Top Agriculture Jobs of the Week
For the week of 12-16-24
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Business Development Manager - Horticulture for Environmental Design
A little about the business:
Welcome to Environmental Design! We are a company that transplants giant trees across the USA and abroad. We also supply and install large specimen trees and we custom grow for large projects. We are expanding our team and looking for a Business Development Manager with a background in horticulture to help drive growth and strategic initiatives in California and neighboring states.
We’re hiring a Business Development Manager to join our team remotely in the Western United States with a strong understanding of the California area. In this role will focus on building and nurturing relationships with potential clients, expanding market presence, and driving sales growth across California.
What will you be doing:
- Business Development: Identify and pursue new business opportunities, including partnerships, and direct clients.
- Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with existing clients, growers, and industry professionals, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.
- Market Research: Conduct thorough market research to understand regional trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape in California’s horticultural market.
- Sales Strategy: Develop and implement targeted sales strategies, including lead generation, proposal development, contract negotiation, and closing deals.
This job is for you if you have:
- Experience: 3-5 years of business development or sales experience preferably in Horticulture or relatable field.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree. Advanced degrees or certifications in business or horticultural sciences are a plus.
- Sales Skills: Proven ability to generate leads, develop sales strategies, and close deals in a competitive market.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
We offer competitive salary and performance-based bonuses, health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement savings plan with company match, paid time off and holidays.
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Poultry Veterinarian for Wilcox Farms
A little about the business: Wilcox Farms is a family-owned business that has been in operation for over 100 years, serving as one of the leading organic, free range and pasture egg producers in the Pacific Northwest. Headquartered in Southern Pierce County, we have four manufacturing and sales facilities throughout Oregon, Montana and Washington. Wilcox Farms is a high-growth industry leader, ranked as one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the region by the Puget Sound Business Journal. We offer a range of egg products for our retail and foodservice clientele including Certified Humane, Pasture-Raised, Organic, Free Range, and non-GMO options.
We are seeking a Poultry Veterinarian to join our team based in Roy, WA. We strive to offer top notch animal welfare practices and elite customer service, with this role overseeing performance at live production layer and pullet facilities in Washington, Oregon, and Montana. You will be responsible for analyzing and generating reports to advise management on best practices and areas to focus on for positive flock performance. Our ideal candidate has experience in animal health and nutrition, a mentor mentality, and is open-minded to customer and local market feedback on innovative production strategies.
What you will be doing:
- Oversee Layer health over three-layer facilities (Roy, WA, Burlington, WA, & Aurora, OR), two pullet facilities (Roy, WA & Shedd, OR), and contract farms in Montana.
- Develop good Risk Mitigation Practices for the production side of the company by preventing disease to the birds and pathogens to the eggs. Be the company leader in bio-security practices.
- Maintain egg quality program and biosecurity program
- Develop and help sustain standards for each phase or activity for free range and pasture production
What you will bring:
- A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or related degree from an accredited university (USA or otherwise).
- Previous avian handling experience - turkey, chicken, etc
- Ability to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment.
- Ability to analyze data or processes, report findings and make recommendations.
We offer a salary of $150,000 - $175,000 dependent on experience, health, dental, and vision insurance, PTO, 401k and relocation assistance, along with the opportunity to thrive in friendly, family-oriented environment.
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Grower Field Services Coordinator for Holganix
A little about the business: At Holganix, we revolutionize the way the world grows by manufacturing and distributing a liquid microbial solution (think of it as a probiotic for soil) to primarily farmers across America and Canada. Our solution dramatically increases soil health, ultimately improving crop yield and reducing the need for other inputs like fertilizer, pesticides, and water. We strive to be a diverse and connected team of humble and confident problem solvers who are excited as our team and mission grow!
We are hiring a highly organized and proactive Grower Field Services Coordinator near Kansas City. You will ensure smooth execution of soil sampling and agronomic services, working with growers on timing, field boundaries, application information, and digital agronomy accounts. In this role, you will also schedule soil sampling and coordinate with third parties for analysis. Your key priority will be managing project timelines and maintaining strong relationships and communication with all stakeholders to achieve operational excellence. This hybrid role is based partially in the Lenexa, KS office and remote.
