CP Sales Representative

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

The position is off-site (area: Somogy county).

We all have a critical role to play and add value. Here is how this role will help:

• Execute agreed sales plans achieving SIP targets set for the area and ensure the implementation of country GTM strategy.
• Collaborate with the local sales team (SE Sales Reps and Promoters). 
• Demand generation at grower level promoting Syngenta products on a strong technical basis.
• Use SFDC and other tools to fix grower demand closing the loop and ensuring the expected intensity and effectiveness in the field work.
• Account planning and forecast in SFDC taking responsibility for local sales plans and reliability of figures uploaded in the system.
• Technical sales follow up demonstrating deep product and technological (agronomy) knowledge developed continuously.
• Monitor and report all the market phenomenon influencing sales results with special respect to competitor activity.
• Develop partner basis managing grower data in SFDC.
• Handle customer complaints focusing on mutual interest of costumers and the company.
• Operative coordination of the work of promoters working in the area providing a healthy SE-CP balance during their daily work. Contribute to promoter target setting.
• Trial (demo and SBS) management providing quality data for technical development and marketing.
• Organize field events and winter presentations to promote our products.
• Work closely together with distributors in the area providing product availability and channel support.
• Contribute to marketing campaigns and participate crop teams upon request.

• BA/MSc degree in Agriculture
• Deep agricultural (technology) and product knowledge
• Market excellence with special respect to competitors and channel
• Sales technics and competency in demand generation
• Computer literate and excellence in usage of different digital support tools
• Advance level in MS Office 
• Previous sales experience in the market of Agri inputs
• Grower experience
• Working at suppliers with strong market and partner knowledge
• Teamwork: ability to work closely with the management and other functions
• Good communication (negotiation) and presentation skills

Our efforts to become a really good place to work:

• Dynamic and international environment
• Long-term opportunities
• A competitive pension fund plan

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.