Technical & Commercial Development – Agriculture Chemicals Location: Open (1739)
This is a highly unusual opportunity in terms of quick career advancement–a rare hybrid technical and commercial role. The primary responsibility of this person will be to discuss formulations with the agricultural products manufacturing customers, acting as the technical expert for this group, internally and externally. The second part of the job is to quickly gear up to take over commercial leadership of the entire business by identifying resource priorities to help scale up the business, evaluating immediate deficiencies, identifying what kind of hiring needs to be done to support the business, setting a strategy, managing P&L, etc.
Requirements: Tech degree, + five plus years in the ag industry, with extensive knowledge and experience of agricultural product formulations as well as business/sales/commercial experience and acumen.
Location/Travel: Up to 50% across the US.
Why Open? Expansion due to increased business.
Why Consider this Job or Company?
- This is a really rare opportunity to take on a job as a technical service/salesperson, knowing that you will be quickly moved to take over the Ag Formulation group on the commercial side, setting the overarching strategy, identifying hiring needs, prioritizing resources, managing P&L, etc. This will morph into a very responsible challenging role very quickly. It’s very rare to have an opportunity where you immediately know that you’ll be given a much bigger role very quickly as long as you perform well.
- This role is critical for them, so this person will play a very important role in the growth of the business and be a key member of the leadership team.
- They are experiencing phenomenal growth of 20-30% per year.
- The people in these groups are warm, authentic and collaborative.
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