Sales Agronomist

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.

About the role:
 
We currently have an opportunity to join the rural team as a Sales Agronomist working out of the Robinvale and Mildura stores.

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. 
 
The primary duties of the role will include:

• Make sales calls throughout assigned territories to determine agronomy needs, create solutions and build long term relationships with customers that will generate sales of seed, fertilizer, ag chemicals and agronomy services
• Provide analytical services including soil and plant sample tests, and crop checking
• Develop and maintain a current list of customers and prospects
• Keep current on agronomic products, trends and services
• Sell agronomy products in an ethical manner
• Relay competitive sales, pricing and marketing information to management

About you:
 
To be successful for this role applicants will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in agriculture or a related discipline (desirable)
• Some post graduate experience (desirable)
• Self motivator
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• The ability to work unsupervised
• The ability to work in a team environment
• A current driver's licence or willing to obtain

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”- http://lindsayaustralia.com.au/about-lindsay/the-lindsay-way.
 
Other benefits include:

• Competitive salary package
• Safety focused
• Company car 
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
• Excellent growth and development opportunities

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.