Description

At Corteva Agriscience, you will help us grow what’s next. No matter your role, you will be part of a team that is building the future of agriculture – leading breakthroughs in the innovation and application of science and technology that will better the lives of people all over the world and fuel the progress of humankind. We are currently hiring a Supply Chain Director for North America.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide leadership in driving our safety commitment to zero. Focus on eliminating severe injury potential for your employee workforce. Support safety focus areas for our Production Network.
• Engage Supply Chain teams to integrate Corteva values in all aspects of our teams and operations.
• Create a strong culture of employee development, inclusion and diversity and high employee engagement. Ensure employee development processes are utilized to coach and provide feedback to employees. Ensure employee effort and results are recognized and rewarded.
• Develop and execute strategic workforce plans to determine future headcount and skill set needs, succession plans and sourcing qualified candidates.
• Develop and execute 1-3 year strategic plans for North America Seed Production Supply Chain (NA SPSC). The scope includes all Supply Chain operations and production operation activities needed to execute on delivering quality seed to our commercial sales team on time. The includes, but is not limited to Seed Quality Characterization, Rough Cut Capacity Planning and Scheduling, and Supply Allocations to our Commercial Teams.
• Leadership of Supply Chain team to direct and manage seed operations with agility. Drive execution of plan with excellence and quickly develop, communicate, and mobilize resources to implement contingency plans as business needs or challenges are recognized.
• Maintain strong and frequent communication with commercial sales team. NA SPSC shall provide succinct visibility of how we are executing on tactical plans to fulfill customer needs and shall develop proposals for commercial team to help them balance customer needs and business reliability and cost.
• Develop and execute steps to fully capture the value of Data Excellence and Data Driven Decision making in our Supply Chain operations.

Qualifications

What Skills You Need:

• BA or BS (or equivalent), preferably in Supply Chain, operations, business, or agriculture discipline
• 10+ years of Supply Chain, business or operations experience
• Motivational leadership
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Understanding of seed production and Supply Chain principles (quality, productivity, field and plant activities)
• Strong understanding of the seed business
• Strong financial acumen
• High level of issue identification, problem solving and decision making skills
• Ability to influence and coordinate effectively cross-functionally and cross-culturally
• Requires up to 20% travel

Benefits – How We’ll Support You:

• Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills
• Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place
• Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
• Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays
• Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father
• Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program
• Learn more about our total rewards package here – Corteva Benefits
• Check out life at Corteva! www.linkedin.com/company/corteva/life

Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.