Sales Specialist Vegetable Seeds

For our entity in Casablanca - Morocco, we are looking for a Sales Specialist to join our Vegetable Seeds  team.

The position will be based in Agadir.

What you can expect:

Core Responsibilities / Tasks

This position is directly reporting to the country Sales Manager Maghreb and west Africa.

Functional / Operational tasks:

•    Accountable for the sales achievement of his crops in Morocco directly or indirectly through daily contact with distributors, dealers, nurseries, and growers.
•    Develop and monitor customer key accounts. 
•    Visiting customers and potential customers to evaluate needs and convert into sales opportunities.
•    Main aim is achieving APV market leadership, by maximizing sales volumes in all growing areas of his crops.
•    Be a member of different crop teams in EMEA and actively participate and help in achieving EMEA sales targets
•    Collecting data on consumers, competitors and market place and consolidating information into actionable items, reports and presentations.
•    Contribute to APV market leadership strategy, implementing and follow up of action plans targeting customers to enhance APV market share and boosting loyalty.
•    Day to day (experimental and sales) activities & Build up a robust sales network and customer data base to APV that secure the strategic growth objectives.
•    The support of sales in Morocco through his capabilities to promote APV varieties directly or through distributor’s teams and retailers.
•    Customer relationship and coordinate the implementation and follow up of the local marketing activities through building, maintaining, and enhancing strong relationship with all stakeholders in the seeds value chain.
•    Involve in Customer teams coaching and technical trainings
•    Conducting different levels of trialing in main growing and potential areas.
•    Concluding the experimental results at customer level and convert it to sales that will positively impact on our market share through.

•    The support of sales in Morocco through his capabilities to promote APV varieties directly or through distributor’s teams and retailers.

•    Customer relationship and coordinate the implementation and follow up of the local marketing activities through building, maintaining, and enhancing strong relationship with all stakeholders in the seeds value chain.
•    Involve in Customer teams coaching and technical trainings
•    Conducting different levels of trialing in main growing and potential areas.
•    Concluding the experimental results at customer level and convert it to sales that will positively impact on our market share through.

What we expect:

Education: 

•    Agricultural engineering 

Working Experience: 

•    Breadth/depth of experience required (minimum 5years’ experience)
•    Experience working with similar systems in a similar business environment (especially Tomato & Pepper)

Industry and/or Country specific requirements:

•    Agadir / Morocco
•    Seed industry (Tomato & Pepper )

Technical & Professional Knowledge:  

•    Knowledge of vegetable seeds market 
•    Ability to communicate and influence
•    Team worker •    Able to work in a matrix organization 

IT skills:

•    Microsoft skills 

Language skills (level):

•    Arabic : fluent
•    French: fluent
•    English, Business fluency