Business Development Officer job at Syngenta
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Vacancy title:
Business Development Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Management ]

Jobs at:

Syngenta

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, February 20 2024 

Duty Station:
Within Zambia , Lusaka, South - Central Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, February 08 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Job Description
Role purpose
• To sell and promote Syngenta Vegetables Seeds to all assigned existing customer portfolios and prospective accounts in Zambia.

Accountabilities
• Support Technical Sales Representatives with customer and technical support
• Identification and creation of new customers in the assigned area.
• Tender application.
• Coordinate and support with marketing across the country.
• To sell and promote Syngenta Vegs Seeds to all assigned existing customer portfolios and prospective accounts like Young Plant Raisers.
• Directly manage identified key Agro distributors, take orders and coordinate deliveries and payments.
• Create demand by running demo trials and participate on field days/expositions, execute campaign plans agreed with Marketing Operation Lead.
• Share demand plan/forecast with Operations team on a monthly basis.
• Run a certain amount of screening trials in EZ capture to support future New Product Introductions and provide feedback to Product Development Specialists.
• Support the promoters and merchandisers in their daily activities.
• Provide sales training to Agro dealers, Stockists and Agents.
• Ensure all customers are handled and serviced within accepted Syngenta policy and standards with the use of Salesforce.com
• Provide timely monthly sales report to Africa South Vegs Operations manager and join monthly S&OP meetings

Qualifications
Knowledge, experience & capabilities
Critical knowledge
• BSC Degree in Agriculture, A master’s in business/ marketing/ agriculture will be an added advantage
Critical experience
• 5 years plus experience in sales (experience in Agro industry will be an added bonus)
Critical technical, professional, and personal capabilities
• Strong Communication, Interpersonal & Influencing Skills
• Concern for standards
• Fluency in written and spoken Portuguese and English
• Strong technical and sales experience
• Forecasting and planning

Critical leadership capabilities
• Strategic view
Additional Information
Critical success factors & key challenges
• Build understanding of Vegetable Sales objectives, focus and priorities within the organization ensuring in time and qualitative delivery of strategy
• Manage priorities
• Working in matrix organization
• Build strong relationship with farmers and Territory teams
• Gain stakeholder support
• Facilitate the transition, anticipate blockage and profit from opportunities

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• Interested and qualified? Click here to apply

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Job Info
Job Category: Marketing jobs in Zambia
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Tuesday, February 20 2024
Duty Station: Lusaka
Posted: 08-02-2024
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 08-02-2024
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 08-02-2066
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