About This Role
This role is responsible for maximizing efficiencies across all resources within an assigned territory, including employees, equipment, and services. The Territory Manager will oversee day-to-day operations, ensure high levels of customer service, and provide safety leadership.
Responsibilities
- Manage all employees within the assigned territory on a day-to-day basis
- Ensure seasonal facilities are well maintained, cared for, and staffed during seasonal operations
- Provide a high level of customer service
- Adhere to safety policies and provide safety leadership
- Adhere to and carry out central dispatching of agronomy products and services
- Set and communicate hours of operation for each location under their purview
- Coordinate the most efficient use of people and equipment within their territory, region, and in coordination with other territory managers
- Maintain clean and attractive workplaces
- Report opportunities for increased sales and improved efficiencies in territory operations
- Keep grain and all inventory items in good condition
- Follow accounting procedures: inventory of merchandise, daily cash controls, and all other necessary accounting functions to maintain adequate records
- Make farm calls as needed to promote company products, services, and values
- Promote company and territory employee cohesiveness through effective communication, teamwork, and shared services
- Ensure all inventory items are properly accounted for in a timely manner
- Promote and adhere to the company Core Values of honesty, integrity & teamwork
- Perform preventative maintenance on all rolling stock and fixed assets
- Adhere to cooperative credit policy
- Secure facilities and equipment when closing
- Manage operating expenses and improve key performance indicators and metrics
- Ensure effective use of staff overtime and effective use of staff
- Manage repairs and maintenance expenses to drive decreases through effective preventative maintenance
- Effectively communicate labor shortages and excesses to Regional Manager and other Territory Managers
- Perform all other duties as directed
- Directly supervise employees in the assigned Territory
- Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws
- Interview, hire, and train employees
- Plan, assign, and direct work
- Appraise performance
- Reward and discipline employees
- Address complaints and resolve problems
- Verify timecards
Requirements
- High school diploma
- Previous experience related to grain, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, and/or farm supplies
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
- Ability to speak effectively with customers or employees of the cooperative
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, volume, and weights
- Commercial Driver’s License Class B with Haz-Mat and Tanker Endorsements and/or the ability to obtain and maintain
- Inspector’s and Weigher’s license and/or the ability to obtain and maintain
- Pesticide Applicator License 1A and/or the ability to obtain and maintain
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Ability to deal with problems with several concrete variables in standard situations
- Ability to think quickly and perform a mental assessment of workplace hazards, take appropriate precautions, and choose appropriate PPE as dictated by need, regulation, and labeling
- Ability to make definitive decisions and clearly communicate those to staff and supervisors
- Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, and/or smell
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 65 pounds
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
- Regularly required to legally operate a grain elevator manlift with the door closed (300 lb. weight limit), climb stairs, and climb ladders to the top of the elevator (approximately an additional 30’-40’)
- Occasionally need to climb ladders that may range from 20’ to 180’
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
Important Details
- Locations: Wamego, Belvue, St. Marys, Topeka
About the Company
The company operates in Region 2 South, covering areas like Wamego, Belvue, St. Marys, and Topeka.
