Connected Worker Manager - Decatur, IL

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Job Title: Connected Worker Manager - Decatur, IL
Location: Decatur, IL, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Connected Worker Manager, North America

Manufacturing Analytics and Transformation (A&T)

This is an exempt level position.

Preferred Location: North American Headquarters in Decatur, IL

Position Summary:

As a Connected Worker Manager on the Manufacturing Analytics and Transformation team, you will have a pivotal role in advancing how our workforce connects, learns, and grows. You and your team will design and implement ADM's Global Connected Worker Strategy, describing the use of digital tools and data systems that empower our workforce now and in the future.

This role is more than just technology-it's about shaping the employee experience through intuitive systems, meaningful data, and scalable learning opportunities. You'll partner across teams to elevate performance, enhance engagement, and foster a culture of continuous development.

Strong leadership skills are essential to build, develop, and sustain a high-performing team that delivers innovative, reliable, and scalable connected worker solutions across Global Operations.

About the Connected Worker Team

This team of engineers and specialists will connect shop floor operations with executive decision making. This involves devices used by front line employees and their accompanying technology stack along with dashboards, reports, and other tools used by managers and executive leadership.

You and your team will work closely with business and operations leadership, operational and global technology teams, the front line workforce, process automation, and other key partners and stakeholders to deliver value and replicate successful strategies across the organization, from design to change management, support, and sustainment.

Job Responsibilities:

Improve how the workforce leverages technology
- Maintain a strong partnership with the workforce to understand their needs, including front line employees across the organization.
- Represent the voice of the employees and advocate for them in strategy sessions and other meetings-ensuring solutions align with real-world experience and support day-to-day success
- Translate data insights into actionable feedback loops that drive workforce engagement and operational excellence.
- Partner with operations leadership to align priorities, including Global Learning and Development to design, create or manage training.
Drive innovation
- Lead the definition of technology strategies, roadmaps, standards, and architecture
- Implement and sustain technology that supports performance and growth.
- Lead or support cross-functional solution design involving mobile devices, supporting infrastructure, software applications, cloud platforms, and security.
- Implement solutions that are prioritized by executive leadership, leveraging a deployment plan to maintain accountability and communicate progress
- Stay connected to technologies available in the market and used in the industry in priority areas or categories.
- Manage the lifecycle of connected worker solutions process to ensure those solutions remain effective.
- Help maintain and develop technical standards
- Lead the creation of scalable training and enablement programs built around mobile platforms and digital workflows.
- Develop, track, and report metrics to represent status and performance of connected worker solutions. Maintain a strong review and response
Lead a high-performing team
- Coach and mentor your team; nurture a culture of innovation, trust, and career development.
- Provide clear direction, set expectations, and align team goals with organizational objectives.
- Coach, mentor, and support team members in their professional growth and career development.
- Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback.
- Support other teams that want to consider other ideas and technologies
Some travel and on-call work are expected as part of this position

Required Skills:

Experience in supporting plant operations and 24/7 operating requirements
Experience with mobile worker platforms
Knowledge of data visualization and automation best practices
Strong interpersonal collaboration skills and ability to work across technology domains
Strong verbal skills and ability to communicate both upward and down
Excellent technical design skills

Required Qualifications:

Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
Experience working with enterprise-level technologies
Experience providing support for production systems.
Ability to travel or work on-call as needed

Excited about this role but don't think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.

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Job Post Date: 08/26/25