Agronomy Acct Manager

An Agronomy Account Manager is in charge of selling seed, crop protection products, crop nutrients, precision ag products and services in a well-established cooperative setting. Providing great customer service, having a professional work ethic, and building good working relationships with the growers will be key in this role.

What You'll Do:

• Make sales calls throughout assigned territory to determine agronomy needs, create solutions and build long term relationships with customers that will generate sales of seed, nutrients, crop protection products, and agronomy services to meet specified goals.
• Work with Regional Sales Manager to develop and maintain a current list of customers and prospects and rate them based on customer segmentation guidelines.
• Engages in proper sales behaviors such as; on farm calls, follow up meetings, prospect calls, creating professional proposals, and getting referrals.
• Create a territory plan for assigned area.
• Utilize current marketing programs, products, services, and resources to sell agronomy products in an ethical manor.
• Follows an effective sales system.
• Ensure that all required paperwork is complete, accurate, and submitted on time.
• Supplies management with oral and written reports on market intelligence, customer needs, problems, interests, competitive activities, and potential for new products and services.
• Coordinate sales effort with marketing, sales management, accounting, logistics, technical service, and operations groups.

Note: This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. The employee may be required to perform other related duties as needed to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3 to 5 years retail agronomy sales experience preferred.
• Competent in MS Office and Microsoft Outlook.
• CCA (Certified Crop Advisor) preferred.
• Valid driver’s license required.

Working Conditions:

May be exposed to dust, noise, heat, cold, ag chemicals and vapors, and moving machinery on occasion as part of this position. May be required to work long hours in season, as well as work outdoors in all types of weather conditions.

River Valley Cooperative is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, genetic information, national origin, disability and other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits: For information about our benefits package, please visit our website at https://www.rivervalleycoop.com/careers.