Description
At Bayer, we're seeking a Sales Agronomist II to join our team in Southern Illinois. As a Sales Agronomist II, you will work closely with Field Sales Representatives, Technical Agronomists, and SeedPros to build a comprehensive Bayer business plan and drive market share growth of Bayer products with identified growers with low or no Bayer share.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Building relationships with key growers by providing value-added support, including agronomic insights and product selection and placement recommendations
- Delivering squad goals through supporting the grower demand generation plan and support others' role responsibilities
- Providing whole-farm agronomic advice through education, product selection, and placement, keeping informed of agricultural research
- Driving trials related to Bayer Portfolio with targeted growers
- Providing additional support at key seasonal milestones such as crop planning, responding to in-season product needs, scouting fields, and monitoring harvest results
To succeed in this role, you will need to possess strong analytical, influence, and innovative sales and negotiation skills, as well as excellent facilitation, presentation, written communication, and conflict management skills. You will also need to be able to quickly start and grow strategic relationships and influence customer behavior.
In return for your hard work and dedication, you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, and more.
If you are a motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about agriculture and sales, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Required Qualifications:
- Agility in communication approach to effectively interact with organizations or individuals, balancing and building the dynamics of each relationship
- Ability to speak to company practices related to current and future products as well as corporate initiatives
- Demonstrate strategic thinking capability in prior experience, using business insights to project decisions
- Digital fluency with latest industry tools and a desire to make decisions using data to grow the business
- Strong analytical, influence, and innovative sales and negotiation skills with documented ability to drive results
- Excellent facilitation, presentation, written communication, and conflict management skills
- Ability to quickly start and grow strategic relationships and influence customer behavior
- Strong task management with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Exceptional networking and consultative sales skills to engage customers and build new relationships
- Ability to quickly learn and apply agronomic knowledge to promote a diverse range of options fitting customer needs
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in an agriculture-related discipline, business, or appropriate related field or equivalent years of experience
- 3+ years of relevant agriculture experience in agronomy, technology, sales, or marketing
- Experience with sales teams and teams working remotely
Salary and Benefits:
- Salary: $70,000-$105,000 per year
- Bonus or commission (if relevant)
- Comprehensive benefits package, including health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, and more
Application Instructions:
- To apply for this exciting opportunity, please submit your resume and cover letter to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
- We look forward to hearing from you soon!