Market Development Agronomist

Land O'Lakes; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle provided

Base salary plus commission

Job summary

Land O'Lakes is seeking a Market Development Agronomist to serve as the local agronomy expert, coaching retailers and growers, driving Advanced Acre execution and pipeline opportunities. The MDA collaborates with SDMs and Product Managers to shape market strategy and educate teams on CPP, seed products and services.

The role is remote/virtual within the East KS/Garden City KS territory, requiring up to 50% travel to customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in agriculture or related field plus 5 years of industry experience; or 10 years of agronomy experience with 1–2 years of leadership
• Advanced degree in agronomy preferred but not required
• Experience coaching, training and executing technical agronomic decisions and educating others on products and programs

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical specialist leveraging the Advanced Acre strategy to differentiate our system
• Enable creation of new markets by combining products, data insights and services to drive revenue growth
• Coach Advanced Acre solutions strategy to retail sellers and growers with internal sales team
• Partners with Sales Development Manager on targeted sales activities with technical expertise during calls
• Conduct technical training on CPP & Seed products and delivery via video/digital platforms
• Facilitate virtual services and agronomic/product delivery
• Provide Innovation/Insight trials direction and execution to owners and internal staff
• Inform product pipeline by providing local market feedback to Product Managers
• Create local insights and differentiated product positioning for seed and CPP selling
• Assist Product Managers with internal trainings with sales teams

Skills

Agronomy expertise

Coaching & training

Communication skills

Leadership experience

Relationship building

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in agriculture or related field

Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in agronomy preferred

Tools

Salesforce

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Teams

Zoom

Job description

Market Development Agronomist

The Market Development Agronomist (MDA) is the local agronomy expert that coaches, influences, and creates opportunities with key owners and sellers. They drive demand of products, innovation, services, and connections to new markets using their technical expertise in agronomy/seed skills and advanced understanding of the services platform. Conducting customer agronomy training, communicating technical subject matter, and supporting business transformation around total acre solutions. The Account Plans will be used to determine the specific owners, sellers, and Sales Development Managers (SDMs) that the MDA will work with.

This position is remote/virtual and can work from home but must be located within the territory in order to partner directly with our customers.

The East KS/Garden City KS area would be ideal.
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Job Responsibilities:

40% Customer Facing: Advanced Acre Execution and Coaching w/Retail Sellers

• Serves as the technical specialist in leveraging the Advanced Acre strategy to differentiate our system.
• Enables the creation of new markets by combining products, data insights and services to drive revenue growth and capture new markets.
• Coaches the Advanced Acre solutions strategy to assigned retail sellers and designated growers in conjunction with internal sales team as determined from Account Plans.
• Partners with the Sales Development Manager on targeted sales activities, providing technical expertise and knowledge during sales calls and visits with customers.
• Conduct technical training opportunities to include CPP & Seed products, services platform for identified retail locations, and Answer Plots in collaboration with SDMs
• Facilitate virtual services, agronomic and product delivery through identified video and digital platforms.
• Provides Innovation/Insight trials direction and execution to identified owners and internal staff

40% Non-Customer Facing: Partner with WinField United Product Managers

• Help inform and drive product pipeline by providing feedback and representation from local market.
• Create local insights and differentiated product positioning to aide in the seed and cpp selling story for the retail selling base in specified geography.
• Assist Product Managers to do internal trainings with Business Unit sales teams.

20% Other Activities

• Actively engage in enhancing skill sets through the Center of Excellence (COE), internal training meetings, etc.
• Collaboration with key regional influencers (ex: basic partner agronomists)
• Attend regional/national meetings through business planning and creation of training plans, materials, and pre-call preparation.

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in agriculture or business-related field plus 5 years of industry experience; or an equivalent of 10 years of successful work experience in agronomy and recommend 1-2 years of people leadership experience
• Advanced degree including MS or PhD in agronomy or closely related field is preferred but not required
• Experience coaching, training, and executing technical agronomic decisions and developing and educating others on products, services, and programs
• Ability to create working relationships internally and externally
• Demonstrated success in interacting with key stakeholders and more senior leadership
• Experience diagnosing customer expectations and needs and responds promptly
• Proactive communicator with exceptional written, verbal, and formal presentation skills
• Trustworthy with a strong level of personal commitment
• Ability to make sound decisions and complete tasks in a fast-paced work environment
• Proven ability to coordinate and collaborate with multiple stakeholders and to influence at all levels
• Ability to work independently and manage productivityExperience demonstrating agility and leading/adapting quickly to change
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint); virtual collaboration tools (Teams, Zoom); and CRM software (Salesforce)
• Must have current and valid state driver's license

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Essential Functions/Work Environment:

• Ability to travel up to 50% (daily, extended hours and some overnight stays) to customers within an assigned sales area.
• You will be provided with a company leased vehicle.

Compensation

This is a sales role that is compensated with a target mix of base salary plus commission.
Base salary is dependent upon experience/tenure and generally ranges between: $93,360 - $140,040
Target bonus is: Thirty-Two Thousand

In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.

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About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

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