Field Department Manager, Potato

Position Title: Field Department Manager, Potato

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Easton

Requisition ID: 34218

The Field Department Manager is responsible and accountable for all aspects of potato Agricultural operations and supply activities at the local plant site (Easton, Maine). Through leading regional agricultural practices, the field manager will lead the new growth in the region by expanding strong strategic partnerships with the farming community.

Using best-in-class safety principles and talent development, the field manager will also be responsible for building a strong team of agriculture professionals, making the department an inclusive, diverse, and fun workplace. Helping support McCain agriculture’s digital transformation, you will be using and refining data systems to successfully deliver breakthrough initiatives that deliver optimal potato raw material value, operational efficiency, and consumer-winning quality.

Accountabilities:

• Support world-class safety programs through the implementation of regional best practices.
• Drive grower relationships to support the growth in the supply of potatoes for the Easton, Maine site.
• Partnering with Potato Supply Management, directly responsible for local market intelligence, risk assessment, and coordination of raw material purchase and utilization.
• Directly accountable and responsible for the daily supply of raw materials aligned with facility needs.
• Direct management, responsibility, and oversight of the local field department staff.
• Directly accountable and responsible for a sustainable grower base that can meet the company’s short and long-term growth goals.
• Develop a yearly sustainable cost savings plan to maximize the growth agenda for McCain and grower partners.
• Support the Ag Strategy team on McCain’s new variety development program to optimize potato quality and drive regional yield improvements.
• Develop a yearly potato contracting strategy using an updated economic cost of the production model.
• Develop and manage Fiscal Year department budgets
• Deliver breakthrough initiatives that optimize raw material value, operational efficiency, and consumer-winning quality

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant working experience, preferably within agricultural, manufacturing, and/or quality

Skills:

• Experience developing grower partners in a growing market
• Strong leadership qualities and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to develop and nurture strong cross-functional and departmental relationships
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen
• Negotiation and relationship management skills

Travel:

• Mostly local with within the growing region but an ability to travel as business needs require throughout North America.

About the team.

Reporting to Director of Agriculture (East) this individual will have 6 direct reports.

About McCain.

At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Leadership Principles.

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.

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Compensation Package: $97,500.00 -$130,000.00 USD annually bonus eligibility

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

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Job Family: Agriculture
Division: NA Ag Strategy
Department: Easton Agriculture Field
Location(s): US - United States of America : Maine : Easton || US - United States of America : Maine : Presque Isle

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.