Monsanto

Technology Development Representative

Serbia

Product development through field research programs, sales & marketing support, data & information management, trainings, registration and stewardship for Monsanto’s seeds and  traits organisation in Serbia.

• Provide technical leadership for local sales organization through technical trainings, product and technology knowledge transfer and stewardship initiatives
• In charge of sales support for sales representatives and promoters including training on our portfolio and on our future products.
• In charge of internal and external technical training.
• Develop and demonstrate features, advantages and benefits for all products, technologies and systems. In charge of local adaptation of our portfolio.
• Establish and develop relationships with key third party influencers (academic, regulatory, public officials) to transfer knowledge and facilitate acceptance or approvals for Monsanto products and technologies.
• In charge of direct technical support of the local distributors and Points of Sales of the country.
• Planning & Executing seeds and traits experimentation from sowing to harvest:
  • For product advancement, positioning and characterization purposes including part B trials for traits registration.
  • For agronomics purposes including agronomics systems
• In charge of working on data & information management (ARM, MIRAGE, ADM, EXCEL, TEAMSITES and also communication to corresponding GAM and other relevant Teams
• In charge of safety processes and Standard Operating Procedures putting in place.

Required Education:

• University degree in agronomy and/or plant breeding
• Fluent in Serbian and good English command

Required Work Experience:

• Advantages are experience in similar position or as sales representative
  agchem or/and seeds and sales support and/or experimentation and/or worked as agronomist, sales and/or marketing experiences.
• Needs talent in influencing others, presentation skills.

Technical skills:

• Experience in seed varieties and/or agchem field testing
• Experience in product evaluation and positioning in relation with Company financial interests’, Customers’ needs, market reality, sales capacity, product management
• Good agronomical knowledge
• Strong analytical skills

Personal skills:

• Communication, data & information management and interpretation, adaptability, team work, relationships building, leadership, high level stress tolerance, flexibility

If you are interested in this opportunity please apply by clicking the following link:

https://monsanto.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=00850

Deadline for applications: 15.09.2012.