Producer Relations Manager - West

About the Job

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 farmer partners to source milk for our brands. Our Producer Relationship Management (PRM) Team, is looking for an individual to support our 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 Farmer Partners.
Responsibilities:
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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.

About You

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

30%
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 2 hours of Salt Lake City, Utah.

About Us

At Danone North America, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like

Activia, Silk, 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.

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