Seed Royalty Reporting Lead

The Seed Royalty Reporting Lead owns the timely, accurate reporting of seed royalty sales and forecasts to seed trait and genetic manufacturers, where precision is critical due to the financial impact. The role also collaborates with seed product managers and seed supply teams to drive accurate collection, management and reporting of seed product, genetic and trait data. The position collaborates with multiple business areas to provide guidance and drive process improvements across functions. It also supports AgriMine by delivering enrollment and metric reports to manufacturers and resolving manufacturer‑reported data issues.

Areas of Responsibility

Royalty Reporting Process Ownership (50%)

• Ensure Winfield United fulfills its reporting compliance requirements for seed traits/genetics vendors.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for seed traits/genetics royalty reporting.
  • Serve as subject matter expert and point of contact for internal Winfield United stakeholders, including finance, marketing, supply, product management and senior leadership teams.
  • Build relationships with and serve as a point of contact for seed traits/genetics vendors.
• Establish, standardize, and refine reporting processes that will enhance productivity and ensure data quality.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Seed supply, GPOS Compliance, and Finance teams) to improve royalty reporting data quality and align reporting results with their financial impact
• Analyze and develop actionable insights from year end royalty reports to improve marketing and product management decision making.
• Utilize advanced data manipulation tools to support reporting compliance efforts and troubleshoot vendor reported issues.
  • Utilize ad hoc data manipulation tools (SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, advanced excel formulas) to support royalty reporting accuracy and data quality.
  • Support Power BI Reports utilized by internal stakeholders to audit data.
• Mentor and train other team members and interns as needed.

Royalty Reporting Administration and Submission (40%)

• Submit all sales and forecast reporting for seed trait and genetic royalties to manufacturers
  • Deliver reports on or before required deadlines
  • Gather data for royalty forecasting and reporting from a variety of sources, including sales, orders, supply, production, and discards.
  • Analyze and manipulate data to submit reports in the required format.
  • Conduct data audits and reviews to ensure data accuracy.
• Manage and maintain a calendar of reporting deliverables across multiple seed manufacturers
• Maintain clear documentation of the data analysis used to create royalty reports (may be referenced during future audits).
• Communicate reporting and compliance status regularly to stakeholders.

AgriMine Manufacturer Support (10%)

• Create and distribute periodic enrollment reports for manufacturers
• Create and distribute periodic metric reports to manufacturers
• Resolve data issues reported by manufacturers

Required Experience/Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 years’ relevant business or industry experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft office suite such as Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio
• Basic proficiency with data manipulation tools (SQL, Power BI and advanced Excel skills)
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly to a wide-range of internal and external customers, including product managers and senior leadership
• Strong decision making and problem solving skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Great listening, written and oral communication skills with a ‘get things done’ attitude
• Experience working with ERP Systems
• Strong aptitude for analytical concepts and problem solving
• Ability to maintain focus and a positive attitude in ambiguous or high-pressure situations

Preferred Experience/Knowledge

• Experience in IT or business operations
• Experience with WinField United’s business systems
• Advanced data manipulation skills, including advanced Excel skills, Advanced SQL skills and experience building Power BI Reports
• Foundational knowledge of basic accounting concepts
• Knowledge of the agricultural industry and seed traits

Pay Range: $70,800 - $106,200

In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.

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