# Sales Agronomist III

**Company**: Bayer
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $90,640 - $135,960
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Agriculture
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152051

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## Description

At Bayer, we're visionaries driven to solve the world's toughest challenges. We're seeking a Sales Agronomist III to lead the development of a comprehensive business plan for assigned geography, focusing on high-growth growers.

This role involves:

- Developing a business plan with Field Sales Representatives for assigned geography

- Building relationships with key growers by providing value-added support, including agronomic insights and product recommendations

- Delivering squad goals through grower demand generation plans

- Providing whole-farm agronomic advice through education and product selection

- Driving trials related to Bayer Portfolio with targeted growers

- Offering additional support at key seasonal milestones

- Collaborating with Field Sales Representatives, Technical Advisors, and Partners on business planning

- Resolving performance issues and supporting key grower needs

- Making strategic recommendations to leadership

- Monitoring grower account inventory progress and tracking planned activities

- Managing an annual SG&A budget and program expenditures

- Travelling approximately 60% with significant face-to-face customer interaction

The ideal candidate has:

- Agility in communication approach

- Ability to speak to company practices regarding current and future products and corporate initiatives

- Demonstrated strategic thinking capability

- Digital fluency with industry tools

- Strong analytical, influence, innovative sales, and negotiation skills

- Excellent facilitation, presentation, written communication, and conflict management skills

- Ability to quickly start and grow strategic relationships and influence customer behaviour

- Strong task management, prioritisation, and ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

- Exceptional networking and consultative sales skills

Preferred qualifications include:

- Bachelor's degree in an agriculture-related discipline, business, or related field

- Minimum of 8 years of relevant agriculture experience in agronomy, technology, sales, or marketing

- Experience with sales teams and teams working remotely

The salary range is approximately $90,640 - $135,960 per year, with additional compensation including a bonus or commission. Benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, and sick leave.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic thinking
- digital fluency
- analytical skills
- influence
- innovative sales
- negotiation
- facilitation
- presentation
- written communication
- conflict management
- task management
- prioritisation
- networking
- consultative sales

### Nice to have
- agriculture-related degree
- 8+ years of agriculture experience
- sales team experience
- remote work experience

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