About The Company
The Lindsay Australia Group proudly operates an extensive Rural and National Transport and Logistics business across various locations connecting growers, regional communities and businesses with cities and sellers of fresh food across Australia.
As part of the group Lindsay Rural supplies farmers with an extensive range of agricultural products including packaging, fertilisers, chemicals, and irrigation equipment. The integrated end-to-end rural solutions package also provides customers with the benefits of utilising Lindsay Transport’s refrigerated fleet to deliver rural supplies to farms and transporting fresh produce direct to major east coast markets.
The Role
Our Mareeba rural store has an opening for a Sales Agronomist.
The role of Sales Agronomist is responsible for promoting and recommending products and services by providing on farm agronomic advice in relations to horticulture vegetable and irrigated cropping for our key accounts.
We are very keen to chat with applicants from all levels of experience.
Your Main Responsibilities Will Include But Not Limited To
* Proactively market the company, products, and services by calling on targeted customers to discuss their requirements, assist in planning customer farm inputs and maximise sales opportunities.
* Actively develop and maintain strong working relationships with current and future customers, vendor companies and their representatives.
* Provide analytical services including soil and plant sample tests, and crop checking.
* Keep current on agronomic products, trends and service.
* Relay competitive sales, pricing and marketing information to management.
* Organise and attend grower meetings, field days, farm walks, displays and exhibitions.
About You:
To succeed in this role, we anticipate you will be able to demonstrate:
* Tertiary qualifications in agriculture or a related discipline.
* Agsafe Accreditation (highly desirable).
* A highly motivated, enthusiastic and positive attitude.
* Exceptional customer service & interpersonal skills.
* Professional presentation with a friendly and helpful manner.
* High level reasoning, problem solving and planning skills.
* Ability to manage your own time, meet deadlines and take responsibility for your output and the quality of your work.
Lindsay Australia operates with a culture of honesty and openness.
If you’re successful in joining us, you’ll be joining a team where creativity, diversity and innovation are encouraged. We pride ourselves on our values and it doesn’t matter what we are doing we strive every day to work the “Lindsay Way” -
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Lindsay Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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