Job Summary:
The Agronomy Sales and Service Specialist’s responsibilities include sales, service, reporting, inventory, safety and maintenance, and other duties as assigned by management. This position is responsible for making sales calls to customers, making proper recommendations of agronomy products, and completing follow-up customer service calls.
Key Responsibilities:
Recommend and sell plant food and crop protection products, seed, digital farm solutions, and services in a manner that will optimize the customer’s profitability, and the cooperative’s market share and savings, improve the cooperative’s efficiency, help achieve the cooperative’s mission and goals, and result in outstanding customer service.
Qualifications:
Education & Experience
- High school diploma or equivalent
- fluent reading, writing, and speaking the English language.
Skills
- Speaking, Writing, Reading Comprehension, Listening, Monitoring, Judgment and Decision Making, Time Management.
- Ability to Obtain License, Certificate, or Registration - Class A CDL with combination, Certified Applicator License with A, B, C, and Seed Treatment.
Other Duties:
The Sales Agronomist will uphold cooperative policies, perform other duties as assigned by management, and will enforce and uphold the cooperative’s credit policy.
Uphold cooperative policies:
- Uphold all cooperative policies
Uphold cooperative credit policies:
- Make credit terms known to all employees and customers
- Do not charge to customers on COD
- Do not extend credit to customers who have not been approved by the credit manager
- Keep all personal accounts current
Perform other duties as assigned by management:
- Perform duties as requested by management
