Techno commercial specialist

Direct business accountability

• Create demand: approx. 80% time is focused on generating pull (e.g. F2F to farmers, retailers’ distributors’)
• Support campaigns, launches and demos in the relevant provinces
• Proactively support the new product introduction process
• Provide first hand technical support to Farmers incl. Farmer field visits and advice of solutions
• Discuss and provide spray programs to Farmers, support in calibration of sprayers
• Supporting the preparation of demo fields and campaigns/field days for new products as well as commercial ones based on communicated Syngenta plan
• Supporting Syngenta team during visits of farms, dealers, growers
• Collecting and updating marketing info e.g. plantation areas, competitors updates, Syngenta position, NPIs, market trends, new segments,

Overarching accountabilities

• Align and share information and activities across CPD Team and Marketing Team of Iran
• Acts as an active member of monthly Sales and Operations Meeting (SOP)
• Ensures compliance with Business Area commercial policy, local legislation and competition law.

Defends and promotes the image of Syngenta and represents Syngenta in a professional and competent manner.

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Critical experience and knowledge

• 5 years sales/technical experience
• Strong technical expertise
• strong understanding of customer needs, structure and business drivers
• Bachelor Degree in Plant protection, Horticulture, Agronomy
• Agribusiness experience: knowledge of cropping practices and crop protection products
• Fluent in English

Critical leadership capabilities

• Communicates with impact
• Builds a culture of innovation
• Focuses on customers
• Manages for performance

Critical technical and professional capabilities

• Creates strong, distinctive brand & crop plans

• Develops/implements effective product communications
• Understands market dynamics and competitive environment
• Understands customer needs
• Understands channel structure and dynamics
• Anticipates changes in the market