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Vacancy title: Crop Scientist

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Professional Services , Category: Science & Engineering ]

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Yara International

Deadline of this Job:
16 September 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Zambia , Lusaka , South - Central Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
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Yara Fertilizer Zambia Limited Is Looking To Fill The Permanent Position Of a Commercial Crop Scientist For The Northern Region Of Zambia
Area of responsibility: Lusaka North, Chisamba, Kabwe, Mkushi, Serenje, Kasama.
Living location: flexible, but ideally based in Chisamba or Mkushi.
Supervision: Manager; Agronomy & Commercial Sales, Zambia Cluster.
Roles & Responsibilities
• To drive the commercial sales and agronomic support of Yara premium and differentiated products to customers (agricultural producers), in the assigned area, in a professional and long term sustainable manner which directly impacts the company overall performance:
• Agronomic expertise and technical support
• Plant nutrition product portfolio development, sale, implementation and monitoring
• Digital farming solutions
• Market Intelligence
• Sales planning and forecasting, ordering and logistics
• Credit application, debtor management and account query solutions
• Stakeholder and relationship management
• Company policy, values and contract adherence and promotion
• Functional Knowledge
• Sound understanding and practical experience/knowledge of crop production, plant nutrition and agronomic principles.
• Sound understanding and practical experience/knowledge of selling, marketing and negotiating in a commercial agriculture environment.
• Working knowledge of commercial customer service and external customer relations management.
• Working knowledge of commercial sales administration.

Competencies
• Technical: agronomy expertise and knowledge
• Business: acumen, organization and administration, critical evaluation, consultation and value selling.
• Business Expertise, Leadership, Problem Solving, Interpersonal Skills
• Exercising sales activities within the framework of Yara’s code of ethics and corporate governance.
• Ability to work independently within a diverse but geographically remote team.
• Sales collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to define problems, collect information, make sound judgments and involve relevant experts, decision makers and stakeholders to create sustainable solutions.
• Analysis, judgment and provision of solutions to the day to day challenges of commercial sales.
• Strong inter-personal, communication and negotiation skills to convince both within own organization and external customers.

Qualifications And Experience
• BSc. Agric Degree or associated qualification, preferably with additional agricultural work related certificates or similar work experience within Yara.
• Minimum 3/4 years’ experience in a commercial agronomy and sales role with experience in seasonal planning, forecasting and budgeting.
• Computer literacy in Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint or similar packages.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Apply no later than
• Should Yara not correspond with you directly before 16 September 2022, the company thanks you in advance for your submission but regrets that you will not be considered for the position.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Environment, Forestry and Agriculture jobs in Zambia
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 16 September 2022
Duty Station: Lusaka
Posted: 05-09-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 05-09-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 05-09-2066
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