Responsibilities:
- Project Management: Oversee agronomic soil sampling services, coordinating with third parties and growers.
- Coordination: Ensure fields are ready for sampling, work with growers to gather field boundaries and field application information, ensuring access to their digital agronomy accounts.
- Scheduling: Work with the field team to conduct soil sampling and work with utility providers to obtain field clearance.
- Operational Excellence: Manage growing season activities to ensure timely soil sampling.
- Data Collection and Reporting: Ensure accurate data collection and timely reporting of project progress and results. Track customer interaction within HubSpot (CRM).
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with third parties, growers, field crews, and local utilities, acting as a liaison for Holganix.
Qualifications:
- Experience in agriculture, farming, or related field coordination.
- Proven success in customer relations and managing multiple projects with dynamic timelines.
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong aptitude for real time problem solving.
We offer a competitive salary, employer-supported benefit plans including health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
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Regional Sales Manager for Griffin Greenhouse Supplies
A little about the business: Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, Inc., founded in 1947 by Charles J. Griffin, and headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts is one of the largest horticultural brokers and suppliers in the Nation. Griffin prides itself on being unsurpassed at what we do and provides the very best all-around horticultural products and services to our customers.
This position manages and directs Sales Representatives to achieve sales and profit goals within a region by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures Sales Representatives meet and consistently perform all requirements outlined in the Outside Sales Training Manual.
- Designs and recommends sales and marketing programs.
- Assists in setting short and long-term sales strategies.
- Reviews regional market analyses to determine customer needs, price schedules, competition strength, and discount rates.
- Manages staffing, training, and performance evaluations to develop and control sales program. Provides disciplinary or corrective action when appropriate.
- Assigns sales territory to Sales Representatives.
Competency:
- Customer Service - Provides role model behavior to Sales Representatives by responding promptly and courteously to Customer needs/concerns and by maintaining composure at all times.
- Interpersonal Skills - Demonstrates ability to interact at all levels providing fair and consistent treatment of all Sales Representatives and Customers.
- Verbal Communication - Effectively and consistently communicates goals, objectives, and notifies Sales Representatives when they are on/off track.
- Written Communication - Able to write effectively, clearly defining expectations and overall job performance.
- Product Knowledge - Basic knowledge of the market, key products, and growing techniques.
Griffin offers a collaborative work environment, competitive salary, medical, and benefits package including 401k/profit sharing, retirement plan, paid vacation, paid holidays, and more.
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Remote Field Technical Representative for Boix Machinery
A little about the business: Welcome to Boix Machinery USA! Founded over 50 years ago, the company is an innovative and world-leader, which designs and manufactures industrial machinery that specializes in forming, erecting and gluing corrugated and compact cardboard boxes. Our machines apply to the agricultural, Corrugated and Fiberboard manufacturers, E-commerce, food and other general manufacturing industries.
We are hiring a highly motivated Field Technical Rep to be based remotely near Leamington, ON. We are seeking an experienced field service technician to work directly with the customer to diagnose and troubleshoot machinery repairs both over-the-phone and on-site. You will also assist with installations to ensure all equipment is set up and functioning correctly.
Focus Areas:
- Troubleshoot machinery and resolve a high percentage of mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical issues unassisted.
- Actively involved with equipment installations and commissioning of machines
- Communicate effectively with other field service technicians to resolve technical issues.
- Maintain a positive, professional relationship with customer personnel.
- Document pertinent technical and customer information to facilitate an ongoing business relationship.
- Carrying out tasks of the aftermarket sales area of the business.
Qualifications:
- Preferably have a two-year technical degree in machine automation or related technical field such as Fluid Power or Industrial Maintenance
- Minimum of five years demonstrated work experience in the manufacturing industry or related technical field, packaging machine automation preferred, OR, have a high school diploma and five years of demonstrated work experience in the packaging manufacturing industry or a related technical field.
- Electrical Knowledge
- This role requires flexibility to travel and respond to urgent service calls
- Proven ability to communicate well and provide exceptional customer service
- Open to travel 50%
We offer a strong salary in addition to a benefits package including health, dental, vision, life insurance, PTO, and 401K.
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