Job Description

Our Team:

We are comprised of diverse individuals who share many common values. We are smart, interesting, compassionate, driven people who believe in service excellence, enduring relationships, and act with integrity with our customers, vendors, and with each other.

Position Overview:

Responsible for the execution of the company’s strategic Land Care Maintenance Program initiatives. The overarching objectives of this role include enhancing land care services for SCI locations to increase cemetery aesthetics, drive cost avoidance and reduction, reduce water usage through technology implementation, and drive process improvements.

This position provides outstanding customer service to our locations on all types of cemetery maintenance support, including implementation and management of external land care teams using proven horticultural principles and cemetery maintenance standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide support to market leadership and location staff on all aspects of land care maintenance programs, including -

1. Planning, contracting, execution and management of vendor activities
2. Implementation and management of land care programs
3. Provide support for escalation and resolution of issues

• Collaborate with various land care and cemetery maintenance vendors, including –

1. Program concepts, scoping, planning and execution
2. Site assessment planning, program analyzation, capital improvement planning and program initiation
3. Negotiate vendor pricing
4. Facilitate program execution monitor progress, report findings and offer process improvement suggestions

• Develop and share best practices
• Facilitate technology implementation related to land care maintenance and irrigation water saving technology
• Build, support, and communicate training for cemetery land care and maintenance skills.
• Monitor and report results of land care programs
• Stay informed of emerging trends, technologies, and process improvements in land care management

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have:

• Proficiency in vendor sourcing and service and product procurement
• Knowledge of horticulture vendors related to landscape maintenance in cemetery operations
• Ability to understand and negotiate contracts
• Ability to handle difficult situations and communicate professionally and effectively
• A passion for personal accountability, achievement, learning, and continual improvement
• Superior attention to detail, project management, and organizational skills
• Ability to identify and recommend methods to resolve problems, simplify tasks, enhance outcomes, and optimize existing processes
• Strong business acumen, including budgeting, forecasting and analysis
• Ability to envision and drive improvements to the cemetery maintenance program
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to adapt to various stakeholder groups
• Focus on providing excellent customer service to internal customers

This role Requires:

• Requires remaining up to date on all aspects of land care within the company’s policies and procedures
• Understands local environmental challenges, labor challenges and cost pressures
• Is a non-management position with no direct reports
• Periodic seasonal travel (~25%)

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field preferred
• Three (3) years of experience working in the Buyer field
• Two (2) years of experience communicating with managers and executives
• Two (2) years of experience implementing new programs

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong financial and business acumen, including analytical ability
• An exceptional attitude and flexibility
• Ability to be strategic as well as hands on
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Creative thinker and problem solver
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong negotiation/influential abilities

SCI Overview - Who we are. What we do.

We are more than North America’s largest provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services. We are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters who are devoted to the communities where we live and work. We are more than 20,000 dedicated individuals who provide caring assistance to families in need, honor veterans and public servants and deliver lifesaving programs to help keep children and seniors safe.

We operate under the umbrella of the Dignity Memorial network of 1,800 funeral homes and cemeteries. Dignity Memorial providers care for more than 300,000 families each year and understand the importance of thoughtful, personalized arrangements. We believe creating meaningful ways to pay tribute to a loved one begins with compassion and is shaped by the understanding that each life is truly unique. For us, there is no greater responsibility than honoring and preserving the story of one’s life.

Benefits Options:

•Health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life)

•401K Retirement Savings Plan with company match

•Vacation and sick time

•Tuition reimbursement

•Funeral discounts, and more

SCI offers advanced on-line training resources, career advancement opportunities in the largest organization in the industry, attractive benefits, and a wonderful community to serve with plenty of culture and personality. For additional information regarding our company, please visit our corporate site at .

As used herein, “SCI” refers to Service Corporation International and its affiliated companies.

Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V

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