Sales representative

Ascenza is the crop Protection branch, a benchmark independent player in the off-patented South-European, Brazilian and Mexican markets, with a leading position in Iberia.

We are currently looking for a Sales Representative for the Paris area on a permanent basis.

You will report directly to the Sales Director for the North region. Your responsibilities will be:

• Launching and developing natural bioprotection offers 
• Leading the customer sales force to develop our sales
• Monitoring customer needs by meeting with decision makers
• Follow the agricultural sectors, chambers of agriculture, prescription and official services for the good referencing of our products
• Implementing promotional actions for the range
• Negotiate quantities and prices with cooperatives and traders as well as with regional agricultural distribution purchasing groups
• Provide technical and marketing support to the technical departments and sales forces of our clients in order to ensure the proper marketing of our products
• Produce a half-yearly business plan for the region to which you are assigned
• Define the budget required to implement the action plan

Your profile:

• A minimum of 2 to 5 years of higher education with an agricultural orientation (such as BTSA Plant Technologies, Agricultural /Agronomy Engineer with a Plant Production or Crop Protection option),

• At least 5 years of technical and commercial experience with a supplier of bioprotection or phytosanitary products 

• Excellent knowledge of the agricultural world and agricultural distribution

• Curious, creative, dynamic, rigorous, you have a commercial sensitivity and a taste for human contact and challenges.

• Your adaptability, your relational flexibility, your ability to listen and your capacity to argue and convince will enable you to succeed in this position.

• Good command of animation and communication techniques

• Strong proposal skills, autonomy and organisational skills

• You will enjoy working in a team of a human scale, within an international group, and we offer you the opportunity to join a team driven by ambitious projects.