Production Specialist

Production Specialist - GROWMARK, Inc.

- Bloomington, IL

Company: GROWMARK, Inc.

City:
Bloomington

State: IL

SALARY RANGE: $60,100.00 - $82,662.50

GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services. Headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, GROWMARK owns the FS trademark, which is used by its member cooperatives. GROWMARK also owns and operates SEEDWAY, the largest full‑line seed company in the United States.

Assist the Production & Purchasing Manager and Lead in facilitating production and purchasing, coordinating internal/external workflows, researching and evaluating preferred vendors. Serve as a project liaison among the Enterprise Marketing team to ensure continuous communication occurs for production activities. Ensure that GROWMARK & FS marketing direction is creative, focused, branded, effective, and coordinated across all divisions.

Assist internal co‑workers and external customers to determine requirements for products and services and identify preferred vendors to meet those requirements. Research information, enter online orders with vendors, track shipments, and maintain open lines of communication between vendors and customers.

Follow production/purchasing departmental procedures and production standards. Implement operational efficiencies, decreasing turnaround times, and streamline work processes, including identification and execution of self‑service tools/platforms which better meet customer needs.

Assist in leading production process within Enterprise Marketing to assure production process is followed and completed for utmost customer service. Assist in providing feedback to the production team, including co‑workers, to ensure work is completed on‑brand and on‑time.

Assist in providing ongoing communication from preferred vendor selection and accurate quotes related to printing, duplication, display, decals, signage, etc. jobs with outside printing services and vendors. Assist in negotiating contracts/quotes with vendors, quote creation with purchase orders if needed, monitoring and communicating the status of orders including tracking of shipments to payment.

Resolve customer complaints and inquiries. Contact vendors regarding problems or questions with orders, and work with vendor and customer to identify and implement the appropriate corrective action.

Collaborate with marketing strategists and content analysts across the enterprise marketing team to ensure all enterprise marketing content supports the overall strategy related to goals, voice and brand.

Assist in supporting and executing additional enterprise marketing team duties including but not limited to overall brand administration and product divisions by regularly reviewing, updating, and producing guides, manuals and other supporting material/collateral when necessary.

Provide support and assist in end‑to‑end planning and execution of enterprise marketing initiatives in coordination with GROWMARK event planning and corporate sponsor(s) at select events, ensuring the experience is creative, focused, and effective.

Responsible to stay actively engaged and build overall personal awareness of current and emerging trends, best practices and other relevant information related to enterprise marketing with an emphasis on digital.

In collaboration with leadership, proactively research both industry and competitors' marketing approaches at the enterprise and regional level for awareness and overall effectiveness.

Stay current with design trends and consistently find fresh creative solutions.

Proficient in digital asset management systems such as Bynder, and workflow management systems such as Monday.

Confidently and concisely build recommendations and present to all levels of leadership. Ability to effectively communicate both technical and non‑technical information internally and externally.

Encourage, support, and promote innovative practices, ideas, and technologies…