Agronomy Outside sales

Job Summary:

As a Sales Agronomist with Pride Ag Resources, you will be responsible for partnering with current customers to maintain the customer base, cultivate new opportunities with prospective customers, and continue to drive the company’s growth in agronomic sales and services.

Summary of Essential Job Functions:

Creates and develops intimate relationships with targeted and assigned customers focusing on top business and relationship accounts.

• Responsible for consulting with producers and making appropriate recommendations of fertilizer, seed, chemical and GPS products and services.
• Works with patrons in a courteous and professional manner, soliciting new business as opportunities are presented.
• Creates, delivers and implements agronomic solutions for producers with the goal of improving customer’s ROI and increasing the agronomy bottom line.
• Develops an intimate knowledge of brands and delivers timely and accurate communication to targeted producers to drive value added sales.
• Manages customer accounts to include developing whole farm plans, forecasting agronomy inputs, price negotiations, technical coordination, contract preparations, contract closures, complaint resolution and contract collections.
• Expands on current knowledge of agronomic products, trends, problems and challenges to make educated recommendations to producers.
• Establishes and maintains effective public relations through customer education and the promotion of new products and services.
• Responsible for maintaining current customer base and developing new business.
• Calls on prospective producers to build new business and to increase sales.
• Responsible for maintaining high customer satisfaction by handling complaints professionally.
• Provides timely and accurate communications, demand forecasts, customer complaints and sales reports and timely requests for competitive pricing, etc.
• Assists in field scouting and plant operations.
• Other duties as assigned by 6Agronomy Division Manager.