Sales Agronomist Opportunity
About the Role:
This role is designed for an individual who has a genuine passion for engaging with customers and providing product recommendations. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in an autonomous position, being the main point of contact for local Growers, distribution partners and agricultural key influencers in their designated territory area.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Engage and promote products to increase demand and strategically achieve targets and market share growth.
2. Maintain an appropriate level of technical knowledge to enable confident translation of technical product information into commercial benefits for customers.
3. Work closely to sell and promote products to the distribution channel, closing the sale at each opportunity.
4. Prepare and execute a territory and key reseller business plan that fits with the overall company strategy.
5. Organise and establish appropriate field activities to promote products through demonstration plots, trials, grower field days and grower meetings.
6. Forecast stock allocation, control, and distribution timelines for customers.
7. Accurately produce sales forecasting, monthly sales reports and updates to management.
8. Ensure effective allocation of representative time, promotional items, and promo expenditure to achieve optimal return on investment.
9. Keep accurate records of customers to ensure continuity of information on the territory, customer knowledge to enable sales activities to be targeted to customer needs.
Requirements:
10. Proven agriculture technical knowledge, ideally with a couple of years of sales agronomy experience, or sales within the agricultural industry.
11. Genuine passion for engaging with customers and providing product recommendations.
12. Comfortable spending a substantial amount of time on the road and in the field.
13. Be IT literate, with confidence navigating MS Outlook, Excel, Word and CRM databases.
14. Ability to produce accurate forecasting and monthly sales reports.
15. Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
16. Excellent time management skills.
Benefits:
The successful candidate will be provided with all the tools necessary to perform their role, including a tool of trade vehicle, mobile phone, laptop and fuel card.
Culture:
We are committed to creating a culture where people can be their best, in an environment that values inclusion, diversity and flexibility. We encourage applications from individuals with diverse educational backgrounds, professional knowledge, personality types, thinking styles and life experiences.