Senior Market Development Agronomist
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s agricultural supply chain business, where we seamlessly connect farming customers with food, feed and industry.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Sr. Market Development Agronomist will partner with sales leadership and other members of the location team to develop and provide agronomic and crop production solutions for our farm customers to help further commercial goals. In this role, you will be involved in new product development and positioning to develop the assigned market.
Key Accountabilities
- Serve as the domain specialist in crop production for the site to mentor, develop, present training and become a source for internal and external clients for crop production.
- Execute on organization’s crop input market development plans by participating in customer field meetings, coordinated product trials, customer agronomy events, marketing support and delivery of crop planning services.
- Develop and maintain strategic relationships with our key crop input suppliers.
- Provide vision for the geographic region using domain specialist knowledge in agronomy to identify new crop opportunities for the organization and our customers driving incremental revenue.
- Partner with existing and prospective customers, collaborating with location sales teams, focusing on crop planning, seed selection, nutrient, weed, disease and harvest management, to help them produce better crops by making sound crop production and risk management decisions.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Diploma/Certificate or Bachelor’s degree in agronomy, related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum four years of directly related work experience.
- Eligible for membership in the Provincial Institute of Agrologists. Future requirement will be to obtain CCA accreditation.
- Have proven working knowledge of plants, crops, and soil management and related areas
- Ability to work overtime and weekends when needed.
- Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency with the MS Office suite
- Active listening and verbal and written communication skills
- CCA or PAg designation.
- Experience influencing internal and external customer behaviour.
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Position Information
- Relocation assistance will be provided for this position anywhere in the Peace River region.
- This position covers Rycroft, Fairview, McLennan, and Manning Areas.
Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.
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