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These efforts should be holistic, considering emerging genetics, production systems, and plant types, environment and labor resource constraints and cost inflation.\n\nResponsibilities\nMeet or exceed Enterprise business objectives:\n· Oversee execution of all aspects of supply management with growers to deliver on plan, including plant distribution, application timing, sharing of best blueberry farming practices, and supporting grower engagement on all aspects of blueberry production, including agronomic troubleshooting, quality challenges, supply chain processes, food safety and social compliance.\n· Effectively forecast and communicate supply outlook for blueberries, from week one through the life of the crop.\n· Develop the annual budget for Grower Operations Management OPEX, CAPEX, and headcount, and ensure adherence to budget throughout the year.\n· Ensure that Grower Operations is well represented with crisis management, leading crisis incidents as necessary.\nEnsure team members are supported in their core efforts by all functions throughout Driscoll’s.\nStrengthen the strategic outlook of the Enterprise:\n· Oversee region engagement in the development of the annual five-year strategic planning process, including overall growth, new genetic deployment and new production technology, labor requirements, environmental impact. Facilitate highly engaged grower participation in this process.\n· Ensure that Region plans are highly connected with company strategy at the global level, business unit level, and within blueberry business plans.\n· Directly support development and execution of critical supply strategies.\n· Manage the development of production targets by application for inclusion in the annual operating plan.\n· Maintain connections to global knowledge sources, both within Driscoll’s and external to the Enterprise.\nIncrease grower alignment and strengthen grower relationships:\n· Ensure grower relationships are productive for both parties, including accountability for the execution of our contractual business relationship, and development of meaningful relationships at all levels of growers’ organizations. Measurable through Grower Survey results.\n· Support the Blueberry Production Manager to connect closely with growers to develop well-informed multi-year business plans by grower that make sense for the grower and for the business.\n· Manage the portfolio of growers to ensure healthy and sustainable individual grower businesses and support the needs of the marketplace. 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