Vacancy title:
Technical Sales Representative

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Sales & Retail]

Jobs at:
Syngenta

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, September 18 2025

Duty Station:
Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, September 12 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Role purpose

To sell and promote Syngenta Vegetables Seeds to all assigned existing customer portfolios and prospective accounts in Copperbelt and North Western.

Responsibilities

• 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 monthly
• 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 an agricultural related field
• Member of AIZ
• ZAQA certified qualifications

Critical experience

• 3 years plus sales experience in the agriculture industry.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Strong Communication, Interpersonal & Influencing Skills
• Concern for standards
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Critical leadership capabilities

• Strategic view

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: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

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