Sales Manager - Agri Inputs

Job Description

A leading group in the Agricultural Industry, focused on life, sustainability and science, is seeking to hire a Sales Manager.

Job Responsibilities

• Implementing an aggressive sale’s plan and ensuring sales quotas are met and exceeded while surpassing client service expectations (under direction of the department head)
• Understanding customers' diverse, specific business needs and applying product knowledge to meet those needs
• Ensuring quality of service to clients
• Identifying and developing new business through networking and courtesy and follow-up calls
• Cold-calling in order to create interest in products and services and generate new business leads and arrange meetings
• Organizing demo plots on farms
• Providing technical advice to customers on all aspects of the crop and specifics of our products, both before and after the sale
• Meeting sales targets set by management and contributing to team targets.
• Helping to set up product development plots for different needs of the company
• Recommending and Developing new areas of business to management

Other Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture (advantage to Master’s Degree /PhD).
• Minimum 6 years experience in the export farms Sales of Agri inputs, preferably in plant nutrition products
• A valid Driving Licence (a prerequisite).
• Flexible to travel and stay out (sometimes up to 5 days).
• Excellent understanding of plant nutrition.
• Good understanding of plant protection.
• 3 recommendations from key figures in the industry.