Breeding Nursery Global Support Manager (on site)

About the Opportunity

The Breeding Nursery Global Support Manager is essential for standardizing and optimizing processes across Breeding Nurseries worldwide. This role focuses on implementing homogeneous models in key strategic areas such as planning, order integration, and stock management. Overseeing a team will be responsible for compiling, analyzing, and communicating critical data to support informed decision-making, ensure efficiency, and facilitate global logistics.

 Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a standardized model for planning, order integration, stock management, as well as plant propagation planning files for all Breeding Nurseries per crop.
• Implementing continuous improvement and process management to ensure efficiencies and reliability in all Breeding Nursery processes (Planning, Logistics, Data analysis and reporting, Plant Propagation).
• Maintain clear and effective communication and visibility of all processes to all customers and stakeholders as needed.
• Provide logistical support to ensure plants arrive on time, in number, and with the right quality, updating regulatory requirements, monitoring and providing reports on Global Breeding Nursery material stocks.
• Data analysis and report on the plant propagation plan for Breeding Nurseries, keep databases up to date to ensure accurate information is available for stakeholders and R&D leadership communication.
• Develop global files, easy-to-manage for Global Breeding Nursery processes

    Candidate Profile

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Project Management, or a related field; additional training in quality management and budgeting is valued.
• Experience in managing teams and standardizing processes in agricultural or horticultural environments, especially within breeding nurseries.
• Areas of experience: logistics, Project Management, Continuous Improvement, Data Science, Agriculture/Horticulture.
• Bilingual: English-Spanish
• Experience managing people: 5+ years
• Availability to travel (US-Mexico mainly)

***This position requires the candidate to work on-site at our facilities in Watsonville, California. Please note that we do not offer remote work options for this role. Applicants should either reside within a commutable distance or be willing to relocate ***

***Candidates based in Mexico will be considered for this position, with their duties performed in our Nursery in Huamantla, Tlaxcala. ***

Compensation & Benefits:

The following information is provided in good faith as a general description of the salary range and benefits for the position posted.  The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate is dependent upon experience, skills, education, work location, internal pay equity, and other objective job-related factors.

Salary Range estimated for the Breeding Nursery Global Support Manager: $102,540 to $140,993 USD.

Driscoll’s is committed to a culture of care and offers an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. Other benefits include:  401(k) with employer match, profit-sharing participation, paid sick time, paid vacation, paid personal and family care leave, and a free Employee Assistance Program (EAP).  More detailed information regarding the benefits package, will be shared during the application process.