Sales Agronomist II

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, you will work 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.

Key responsibilities:

• Build relationships with key growers by providing value-added support, including agronomic insights and product selection and placement recommendations
• Deliver squad goals through supporting the grower demand generation plan and supporting others' role responsibilities
• Provide whole-farm agronomic advice through education, product selection, and placement, keeping informed of agricultural research
• Drive trials related to Bayer Portfolio with targeted growers
• Collaborate with FSRs, TAs, and Seed Pros on regular business planning, understanding, and influencing growers' business objectives
• Support key grower needs in season, including performance issue resolution
• Make strategic recommendations to leadership on innovative ways to enhance business results
• Monitor grower account inventory progress, track planned activities, and uncover new issues or opportunities throughout the year
• Manage an annual SG&A budget and all program expenditures
• Travel approximately 60% with significant face-to-face customer interaction

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• 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

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in an agriculture-related discipline, business, or appropriate related field or equivalent years of experience and CCA
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant agriculture experience in agronomy, technology, sales, or marketing
• Experience with sales teams and teams working remotely

Benefits:

• Health care
• Vision
• Dental
• Retirement
• PTO
• Sick leave

Salary: $70,068.82 - $105,103.24