16 sep
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Fall Creek®
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Chillan
16 sep
Fall Creek®
Chillan
Fall Creek is creating a world with better blueberries through its friendly, collaborative team spread across the globe. To help us accomplish this, we are seeking a qualified General Manager - Chile This position will be located in Chillan, Chile.
The Fall Creek General Manager - Chile will shape strategy, drive sustainable growth, and lead a talented team while strengthening the customer and industry relationships that move our business forward.
What you'll do at Fall Creek:
As the General Manager for Chile, you will lead the overall performance and direction of our Chilean business, connecting regional and global priorities to what our teams, customers, and market need locally. You'll have full P&L; accountability while leading commercial strategy, operations, customer relationships, and the development of a strong, engaged team.
You will
- Lead and execute Fall Creek's business strategy in Chile, turning regional and global priorities into clear plans and measurable results.
- Drive profitable growth through commercial execution, customer partnerships, market development, and increased adoption of Fall Creek genetics, products, and services.
- Build strong relationships with growers, customers, industry organizations, strategic partners, and other key stakeholders.
- Serve as the voice of the Chilean market, bringing customer, industry, and competitive insights into regional and global business decisions.
- Own the Chile business P&L;, industry revenue, margin, expenses, profitability, cash flow, budgets, forecasts, and resource allocation.
- Establish clear expectations and performance measures while holding leaders accountable for financial, commercial, and operational results.
- Ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality operations across production,
supply chain, logistics, and customer fulfillment.
- Make thoughtful decisions around investments, resources, costs, and priorities that balance current performance with sustainable long-term growth.
- Build, develop, and lead and engaged, customer-focused team while creating a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Develop talent and organizational capability while modeling Fall Creek's values of Excellence, Passion, Integrity, and Humility.
- Represent Fall Creek within the Chilean blueberry industry and ensure operations meet applicable legal, regulatory, ethical, and company requirements.
What you bring to Fall Creek:
- Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Agribusiness, Business, Finance, or a related field.
- 10 years of progressive business leadership experience with commercial, operational, and financial responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience owning and managing a P&L; and delivering against revenue, profitability, cost, and cash-flow objectives.
- Ability to translate business strategy into actionable operating plans, establish meaningful performance measures, and drive accountability.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, and business performance management.
- Demonstrated success building customer relationships,
leading and developing teams, and delivering business results.
- Strong leadership, communication, decision-making, and influencing skills.
- Experience working within a regional or global matrix organization is preferred.
- Experience within blueberries, berries, nursery production, plant genetics, produce, specialty crops, or broader agriculture is preferred.
- Knowledge of the Chilean agricultural sector and grower community is preferred.
- English and Spanish proficiency is preferred.
Who is Fall Creek?
We’re a US-based company with a keen focus on blueberry genetics, plants, and grower support delivered to the world’s premier blueberry growers. From our humble beginnings in Lowell, Oregon more than 40 years ago, we now also have wholly-owned nurseries in Mexico, Peru, Spain, South Africa, Netherlands, China, and Chile. Additionally, we have built a global team of the finest breeders, researchers, propagators and nursery professionals, grower support technicians, sales and customer service experts and more.
We’re a deeply-planted link in a general chain, ready to serve our customers and our industry throughout North, Central, and South America, Greater Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our mission is to serve the growers and to support the blueberry industry, helping to ensure growers maximize success through our delivery of the best genetics and plants, technical know-how and global market intelligence. To fulfill our mission, we focus on cultivating exceptional plants, building strong relationships and providing responsive customer service.
This is all part of how we’re helping to build A World with Better Blueberries™.
📌 General Manager - Chile (Chillan)
🏢 Fall Creek®
📍 Chillan