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Lead and manage a geographically dispersed sales team to achieve sales objectives across agronomy, grain, animal nutrition, and energy product lines while maintaining supplier and customer relationships. | High school diploma or GED, 5+ years sales experience in agronomy or related fields, prior leadership experience, with a preference for a bachelor's degree. | CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture. Summary CHS, Inc. has an exciting opportunity for a sales leader to join the team. We are looking for Sr. Retail Sales Manager in Grand Forks, ND. The leader will plan and direct the sales and marketing of the organization's Agronomy, Grain, Animal Nutrition, and Energy products and services offered by the cooperative to customers through a team effort. This role is responsible for leading large sales teams who are geographically based in a remote environment. The Sr. Sales Manager will leverage technology and all available resources to implement business strategies that will achieve sales objectives and provide exceptional customer experience to the customers. The ideal candidate will be located in the Grand Forks, ND area managing a sales team from Hallock, MN to Crookston, MN. Responsibilities • Develop relationships with suppliers to assist, advise, and develop supply economics and strategies in region. • Forecast supply requirements by month and annual basis. • Manage P and L for an assigned territory. • Increase sales and margins by prospecting new customers and executing sales programs. • Facilitate positive long-term relationships with suppliers and customers to create long-term, repeat business. • Build and maintain positive working relationships with current and potential customers, vendors, and internal teams. • Prepare sales presentations, contracts, and proposals to ensure successful transactions. • Create, develop, and execute innovative sales and marketing strategies that capture maximum value. • Collaborate with other CHS divisions to leverage business relationships, growing the CHS enterprise. • Demonstrate effective cross-selling success achieving progressive customer share of wallet for multiple product lines. • Apply CHS sales cycle leading to specific targeted results; provide consulting services to build on core selling skills. • Proficiently finds ways to influence effective product placement. • Maintain and promote a strong safety culture and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions. • Other duties and responsibilities as needed or assigned. • Training Provided: Product training, CHS Sales Training, National Sales certification available, Computer Training on CRM Software Minimum Qualifications (required) • High School diploma or GED • 5+ years of experience in Agronomy, Grain, Animal Nutrition, or Energy Sales. • Prior leadership experience with progressively advancing level of leadership responsibilities Additional Qualifications • Bachelor's degree preferred in business and/or agriculture related program. • Previous experience leading a sales team Excellent communication and leadership skills • Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan. CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability. Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS.
Support and deliver infrastructure services across multiple locations, including requirements gathering, system upgrades, vendor coordination, and on-site technical support. | 2+ years as a business or infrastructure analyst with experience in infrastructure projects, network technologies, vendor management, and ability to travel locally; Bachelor's degree preferred. | CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture. Summary CHS has an exciting opportunity within the information technology group. We are searching for an experienced level Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to join the CHS IT Global Infrastructure Service Delivery team. This role supports work efforts that deliver infrastructure products and services to specific business units or regions within the enterprise. The BSA plays a role in the project life-cycle from identification of need through deployment and testing. The Service Delivery team is comprised of analysts and engineers that support over 800 CHS locations across the United States. Team members are either assigned to specific regions/terminals/plants or serve locations across the country. The BSA works with the team to incorporate enterprise infrastructure protocol and best practices. The BSA takes ownership to ensure consistent, reliable, and high-value solutions are implemented and supported. A core expectation of the BSA is the ability to be collaborative and work cross-functionally with a variety of IT teams, including Product teams, the CHS IT Service Center and Operators and systems architects. An equally important expectation is that the BSA works seamlessly with subject-matter experts, leaders and stakeholders from business areas and locations across the enterprise. In partnership with these groups, the BSA coordinates external vendors, establishes work plans and timelines, develops test and acceptance criteria, and implements initiatives that bring value to CHS and achieve business goals. To be considered for this position, candidates must reside in the greater western Washington area (Seattle/Tacoma). This position will work-from-home and travel as necessary to cover 20+ CHS locations in western Washington state including locations in Whatcom County and the greater metropolitan region. Compensation Data Hiring Range: $69,600 - $116,200 Responsibilities • Provide consistent and satisfactory customer service to internal customers and colleagues, operating with a strong sense of accountability and integrity. • Build relationships with internal customers, business partners, IT colleagues and 3rd party vendors and suppliers. • Follow all IT, Global Infrastructure and team policies and procedures. • Maintain and promote a strong safety culture and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions. • Work with other IT analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders to do the following: • understand and document the business case and how systems function end-to-end in the current state, focusing particularly on requirements and dependencies for infrastructure components or services • assist with the design, upgrade, and monitoring of systems • determine hardware required to support business systems and processes • Provide on-site technical support and issue remediation for core infrastructure, business systems and operational technology at CHS locations in the region as needed. • Lead or co-lead work efforts that aim to deliver core infrastructure services. • Lead technology preventative maintenance program for IT and business systems, including system refreshes and software upgrades. • Document use cases, business requirements and system requirements. • Coordinate staging, installation and configuration of new or upgraded systems. • Create diagrams and process flows. • Document and process issues, enhancement requests and feedback from business partners. • Manage and resolve incidents and break-fix issues using ServiceNow. • Procure new gear and hardware for work efforts using a standard enterprise purchasing system. • Participate and collaborate with the Service Delivery team using Agile & Kanban. • Recruit and manage Smart Hands contractors for on-site field work as needed. • Perform other responsibilities as needed or assigned. Minimum Qualifications (required) • High School Diploma (or equivalent) • 2+ years of experience as a business systems analyst, infrastructure analyst to include one or more of the following: • Experience gathering business and system requirements, writing use and test cases, and developing specifications, diagrams, and flowcharts • Experience with infrastructure centric projects working with desktop, server, LAN/WAN and firewall technologies • Experience with firewall, router/switch integration and implementation working with ISPs, vendors, and remote sites Additional Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Information technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Technology Management, or a related field • 2+ years direct or indirect leadership experience on small to medium size technology initiatives, projects or work efforts • Experience with point-of-sale platforms, especially Epicor, and fuel-management systems/fuel controllers Experience with industrial automation systems, like Kahler Automation • Experience working with Azure DevOps • Knowledge of system and network development methodologies including Agile • Knowledge of performance improvement methodologies including LEAN • Management or coordination of 3rd party vendors and suppliers • Ability to work in a cross functions team environment without direct supervision, with teams consisting of both IT and business process owners • Demonstrated comfort and knowledge of project coordination concepts, including drafting charters, establishing and managing to timelines and milestones, conducting stakeholder analysis, and drafting status reports • Familiarity with O365, especially Teams, Visio and PowerPoint • Demonstrated problem-solving and critical thinking skills Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse. Physical Requirements • Travel Expecation: This role requires 25% local travel, with occasional increases up to 40% CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan. CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability. Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS. #LI-CF1
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