# Sales Agronomist II National Brand-North Central IL

**Company**: Bayer
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $72,000.00-$108,000.00
**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 and strive for a world where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is a reality.

As a Sales Agronomist II National Brand-North Central IL, your primary responsibilities will be:

- Working 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

- 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 supporting 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

- Collaborating with FSRs, TAs, and Seed Pros on regular business planning, understanding, and influencing growers' business objectives

- Supporting key grower needs in season, including performance issue resolution

- Making strategic recommendations to leadership on innovative ways to enhance business results

- Connecting internally with company peers on programs, situations, and issues to gain alignment and support to reach resolution

- Monitoring grower account inventory progress, tracking planned activities, and uncovering new issues or opportunities throughout the year

- Managing an annual SG&A budget and all program expenditures

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

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

- Agility in communication approach to effectively interact with organisations or individuals

- Ability to speak to company practices related to current and future products as well as corporate initiatives

- 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

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

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

- Strong task management with the ability to prioritise 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

The salary range for this role is $72,000.00-$108,000.00 per year, with additional compensation including a bonus or commission. Benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- agronomy
- sales
- marketing
- strategic thinking
- digital fluency
- analytical skills
- communication skills
- task management
- networking
- consultative sales

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in an agriculture-related discipline
- 3 years of relevant agriculture experience
- CCA

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