Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Profile
Yara Fertilizer Zambia Limited continues its search to fill the permanent position of a Crop Scientist to support the Commercial Farming Sector in the Northern region of Zambia. All candidates must complete the online application questions and meet the minimum requirements, particularly the requirement of previous agronomic support and sales experience to the Commercial Farming Sector, to be considered:
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.

About the Unit
We at Yara Fertilizer Zambia Limited are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world’s key challenges – resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change. As equal opportunities, diversity, equity and inclusion principles are extremely important to us, applications from Female candidates, including those with Disabilities, that meet the specified Commercial Farming Sector agronomic support and sales requirements, will be favorably considered.

Roles & Responsibilities
• To drive the sales and agronomic support of Yara premium and differentiated products to Commercial Farming Customers (Commercial 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 an agronomy and sales role for the Commercial Farming Sector, 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 13 December 2022
Should Yara not correspond with you directly before 31 December 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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