Sales Marketing Agribusiness and Livestock

• Sell a variety of commercial and agricultural equipment.
  
• Sell a service or goods such as animal feed garden equipment poultry chickens cows seeds pesticides herbicides fungicides and cattle.
  
• Work on building a book of business by calling potential customers or going to their business.
  
• Check to see if orders are in stock.
  
• Confer with the customer regarding installation setup or layout of agricultural equipment and machines.
  
• Be familiar with a type of equipment and how it operates or have knowledge in such areas as fertilizers and how they affect crops.
  
• Negotiate prices.
  
• Demonstrate how to use equipment and why the company needs the equipment or service.
  
• Recommend a different and more efficient product machine or service.
  
• Prepare reports.
  
• Conduct business transactions.
  
• Inform customers of estimated delivery schedule service contracts warranty or other information about purchased products.
  
• Attend conferences to discover new products or machines.
  
• Perform extensive research and keep up to date with competitors
  
• Keep abreast of market trends needs and new companies cropping up.
  
• Prepare contracts and ensure they are legally binding.
  

Requirements

• Diploma/Degree in a related line of work
  
• Must have horticulture/livestock knowledge and retail experience.
  
• Knowledge in horticulture/livestock farming with the ability to communicate the knowledge clearly to customers.
  
• Good communication both written and verbal.
  
• Great customer service skills organization and ability to follow directions.
  
• Personable outgoing individual willing to learn; enthusiastic selfmotivated individual.