Head of Agronomy Operations
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FinAgraCommercial Agriculture
Remote UK, Remote Spain, Remote, Remote UkraineFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Operations Management
Requirements
- Strong professional background in agronomy, crop production, plant science or a related field.
- Significant hands-on experience managing commercial agricultural production.
- Experience managing multiple production sites, farms or regions, ideally across different geographies.
- Relevant experience in production management within seed companies, global agribusinesses or large-scale farming organisations.
- Strong understanding of farm operations and the practical realities of executing agronomic plans.
- Demonstrated ability to standardise processes and maintain consistent production standards across dispersed teams.
- Experience managing and developing agronomists or production teams.
- Ability to identify local agronomy talents across the world on the targeted markets.
- Strong operational discipline and ability to identify where execution is deviating from plan.
- Comfortable working with data, KPIs, and structured operating processes.
- Willingness to spend significant time in the field and travel between FinAgra markets.
Responsibilities
- Own the operational implementation of FinAgra’s agronomic standards across farms and countries.
- Build systems that ensure farms in different locations operate according to the same production principles, standards and processes.
- Translate crop protocols and SOPs into practical farm operating plans, workflows, routines and controls.
- Lead and support local agronomy teams and ensure consistent execution across the organisation.
- Establish operating rhythms for crop planning, field monitoring, agronomic reviews and escalation of problems.
- Identify gaps between planned agronomic practices and actual field execution and drive corrective action.
- Work closely with Operations, Procurement and Product teams to ensure that agronomic plans can be executed reliably in the field.
- Standardise how farms report agronomic activities, risks and performance.
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