The Morning Star Company

 
The Company

The Morning Star Company and its affiliates operate three tomato processing facilities leading the California and world industry with about 40% of the California/U.S.A. crop. In addition, we have tomato growing, transplanting, harvesting and trucking operations, all with employment of over 500 year-round and over 3,000 seasonal colleagues. Our annual sales have grown from zero to over $1 billion. The company is known worldwide for its innovation and integrity.

Our company's personnel is organized under our philosophy of "Mission Focused Self-Management." We operate as colleagues without formal titles or an appointed hierarchy of authority. Authority is dynamic, with your Mission as your guiding principle of action and leadership influence and success based on integrity, competency, effort and performance--just like in your personal life. We expect new Colleagues to maintain and advance our culture of Mission Focused Self-Management.

Your Mission

Your Mission will be to develop new commercial opportunities to maximize the utilization of our current human and physical assets and capabilities and/or to develop new ones. Considerations for the Position Morning Star was founded and is still owned and operated by the founder who desires to advance the company's talent base to ensure operational and financial sustainability and to grow based on excellent execution of existing and new capabilities. It is expected that you will work more or less with the founder in researching new opportunities or develop them on your own initiative. The enterprise has always had a strong entrepreneurial bent. The person who will be successful in this enterprise will have already materially fulfilled their drive for self-esteem such that they can concentrate their energies toward contributing to performance versus politics.

This individual must be willing and able to devote significant time and energy in pursuing their Mission. This is a "shirt sleeves" environment – hands on, do it yourself, but with considerable human and physical resources to pull on. Qualifications Advanced degree(s) in pertinent discipline(s) are desirable, however values, character and capability will trump formal education and much experience. Passion, integrity, honesty, work ethic and curiosity with technical capability will trump most everything else. However, an engineering bent and strong quantitative analysis capability is essential.

The term "Self-Management" is used frequently herein. A "Self-Managed" Colleague is one who: • Understands their Personal Commercial Mission; • Understands how to achieve their Mission; • Passionately strives to achieve their Mission, and: • Does so absent direct supervision from another person.

Compensation: $120,000 to $200,000. Compensation will be negotiated based on the proven capabilities. We will entertain any arrangement which is mutually beneficial. We are interested in developable as well as proven talent. 

Benefits: Morning Star offers a top-tier, comprehensive health plan, including medical, dental, and vision, and we pay the full monthly premiums for the Colleague and all eligible family members. The company also contributes to Colleagues' Health Savings Accounts. Year-round Colleagues are eligible to enroll in our 401K plan, with 4% match.