Partner Experience Manager — Nexus Network Activation
Brief of the Role
The Partner Experience Manager, Nexus Network Activation is the hands-on implementation lead for AgVend’s growing Nexus network: getting ag retailers who have never used AgVend before live on a manufacturer partner’s program. This is a scaled onboarding role, not a traditional strategic account role. You’ll carry an account load in the hundreds, getting each one set up on the platform where they manage their account and place orders.This is not a traditional AgVend partner support role. These retailers are not existing AgVend customers; you are activating a manufacturer network from the ground up, one retailer at a time, working alongside your NAL counterpart, who owns the cross-functional and commercial side of the manufacturer relationship. Onboarding work covers the full setup arc: account setup and credential access, retailer staff training, configuration support, troubleshooting, and getting teams ready to place their first orders. At this stage of the rollout, this is manual and hands-on by design.
The role has two connected focus areas: getting retailers live on the platform, and helping the manufacturer’s own field team, their reps and agronomists, understand and champion it. You will do a blend of both, but may lean further into one side than the other.
You will also help build the education and support infrastructure: training materials, help content, and AgVend Academy courses for Nexus. Every retailer you onboard and every question you answer becomes the raw material for that library, and for the manufacturer networks that follow onto Nexus after this one.
Success here looks like retailers getting activated efficiently, teams walking away from training confident instead of confused, fewer repeat questions as your documentation gets better over time, and a manufacturer field team that can speak about the program with real confidence because you gave them what they needed.
This network only works because someone sits at the center of it: the retailer’s advocate, the manufacturer’s translator, and the face of AgVend, all in one person. That’s you.
Your Background
You thrive in structured, high-volume onboarding or implementation work and don’t lose quality as the queue grows. You are energized by taking someone from zero to confident on a new system, comfortable being one of the first people to define a process rather than inherit one, and can hold a large number of relationships at a lighter touch without letting any one of them feel like a number.You are curious about AI and already use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot to work smarter, and you see AI as the only way to onboard this many accounts without burning out. Experience with financial services, incentive programs, or other complex partner-facing programs is a plus. Experience in ag retail or digital ag technology is a plus.
Qualities We Seek
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Team-oriented
You seek help when needed, are open to constructive feedback, and have never uttered the words “Well, that isn’t my job” in a sentence.
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Excellent communicator
You communicate clearly with retailers who have no prior relationship with AgVend, with the manufacturer’s field team, and with internal teams, both verbally and in writing. You can translate program and platform mechanics for a non-technical audience.
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Solutions-driven
You relish a good challenge and work relentlessly to overcome hurdles. When a retailer’s onboarding hits a wall, you try a different angle before escalating.
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Curious
You seek to understand a retailer’s workflows and the manufacturer’s program rules well enough to anticipate where onboarding will get stuck before it does.
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AI-forward
You actively use AI tools to research, draft, summarize, and accelerate your work. At this volume, AI isn’t optional. You experiment with new workflows and share what works with the team.
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Humble
You recognize that arrogance is toxic and that modesty is key to being a good teammate. You are comfortable saying “I don’t know” and then going to find the answer.
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Adaptable
You enjoy standing up something that doesn’t exist yet. When the process changes, or turns out to be wrong, you rebuild it instead of defending it.
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Ag-savvy
You understand, or are willing to deeply learn, the crop input purchasing process and how a manufacturer partner program fits into a retailer’s buying season.
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Relationally strong
You build trust fast with retailers who didn’t choose AgVend and don’t know us yet. You understand that for this group, you may be the only face of AgVend they ever see.
What We Expect of You
You do what you say you will do.Retailer Onboarding and Activation
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Serve as the primary point of contact for a high-volume portfolio of ag retailers activating on the platform — expect a caseload measured in dozens at a time as the network scales.
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Run structured onboarding for each retailer: account setup, credential access, retailer staff training, configuration support, troubleshooting, and getting teams ready to place their first orders.
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Because this is a new, manual process, refine the onboarding playbook as you go. Document what works, cut what doesn’t, and leave a repeatable process behind for the NALs and PEMs who follow.
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Coordinate closely with your NAL counterpart, who owns the cross-functional and commercial side of the manufacturer relationship, so every retailer gets one coherent experience.
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Resolve retailer support requests in Zendesk with speed, accuracy, and clear communication once retailers are live.
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Route escalated issues to Digital Solutions, Product, or Engineering with enough context that the receiving team can act without a follow-up conversation.
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Know the manufacturer’s retailer program and Platform inside and out: eligibility rules, account and order management, and how the retailer experience differs from a standard AgVend storefront.
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Understand the retailer’s perspective: they did not choose AgVend, the manufacturer did. Build trust with a group that has no existing relationship with us.
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Translate program mechanics (terms, account rules, requirements set by the manufacturer) into plain language a retailer’s staff can act on.
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Train the manufacturer’s own field team, agronomists and reps, on how the Platform and the manufacturer’s program work so they can champion adoption with the retailers they call on.
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Build and deliver enablement sessions tailored to a non-AgVend, non-technical audience who represents the manufacturer, not the platform.
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Act as the feedback loop between the manufacturer’s field team and AgVend product and support so field-reported issues get captured with enough context to act on.
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This is a new product line with a thin content library. Build it as you go: help center articles, AgVend Academy courses, and onboarding scripts specific to this network and the Platform.
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Partner with the Knowledge Manager to structure this content so it holds up as other manufacturer partners join Nexus after this one.
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Capture every resolved onboarding question. It becomes training data so the next retailer, and eventually Rooster, gets served faster.
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Use AI tools daily to draft onboarding communications, training materials, and retailer troubleshooting responses at the volume this rollout demands. This cannot be a fully manual process for long, and you are expected to help make it not one.
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Build and maintain AI-assisted onboarding templates. Most retailer setups follow the same pattern, so your workflows should scale accordingly.
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Actively experiment with new AI workflows and share what works with the wider Partner Experience team.
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Participate in each phase of the network launch: an in-person kickoff with the manufacturer’s team, the build-out of materials and key retailer conversations, and the full retailer rollout.
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Flag capacity, sequencing, or content gaps early. This is a build-as-we-go program, and surfacing risk before it becomes a retailer-facing problem is part of the job.
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Provide structured updates to the Director of Partner Experience and your NAL counterparts on onboarding pace, retailer health, and blockers.
What Success Looks Like
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Retailer Activation
The full retailer cohort for this network is onboarded to the Platform on schedule, with account setup and staff training completed to a standard that holds up without ongoing hand-holding.
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Program Adoption
Retailers actively use the platform to submit orders and manage their accounts, and the manufacturer’s field team actively promotes the platform because they understand it.
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Content Foundation
The Nexus knowledge base and training library are strong enough that onboarding the next manufacturer network is dramatically easier than this one was.
What You Can Expect of Us
We do what we say we will do.-
People first
We will seek to maximize your personal growth and long-term career success during your time with AgVend and beyond. We value our employees’ lives and aspirations outside of the company.
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Ground floor of Nexus
You are one of the first people to build what network activation looks like at AgVend. What you build for this first network partner becomes the template for every manufacturer partner that follows.
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Tools to do your best work
We invest in AI tools, training, and infrastructure so you can spend your time on the work that matters most. You will never be expected to grind through problems that technology should solve.
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Clear expectations
Performance goals are set quarterly and are rooted in our company values and objectives.
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Competitive salary
We know money isn’t everything, but you will be properly compensated for your work.
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Company ownership
You are fundamental to the success of AgVend and will receive stock options in the company.
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Health insurance
We want you and your family happy and healthy, so we have industry-leading health coverage for all of our employees.