Description

Stotz Equipment, a 25-location John Deere Dealer is looking for a full-time Precision Ag Manager. Are you a determined and friendly professional with an enthusiasm for the latest technology along with a desire to advance company efficiency and abilities? If so, you could be the right fit for our family-run business whose purpose is to create a better life for our families, communities, and those connected to the land. Our culture values collaboration, autonomy, and growth; if that sounds like the kind of company you want to work for, you should apply now. Our core values of Quality, Integrity, Loyalty, Caring, and Community are woven into everything we do and have enabled us to positively impact our employees, customers, and communities for the last 75 years. 

Lead Precision Technology development and implementation for the area including the execution of the John Deere Precision Ag strategy. Work closely with internal and external resources to identify customer and market needs in order to develop comprehensive services and solutions to address those needs.

What you’ll do

• Develops the strategic direction in the development, execution, and delivery of Precision Technology
• Provides leadership for Precision Ag products
• Partners with service, parts, and sales management in the development and execution of services and solutions to identify and address customer needs
• Identifies and secures elements required for delivering solutions and manages internal and external relationships.
• Sets goals and identifies precision farming products for mainstreaming throughout the dealership
• Manages the adoption of new technology and product offerings
• Identifies the scope, direction, and business model for offering consulting services
• Develops and contributes integrated solutions elements of the dealership strategy, marketing, and employee and customer training plans
• Ensures that stocking/inventory requirements for solutions enablement are met and act as a liaison with Parts Managers as needed
• May provide solutions-based business consulting services to customers (i.e., advising customers on optimizing performance, reducing costs, operation efficiencies, etc.)
• All other assigned duties

Qualifications

What’s required

• 5 years experience in an agriculture-related role
• Dealership sales, service, training, or other related work experience preferred
• Ability to operate with a solutions approach and identify existing/emerging customer needs
• Ability to think strategically
• Demonstrates leadership, organizational, management, interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to work flexible hours and travel to store locations and customers

What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to be involved in a company that is committed to excellence
• Potential to grow in your career
• A comprehensive employee benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and 401K plans
• Flexible work environment
• An opportunity to work with some of the best in the industry

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and a telephone.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements (i.e. having the visual acuity to read words and numbers on the computer screen and on paper.)
• Hearing ability is sufficient to communicate with others in person or over the phone.
• Light to moderate lifting may be required (up to 25 pounds)
• Ability to reach, stoop, kneel, and bend as needed.

About the Company

The company, founded as Arizona Machinery in 1947 has been under the same family's leadership since. Tom Rosztoczy, CEO of Stotz Equipment since 1998, has grown our company from 3 to 25 dealerships operating in 8 western states. In 2013, all dealerships were consolidated under the name Stotz Equipment. The name Stotz -- a shortened version of the family's last name -- was suggested by employees to ensure our growing company never loses sight of its family history. With a history of success, Stotz is always looking toward the future. Growth plans for the future will offer you an ever-changing and challenging environment with immense professional growth opportunities. Stotz Equipment believes that people are the company's number one asset. People are the starting point in the company's Circle of Success. Every employee at Stotz strives toward our ambitious vision of "To be the Best Equipment Dealer in the World".