Technical Sales and Marketing Specialist - Vegetable Seed

Recruiter:

Mayfly Agri (Pty) Ltd

Job Ref:

PTA000605/EV

Date posted:

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Location:

Centurion, South Africa

Salary:

Market related

JOB SUMMARY:

A multinational agricultural company is seeking the above to accelerate product introduction, promotion and demand creation for both new and existing vegetable seed varieties in order to boost sales within the SA and surrounding countries i.e. Botswana, Namibia & Zimbabwe.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Minimum requirements for the role:

Must have a Bachelors Degree in Agronomy / Agriculture or equivalent
Minimum 5 years’ strong agronomic and sales experience in Vegetables Seeds will be required
Marketing experience will be advantageous
Good knowledge of the Vegetables Seeds market and customer needs is important
Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to travel nationally as well as 10% outside SA

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Organising demo and development trials for customers and promote the varieties during the customer visits.
Supporting the work of the Marketing & Sales teams by providing enough technical information on the product behavior and performance to help them in product positioning and sales.
Visiting some SADC countries to provide technical support.
Generating customer demand for Vegetable seeds relevant to the assigned geography of responsibility to support the Sales Representatives in achieving or exceeding their sales targets.
Ensuring demo field trials are executed and visited by customers for varieties in alignment with campaign plans.
Providing feedback from demo and development trials, registering it on the system and creating reports.
Managing the performance of trials and accompany the Product Manager during regular visits.
Supporting new product launches, executing the campaigns by delivering the key messages and promo materials to customers.
Functioning as the technical reference for the assigned vegetable crops by providing technical support on varieties to customers and sales team as well as marketing operations (trial visits, presentations, technical documents etc.).
Collecting market/competitor information and information on varieties performance and providing them to Product Managers.
Identifying customer needs and resources to ensure successful outcome.
Handling the technical side of the customers complaints.
Providing ad-hoc participation in local pre-HPC and functioning as key member of the respective local crop unit.
Providing technical training and development to our Sales Reps, seed dealers and other relevant channel partners.

Salary package, including benefits, are highly negotiable depending on experience gained

Please note that subsequent to the screening and shortlisting process, all further communication will be entered into, only with the shortlisted candidates

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