Area Manager Central & North Scotland (Maternity cover)
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Job Summary
We have exciting opportunities for Area Managers to implement and sell impactful marketing campaigns by building strong business relationships with key stakeholders.
There is a home-based sales role covering the Central and Northern Scotland region. Your role will involve managing a portfolio of key farmers and agronomists collaborating closely with Customer Marketing and influencing the wider value chain to maximize Syngentas market share. You will actively pursue opportunities in your territory using your market knowledge and leveraging a deep understanding of customer needs to promote Crop Protection Seed and Biological Syngenta solutions.
You will bring your technical knowledge and commercial perspective to the table and be part of a collaborative team driving success.
Qualifications and required experience
- Degree qualified in relevant discipline (ie Agriculture or Horticulture) or equivalent knowledge gained though proven experience.
- BASIS and FACTS qualified (or capability/willingness to qualify).
- Experience of establishing and maintaining successful business relationships
- Strong knowledge of UK agriculture market.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- A strong network of contacts in the industry is an advantage.
- Technical profile of Syngenta & key competitor products is desirable.
- Ability to develop an Area Business Plan and the continuous utilisation of SalesForce CRM.
- IT-literate with experience using MS Office suite.
- Full UK driving license and flexibility to travel throughout your territory.
Additional Information :
This role a 1-year fixed term maternity cover.
Syngentas site at Cambridge is the location for the commercial operations of Syngentas Crop Protection Seeds Flowers and Lawn & Garden businesses in the UK and Ireland. Activities include sales marketing technical support customer support HR Finance and administration functions. The UK Crop Protection and Seeds business employs a commercial team based at Cambridge which includes a home-based field force along with a small team based in Waterford Ireland. It provides growers with a wide range of products to help protect their crops from pests weeds and diseases. Our innovative technologies products and services deliver efficient solutions to agricultural production problems.
What we offer
- Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme bonus scheme private medical & life insurance.
- Up to 31.5 days annual holiday.
- Company Car
- We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating environment.
Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: Work :
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Key Skills
- Business Development
- Company Policies
- Customer Service
- Financial Performance
- Revenue Growth
- Oversight
- Regional Sales
- Account Management
- Project Management
- Product Line
- Ensure Compliance
- Human Resources
- Procedures
- Sales Goals
- Direct Reports
About Company
To help feed 10 billion people while reducing emissions and improve biodiversity. This is our mission as the global agriculture technology leader. With 59,000 employees in more than 100 countries and hundreds of thousands of agricultural partners worldwide, we are committed to transfo ... View more
