Manager Sr, Business Planning

Job Contributions and Key Responsibilities

 

Strategic Supply Planning and Business Portfolio Strategy

• Define the crop strategy based on best practices, business segment, and business model for the short and long term.
• Design the annual application program for each zone in coordination with Driscoll’s and Operations.
• Consolidate and maintain the official version of the business unit’s 5-year acreage plan.
• Manage the business unit’s plant supply planning.
• Lead and facilitate the validation process for new varieties (OFTs) and their commercial incorporation.
• Plan and forecast the necessary resources to ensure the program’s operational effectiveness and meet the company’s objectives.
• Analyze supply curves and planting programs in coordination with Driscoll’s and quantify the impact on supply.
• Facilitate the transfer and adoption of variety and application knowledge among districts within the business unit.

Relationship with Driscoll's

• Serve as a liaison between the business unit entities and Driscoll’s to align drivers and financial indicators for the RAC entities.
• Lead the alignment with Driscoll’s production strategy to meet short- and long-term market demand by defining the application program and acreage by business segment.
• Manage and facilitate the evaluation of deviations from the application program.
• Plan and manage trials for the business unit entities in collaboration with Driscoll’s monitoring new varieties and/or applications with grower, partners, and commercial operations.
• Provide the information required by Driscoll’s to better understand and provide insight into agricultural operations, aligning key indicators and grower priorities.
• Periodically evaluate the business model. Support Driscoll’s on assessing the impact on growers of potential changes to the current model.
• Monitor the timely supply of plants according to applications programs.

Investment Evaluations and Operational Analysis

• Generate investment assessments for business segments and new opportunities in the short, medium, and long term.
• Analyze and model different supply scenarios to meet pre-established commitments with Driscoll’s and optimize production curves.
• Manage and lead multi-regional and functional projects that impact the districts’ strategic and supply plans

Supply Forecast

• Manage and facilitate the supply forecasting process.
• Document changes in planting programs versus Budget and reflect the impact on projected volume.
• Ensure the Flow of information between departments for accurate forecast documentation.
• Identify opportunities and risks of potential Budget deviations.
• Leverage Driscoll’s and RAC resources and align forecasts, optimizing resources and time allocations and achieving the established deviation target.

Other

Other duties as assigned

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Financial Analysis - Advanced
• Project Management - Intermediate
• Supply Analysis- Intermediate
• Process Design - Intermediate
• Project Assessment - Advanced
• Agronomy - Intermediate
• Strategic thinking
• Systems Vision
• Organizational awareness
• Initiative
• Leadership for change

 

Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree

 

Field/s of Education:

• Business Administration
• Finance
• Industrial Engineering
• Agribusiness

 

Years of Experience: 

8 years of Experience in related field

 

Languages: 

English & Spanish >95%

 

 

Necessary Software:

• Excel – Advanced
• Microsoft Project – Intermediate

 

Travel Requirements:

Ability to travel 70% of the time – domestic and international

 

Pay Scale: $166,300 - $191,100  

Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC)
Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC) is the largest fresh multi-berry producer in the world, growing Driscoll’s proprietary varieties of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries year-round in the United States, Canada, Baja California, Central Mexico, Portugal, Morocco, Canada and Peru.
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