Global Program Manager MES

Global Program Manager MES

Date: Aug 21, 2026

Req ID: 104299

Location:

Duluth, GA, US

Brand: Fendt

Workplace Type: Onsite

Employment Duration: Permanent

AGCO is seeking a Global MES Product Manager to help define, guide, and execute the global vision for our Manufacturing Execution Systems product line. In this role, you will partner with a focused team to shape the product strategy, translate manufacturing needs into actionable roadmap priorities, and ensure AGCO’s MES solutions deliver meaningful value to manufacturing operations.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on manufacturing experience, a strong understanding of how MES solutions are used on the shop floor, and the ability to connect operational challenges with practical product solutions. You will assess customer needs, evaluate competitive offerings, and use market insight to guide product recommendations, development, investment priorities, cost considerations, and long-term growth strategy.

This role requires frequent collaboration with internal customers, our IT organization, manufacturing teams, Engineering and other product stakeholders across global regions. You will be expected to communicate clearly, build trusted relationships, facilitate productive discussions, and use sound judgment to balance customer feedback, business priorities, and operational realities.

As the subject matter expert and super-user for AGCO’s MES products, you will help establish product quality expectations, support roadmap alignment, and serve as a key voice in defining how our MES portfolio evolves to meet current and future manufacturing needs.

Not everyone can claim to feed the world, but it is part of our every day. Behind everything we do for our farmers, there is one AGCO team making it happen. We are proud to put our curiosity to work, building a better and more sustainable world. Join our extraordinary team today!

Your Impact

• Hands-on manufacturing experience. Turn fragmentation into a coherent streamlined architecture

• You bring order to a complex multi system landscape

• Your focus on UI UX means operators on the shop floor get tools that are usable not just functional improving efficiency and reducing errors.

• Your ownership of system performance keeps operations running reliably at scale

• Through close partnership with the Data Lake team, you turn shop-floor data into a strategic asset. Laying the foundation for better decisions, analytics and future AI / Automation initiatives across the company.

Your Experience and qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of MES exposure or related manufacturing systems experience. Key Problem-Solving Responsibilities

• Minimum 4-5 years of Manufacturing Engineering Experience.

• Align customer feedback with operational realities, business priorities, and product strategy.

• Advocate for and defend product priorities with other Product Owners within the Agile Process.

• Define and uphold product quality guardrails, serving as a key quality gate for customer-facing MES capabilities.

Your Benefits

• Health care and wellness plans

• Dental and vision plans

• Flexible and virtual work options (where available)

• 401(k) Savings Plan with company match

• Paid holidays and paid time off

• Health savings and flexible spending accounts

• Reimbursement for continuing education

• Life insurance and other supplemental insurance plan

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering eligible employees the ability to purchase AGCO stock at a discounted price

Your Workplace

This role follows AGCO’s on‑site work model, with employees primarily working from Duluth, USA a minimum of 4 days per week to support collaboration and teamwork.

We value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives.

Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!

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