Sales & Marketing Manager-Biostimulants
·Develop the business sales
and marketingstrategy.
·Develop crop based
marketingcampaigns.
·Develop full plant
nutritionoffer.
·Developing monthly/annual
and seasonal sales targets per country, examining growth opportunities,
enabling sales improvements, product mix development and taking responsibility
for the performance against targets to achieve and maximizesales.
·Follow up on clients'
debts, credit limits and collections of debts through review and follow up on
customer indebtedness and due dates, payments andcollection.
·Implement sales campaigns
by preparing, supervising and follow-up, coordination and preparation for
seminars and awarenesscampaigns.
·Assist in providing
technical support aftersales.
·Develop tailored offers
(product & service) through a deep understanding of the businessand needs.
·Conducts regular and
consistent research on the latest market best practices and trends in order to
constantly keep the business at par or even ahead of other players and driving
greater sales results and marketshare.
·Research and identify new
business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends,
customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching
existing markets.
·Understand the needs of the
customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet theseneeds.
·Think strategically -
seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop
and improve thebusiness.
·Work strategically -
carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operationalchanges.
·Have a good understanding
of the businesses' products or services and be able to adviseothers about them.
·Researches and monitors
existing client base and industry developments and identifies potential new
productopportunities.
·Build strategic
relationships and partner with key industry players, agencies andvendors
·Prepare and monitor the
sales & marketing budget on a quarterly and annual basis and allocate funds
wisely related to marketingactivities.
·Ensure that all relevant
Company policies are well understood and implemented and where necessary with
customers, particularly compliance, competition law, local legislation and
commercialpolicy.
Requirements
·Bachelor Degree in
Agricultural engineering with strong agronomist and sales experience in
Biostimulants mainly in addition to Fertilizers andPesticides.
·5 years of technicalexperience.
·5-10 years’ experience in a
sales position, marketing, product management or similar role within a
fast-paced and dynamic businessenvironment.
·Strategic Selling,
Strategic Management /FinancialManagement.
·Understands market dynamics
and competitiveenvironment.
·Able to use market research
effectively to understand customer, markets, channels & understands
customerneeds.
·Agribusiness experience:
knowledge of croppingpractices
·Proactively establish and
maintain effective working team relationships with all support departments.
·Excellent command of
written and spokenEnglish.
·Strong knowledge of MS
office programs ex. (Excel, Word, Power Point,etc..).
·Tenacity and drive to seek
new business and meet or exceedtargets.
·Decision-makingskills.
·The ability to multitask
and prioritiesworkload.
·Project management and
organizationalskills.
·Negotiatingskills.
·The ability to thinkstrategically.
·A flexible approach to work
with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.