Crop Scientist (Expat)

SUMMARY:
Our client who is in the agriculture sector is seeking a skilled crop scientist to service commercia

POSITION INFO:

Our client who is in the agriculture sector is seeking a skilled crop scientist to service commercial agricultural producers in the Southern region of Zambia.

Responsibilities:

• Agronomic expertise and technical support.

• Digital farming solutions.

• Market intelligence.

• Plant nutrition product portfolio development, sale, implementation and monitoring.

• Sales planning and forecasting, ordering and logistics.

• Credit application, debtor management and account query solutions.

• Stakeholder and relationship management, applicable to the commercial farming sector.

Skills:

• Strong inter-personal communication,

• Negotiation skills,

• Ability to define problems; collect information; make sound judgements and involve relevant experts,

• Exercising sales collaboration with internal and external stakeholders,

• Ability to work independently within a diverse and geographically dispersed teams.

Qualifications:

• BsC. Agric degree or associated qualification.

• Additional agricultural work-related certificates will be advantageous.

• Proven track record of similar work experience in agronomic support and plant nutrition sales to commercial agricultural producers.

• Minimum 3-4 years experience in an agronomy and sales role.

• MS Office experience.

• Agronomy expertise and knowledge.

• Fluent in english, written and verbal.