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Three Rivers FS Company

Department: Main Office                                                          JOB CODE:     

REPORTS TO:  CFO                                                                             FSLA STATUS:Exempt                                                                                                                         Prepared Date: August 2026

PURPOSE AND SUMMARY STATEMENT

Responsible for procurement, scheduling, delivery and pricing of all plant food, crop protection, and seed. Maintains an adequate working inventory of products to meet company and customer needs. 

SUPERVISION AND LEADERSHIP

Supervises and develops the Agronomy Support Specialist positions through setting performance expectations, actively maintaining performance management standards, and managing supervisory expectations to maximize growth, profitability and customer satisfaction.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Effectively monitor product inventory, demand, usage, and transfers to maintain an acceptable working inventory. Strives to optimize or minimize inventories according to seasonal demands.

Collaborate with agronomy team to strategically develop a purchasing plan for plant food, crop protection, and seed based on markets, history, budget, season, and other variables.

Negotiate vendor contracts and pricing.

Reconcile vendor contracts.

Maintain current price sheet of plant food, crop protection, and seed products to optimize company profitability.

Order products and confirm the item is in the accounting system.

Lead seed ordering and end of season reconciliation.

Lead ariel application scheduling.

Oversee delivery of products including directing product logistics and distribution to intended destination.

Routinely communicate with managers and crop specialist to determine product needs, inventories, and transfers to maintain an adequate supply.

Manage inventories and identify products that need to be added or discontinued.

Maintains computerized records of orders and shipments, including the previous years.

Compile information to report to vendors.

Communicate with vendors on rebates and program dollars.

Perform general clerical duties to include but not limited to: photocopying, faxing, mailing and filing.

Answer phones and assist vendors with account questions.

Support staff in assigned project based work.

Ability to work independently, with fellow employees and other locations.

Ability to work extended hours and on-call as business conditions warrant.

Exercise initiative or, as directed, perform additional duties to meet the needs of the organization.

REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience 

Knowledge of standardized rules, procedures or operations requiring considerable training and experience to perform the full range of standard assignments and resolve reoccurring problems.  Associates Degree plus 1 - 3 years of prior experience.

Scope

Responsible for own work only; some direct or indirect control over expenses and revenue generation; may make some budgetary recommendations; accountable for results of own work.

Guidelines

Number and similarity of guidelines requires use of independent judgment in locating and selecting the most appropriate guidelines or reference; some interpretation required.

Complexity

The work consists of duties that involve various related steps, processes or methods.  The decision regarding what needs to be done involves various choices requiring the employee to recognize the existence of and differences among recognizable situations.  Actions to be taken or responses to be made differ in such things as the source of information, the kind of transactions or entries or other differences of a factual nature.

Significance and Purpose of Personal Contacts

Contacts with employees within the immediate department or related support units to obtain, clarify, give facts or information, which are more complicated or technical.

Language Skills

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 before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.  Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Certificates, Licenses Registrations

Must have and maintain a valid driver's license, satisfactory driving record, and the ability travel independently as needed.

Materials, Equipment and Software Used

General knowledge of office computers and operating systems.

Physical Demands

The work is sedentary.  Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work.  However, there may be walking, standing, bending, carrying of light items such as papers, books, small parts, driving an automobile, etc.  No special physical demands are required to perform the work.  The work may occasional require physical activity such as climbing ladders and lifting heavy objects (50+ pounds).

Work Environment

The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, residences, commercial vehicles, or outdoors, e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls and observance of fire regulations and traffic signals, etc.