Producer Relations Manager

At Danone North America, we work closely with our farmer partners to improve and increase the use of Regenerative Agriculture, Animal Welfare, and Milk Quality while ensuring that People, Profit and Purpose are taken into consideration. Our cross-functional Milk Team works to support our farmers in achieving continued success with an improved and more sustainable future by enabling high quality milk sourcing. As Danone North America, we work with over 600 farmer partners to source milk for our brands. Our Producer Relationship Management (PRM) Team, is looking for an individual to support our non-CPM farms and sustain our vision for a better milk future.

The Producer Relations Manager position entails building strategy, streamlining the communication, and enhancing the relationship with our non-CPM Farmer Partners.

Responsibilities:

§ Support cross-functional, project teams to ensure they have strong, successful working relationships with our farmer partners

• Maintain extraordinary relationships between Danone NA and our farmer partners
• Serve as primary point of contact for Producer Partners in the region
• Single point of contact for concerns or inquiries
• Develop, follow, implement, and monitor productivity or efficiency project with farms
• Create network of farmer partners aligned with Danone KPIs
• Ensure delivery of milk quality, on-farm sustainability, cost performance, and service level for all farms in Danone’s partner network

• Be a subject matter expert for dairy innovation and dairy management
• Maintain the data within Danone Producer Manager software to ensure information is current and accurate
  • • Contracts are current and accurate with legal team support
    • Full documentation of action plans and follow up with farmer partners
    
    

The base compensation range for this position is $75,000-113,000 commensurate with experience. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.

Education and Experience (Requirements):

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Agriculture, Dairy Science, Business or other relevant discipline)
• Direct experience working with or on a dairy farm
• Solid risk and stakeholder management experience
• Strong computer proficiency, Microsoft Office
• 3 or more years of work experience demonstrating the skills required for this position
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Need to be an employee in good standing with a proven track record of delivering results and displaying the leadership competencies and values of the organization. These include:

• Ability to thrive in a team environment
• Highly organized and multi-tasker
• Effective communicator and presenter
• Self-motivated, positive outlook
• Flexible ways of working to excel within both corporate and agricultural environments
• Must be detail oriented in order to coordinate cross functional tasks
• Ability to navigate unknowns, having business acumen and being able to maximize relationships
• Take charge and ability to lead
• Manage change, and ability to influence
• Ability to work in a highly fast pace, challenging and constantly changing environment

Location:

This position will be remote, preferably within 1 hour of Minster OH.

At Danone North America, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like Activia, Silk, Horizon Organic, Two Good, Oikos, evian, and Happy Family. You’ll be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps™ in the world, working together to make sure our brands create real benefits for people, communities, and the planet. We have 6,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We recruit, employ, train and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect. http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

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