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Primary Location: United States (US) - Illinois  - Moline  
Function: Product & Process Management (CA)
Title: Manager, SaaS Infrastructure Strategy - 107171 
Onsite/Remote:Onsite Position

Your Responsibilities

As Manager, Solutions as a Service (SaaS) Infrastructure Strategy for Deere & Company World Headquarters located in Moline, IL, or Johnston, IA, you will be responsible for working across John Deere’s strategic business units with a global scope to understand the business needs and requirements for commercializing SaaS offers in all applicable markets.  This requires understanding product roadmaps, timelines, and priorities along with local laws, regulations, contracts, tax implications, and more to develop a strategy to enable our business goals.  Current company strategy, industry benchmarking, research, market trends, and other sources should be leveraged to develop innovative strategies.

• Evaluate and determine impact of local rules, regulations, contracts, policies, and guidelines on the SaaS Infrastructure business requirements. 
• Collaborate with business leadership and other functions to analyze research & trends, evaluate go to market strategies within our industries and benchmarks from other industries, and innovate new approaches to achieve our business objectives.
• Lead the planning and delivery of a wide range of information gathering and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on deliverables.
• Establish priorities and gather the resources necessary to staff work teams.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.
• Ensure risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately.
• Manage the strategy development and workstream plans to ensure all activities are identified, and appropriately organized and resourced to deliver project objectives.
• Determine and manage all core tasks, process improvements, and requirements by affected functional area to ensure success of the SaaS business model in each local geography.
• Provide project management expertise to multi-disciplined project teams.

VISA Sponsorship is NOT Available for this position

What Skills You Need

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including demonstrated ability to manage complex conversations in real time.
• Recognize the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Self-starter with strong independent judgement, problem solving skills, and ability to make timely decisions.
• Ability to use knowledge and skills to negotiate with stakeholders to determine optimal near term and long-term solutions to meet business needs.
• Understanding of independent dealer sales channels and/or other strategic resale partners.

• Ability to cultivate innovation to continuously find new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical executive team members to gain alignment to business strategies, allocation of resources, and update progress.
• Knowledge of go to market strategies including licensing advanced software for precision technologies.
• Understanding of financial terminology and concepts including revenue recognition, transfer pricing, taxation, operating profit, etc.
• Ability to work effectively across functions and business units.
• Advanced capability to prioritize work in the context of risks, activities, and stakeholders.
• Proficient with change management principles and techniques.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Strategic understanding of global software subscription/licensing business including an understanding of tax, accounting, and regulatory implications.
• Knowledge of go to market strategies including licensing and sales of advanced software and subscriptions.
• Experience leading a cross functional project team including representation from 7 or more functional areas.
• Experience working in the agriculture or construction industries.

Education

Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Masters Degree or equivalent level experience in Business, Management, Technology, Agricultural Sciences or Agri Business, Marketing discipline

What You'll Get

At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use

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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

The terms of the applicable benefit plans, and all company actions administering or interpreting these plans, continue to control. Deere & Company reserves the right to suspend, amend, modify, or terminate the Plan(s) in any manner at any time, including the right to modify or eliminate any cost-sharing between the company and participants. Changes, which can be made at any time, are made by action of the company's board of directors, or to the extent authorized by resolution of its board of directors, or by the Deere & Company Compensation Committee. In the event of a conflict between the language of the official Plan Documents and this document, the language of the official Plan Documents will control.

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