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Organically Grown Company
51-200 employees
Grower-owned cooperative distributing organic produce
No salary listed
Portland, OR, USA
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- High School Diploma required; Four-year college degree preferred.
- Minimum 4 years of related experience including: managing custom programming projects, supporting or implementing enterprise systems, capturing and proposing solutions based on user requirements, creating software documentation and testing software.
- Demonstrated proficiency with one or more technology domains and the ability to learn and apply new and emerging concepts efficiently.
- Experience leading technical development projects of increasing complexity to successful completion.
- Must be flexible and agile to support OGC business needs and mission and may be assigned projects and/or other duties outside of normal job functions to meet the needs and demands of the business.
- Manage multiple conflicting priorities, deal with ambiguity, and exemplify process management, while maintaining composure and exercising organizational agility.
- Flexible and able to assist and interact with coworkers at all levels.
- Ability to collaborate with team members across all levels of the organization to identify, recommend and deliver improvements in technology solutions and to improve business bottom line.
- Ability to address short-term needs while aligning with the long-term requirements.
- Take initiative to identify and anticipate customer needs and make recommendations for implementation.
- Ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment, while remaining composed.
- Ensure smooth daily operations by making decisions that respect and embrace the company culture and diversity of beliefs, avoids disruptions, and supports an inclusive environment.
- Provide day-to-day direction, oversight, and project management to ensure team alignment with project goals, timelines, and quality standards.
- Manage scope, schedule, and resource allocation across multiple projects or initiatives; proactively addressing variances and trade-offs.
- Bring about timely, high-quality delivery of solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Work with the IT team, business coworkers, and software vendors to design and implement technical solutions.
- Coordinate across multiple teams and workstreams, ensuring dependencies are identified and managed effectively.
- Conduct regular 1:1s and team meetings to monitor progress, address concerns, and support professional development.
- Mentor and coach coworkers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and collaboration.
- Provides knowledge and process leadership in various Enterprise systems (such as ERP, TMS, WMS, HRIS, etcetera) development, usage, and best practices in a mid-size organization.
- Track and report on progress, using metrics and dashboards to communicate status, risks, and issues to stakeholders.
- Adheres to standards and guidelines established for the corporate network, server, and desktop environments.
- Provides back-up support to other members of the IT team as needed to ensure adequate internal customer service.
- Previous experience supporting the work of an organization operating 24 x 7.
- Previous experience working with an organization with aspirational sustainability goals.
- Familiarity supporting wholesale distribution companies and warehouse environments.
- Previous experience on teams tasked with re-architecting the Enterprise technological environment.
- Previous experience working in the produce industry.
- Experience leveraging and/or developing reusable services and micro-services.
- Understands systems inter-relatedness and data dependencies across the enterprise.
- Familiarity with intermediate to advanced SQL as it relates to application development and systems integrations.
- Familiarity with automated deployment and automated testing.
Organically Grown Company distributes organic produce in the Pacific Northwest through a grower-led cooperative, sourcing from member farms and delivering to retailers and consumers. Its governance and profits are shared among growers and employees, and its structure has evolved from a nonprofit to a grower-owned cooperative, then an S-Corp, and finally an ESOP; in 2018 it placed its shares into the Sustainable Food and Agriculture Perpetual Purpose Trust, the first U.S. company owned by a perpetual purpose trust. This trust prevents the company from being sold and requires it to operate to support organic agriculture and benefit its community. Its goal is to maintain a sustainable, mission-driven business that benefits organic growers, coworkers, and customers over the long term.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$2.7M
Headquarters
Eugene, Oregon
Founded
1982
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Perpetual purpose trust structure attracts mission-driven talent and customer loyalty.[5]
- Growing organic sector demand supports margin expansion for certified distributors.[3]
- Mission Fund strengthens grower relationships and community brand differentiation.[5]
What critics are saying
- UNFI's 50%+ market share in natural distribution undercuts OGC pricing power.[1]
- Mission Fund grants drain capital needed for warehouse automation investments.[1]
- Perpetual trust locks company into organic-only strategy, blocking regenerative pivots.[1]
What makes Organically Grown Company unique
- First U.S. company owned by perpetual purpose trust, ensuring mission independence forever.[5]
- Largest independent organic produce distributor in Pacific Northwest with 200+ employees.[5]
- Mission Fund grants $200k+ annually to organic agriculture and food justice.[5]
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Company News
Portland, Ore.-based Organically Grown Company has launched a new 'Organic is the Answer' consumer campaign.
Organically Grown Co., a wholesaler and marketer of certified organic produce, has named Brenna Davis CEO.
In 2020, Organically Grown Company (OGC) launched the OGC Mission Fund to help support growers, customers, and mission-aligned organizations in the organic and sustainable ag community.