivate employees
- Financial analysis, including profit and loss statements
- Basic computer skills and office skills
- An ability to market Golden Peanut’s goods and services to the public
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or 6 years proven experience in Ag processing or operations.
- Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience.
- Grading systems, including regrade and the Federal State grading system
- How to procure, handle, dry, clean, and store farmer stock in order to maximize quality for GPC
- Rules and regulations governing the procurement and sale of farmer stock peanuts
- To know and recognize good peanut farming practices
- To know the contract for the crop year and its implications
- Regulations of different agencies such as OSHA, PAC, EEOC, the Federal Inspection Service and CCC
- How to operate the equipment at your facility
- The relevance of farmer stock shrink and the dollar value loss
- The basics about seed peanuts, peanut farming and handling equipment and related items
- How to implement procurement and marketing strategies
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.
REF:96657BR
