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Feed Mil Management


Grain Merchandiser  Gagetown, MI  
Job Description

Job ID#:

167328

Job Category:

Feed Mil Management


Join one of the most successful AG based companies in the Midwest.  Employee owned and growing company that is offering an opportunity to grow your career in AG.

REASONS WHY THIS IS A GREAT JOB FOR THE RIGHT PERSON
  • Growing company with 14 locations in 3 states - advancement
  • Excellent reputation built over 76 years of business
  • ESOP program paid out every year since inception in 1986
  • Flat organization - reports to the GM
  • Learn from one of the best in the industry
  • Focus on working with local producers
  • Strong financial performance - extremely low debt
  • Company making significant capital improvements - Improve the facility/better serve the customer
  • Highly autonomous culture (identify the problem - then the solution)
  • Learn from the best, work for the best - be one of the best

Benefits & Features:
  • ESOP program fully vested in just 3 years (working 500 hours per year)
  • Exceptional benefit package
  • Customer diversity
  • Exceptional track record of providing their employee owners with great retirement performance

Summary:
Work with local leadership and regional customers to improve grain origination and marketing while maintaining the quality of grain receipts and the proper conditioning, storage and shipment.

The role you will play:
  • Grain origination and marketing
  • Contract management with local producers and commercial grain trading partners
  • Communicate daily grain bids, interact with customers using different methods (email, phone, text, Bushel app) and recap month end performance for financial statements.
  • Working with annual budgets in the $15-20 Mil range
  • Assist leadership with grain risk management: daily grain positions, exposure and hedging trades in the market
  • Annual planning of grain position: monthly production needs, stored quantities, timing in/out of harvest and buying/selling activities to support operations
  • Adhere to and reinforce the Merchandising Policy 

 
Job Requirements

 

Background Profile: 

  • AG Based degree - Fresh Graduates encouraged to apply
  • Want to learn the AG business - grain and feed operations
  • An educational understanding of grain trading platforms, terminology and logic 
  • Desire to work with local producers/elevators
  • Strong business acumen
  • Desire to live in rural Michigan
  • Grew up on a farm - ideal
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office 

Community:

  • The company is located in a very small rural community in the norther part of the "thumb" of Michigan
  • It is within a commutable distance of larger communities with requisite amenities
  • OR - if you like the rural life - this is the place
  • Just a half an hour from Lake Huron
  • A good place to set your roots




 

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