Business Unit Leader

Your Responsibilities

As a Business Unit Leader for JD Seeding - Valley City located in Valley City, ND, you will:

• Plan and manage manufacturing and/or warehouse operations for current and future products in a business/production unit.
• Has multiple process with complex product lines. This involves direction for personnel and establishment of processes for the purpose of delivering quality products and/or parts orders when the customer requires it in a safe and productive manner.
• Additional focus is on continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, workforce utilization, cost reduction and profitability through lean manufacturing of the Deere Production System.
• Manufacturing Engineering and Materials staff may report directly to this position.
• Generally greater than 75 direct and indirect reports with an operating budget greater than $5 million.
• Has Product Delivery Process (PDP) and Order Fulfillment Process (OFP) responsibilities. 

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• Oversee an operational area with guidance from senior colleagues. Could involve responsibility for development or delivery (or both).
• Develop procedures and interpret and apply policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs, or advise the wider business on application of policy, then monitor implementation of those procedures within the organization.
• Work within established strategic planning systems to achieve specific goals within area of responsibility.
• Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of external communications with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of internal communications with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Follow the organization's health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions to identify and mitigate environmental risks and risks to the well-being of self and others in the workplace.
• Identify patterns of risky behavior within the team and take appropriate action to resolve them, escalating serious issues as appropriate.
• Implement the formal development framework for a team, with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Provide informal coaching to others throughout the organization in area of expertise.
• Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives. 

What Makes You Stand Out

• Planning and Organizing: Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives. 
• Policy and procedures: Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
• Action Planning: Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
• Verbal Communication: Applies comprehensive knowledge to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies. 
• Adaptive Mindset: Works at an advanced level to shift into and out of a mental mindsets associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Policy and Regulation: Works independently and provides guidance and training to others while interpreting and applying comprehensive knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in area of expertise.
• Costing and Budgeting: Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on costing, budgeting and finance tasks.
• Multi-Project Management: Works with full competence to manage multiple unrelated projects (not an integrated program) with possibly different life cycle frameworks such as traditional, agile, or a hybrid. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. 

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Master's Degree or Equivalent Level