Regional Development Manager

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Nufarm is a global crop protection and seeds technologies company that helps farmers and businesses meet the global challenges of food, feed, fibre and food production.
Whether it's commercialising the world's first plant-based omega-3, launching precision agricultural solutions, unlocking biomass oils for more sustainable fuels and fast-moving consumer goods, launching innovative new crop protection solutions or delivering the crop and seed solutions farmers depend on every day, Nufarm is evolving with agriculture to drive value for customers.
Your Future, Fuelled by Innovation We're on the lookout for an experienced and proactive Market Development Manager with an Agronomy/Agricultural Science background to join our Commercial team.
In this role, you'll be seen as technical thought leader within the Southern NSW/ Victoria/ South Australian region with flexibility to work from our Horsham facility or from home within the region, and work closely with sales, marketing and R&D to develop and execute the product strategy.
You will demonstrate the features, advantages, and benefits (added value) of Nufarm's seed portfolio compared both to market standards and that of competitors in their region.
In this role, you will be responsible for cultivating external network stakeholder relationships including growers, influential channel partners, agronomists/consultants, grower groups and other industry stakeholders to create demand for our core products.
This role will manage the Southern NSW/ Victoria/ South Australia segment (working from Horsham or a location within territory is flexible) and requires regular travel.
A tool of trade vehicle will be provided.
Employee Share Plan (Shares in Nufarm) Health Benefits
Our people are the foundation of our success and to enable them to be their best we offer an inclusive environment and a range of flexible working options Great Team and ability to work within global innovation Seed Technology in Australia
How You'll Help Us Grow Manage all field promotional activities, including site selection, in-crop management, and assessments as well as various data collations.
Ensuring high quality trial presentations during field days/tours and reliable quality data outputs that are suitable for public disclosure Collaborate with 3rd party organisations to gain expertise on genetic/nutritional crop management backed by science Lead and coordinate Pre-launch through to Launch Activities & drive relationship building Communicate, engage, liaise and drive interest with key leaders in the grower community Complete the reporting of trial results and communicate to relevant stakeholders within Nufarm Focus on the development of seed and trait agronomic knowledge and experience within the Nufarm team, Area Sales Managers (ASM's) and R&D teams.
Attending and present at grower days and fields days.
Support ASM's in field as required.
Provide input to technical training to Nufarm staff, distribution key influencers, consultants and growers as required in conjunction with Sales and Development to ensure sufficient knowledge exists of Nufarm seed varieties Assist marketing in generating content specific to local regional requirements.
Build knowledge on the rotational benefit of canola and drive the expansion into more marginal cropping areas.
Partner with cropping groups and local influencers to drive adoption of canola.
Provide input into regional and territory strategic and tactical planning through the Advancement Committee and Australian Crop Team.
Could This Be You?
You're an enthusiastic technical Agriculturalist with a broad knowledge of Agronomy, commercial agricultural input sales and the Agricultural industry, ideally within a Broadacre (winter) crop focus including Canola but we are open to conversations if you are wanting to enter across from an alternative background.
You are energetic, engaging, customer focused, and results driven.
You have excellent communication and time management skills with the flair of influencing through design and reporting and most of all, you're passionate about developing relationships with internal teams, customers, end-user growers and consultant agronomists as well as developing your own skills.
If you want to be a part of a thriving, supportive environment and are inspired by the prospect of being a part of something bigger, we'd love to hear from you.
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