Description:
The Sales Agronomist is responsible for advising key growers as a local expert on Bayer Crop Science products, technology, and new innovation to drive in-season success. You are expected to drive business growth with key growers by developing new relationships, identifying pain points, providing agronomic-driven advice and insights throughout the season.
Your Tasks And Responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of this role, Sales Agronomist II, are to:
- 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 with low or no Bayer share;
- 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 support 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;
- Provide additional support at key seasonal milestones such as crop planning, responding to in-season product needs, scouting fields, and monitoring harvest results;
- Collaborate with FSRs, TAs, and Seed Pros on regular business planning, understanding, and influencing growers' business objectives including KPIs and other relevant customer targets;
- Support key grower needs in season, including performance issue resolution;
- Make strategic recommendations to leadership on innovative ways to enhance business results;
- Connect internally with company peers on programs, situations, and issues to gain alignment and support to reach resolution;
- 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.
Who You Are
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
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;
- Position requires driving for the company that may fall under DOT/FMCSA jurisdiction, including hauling trailers, product, supplies, or equipment safely;
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in an agriculture-related discipline, business, or appropriate related field or equivalent years of experience preferred;
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant agriculture experience in agronomy, technology, sales, or marketing preferred;
- CCA preferred;
- Experience with sales teams and teams working remotely preferred.