Sales Agronomist II National Brand-North Central IL

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.