Syngenta Group is one of the world’s biggest agricultural technology companies, with roots going back more than 250 years. With more than 59,000 employees, operating in more than 100 countries, the company strives to transform food production through Regenerative Agriculture - a science-driven, technology-enabled approach to improve soil, deliver high productivity and high-quality food, help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity. Syngenta Group, which is registered in Shanghai, China, and has its management headquarters in Switzerland, draws strength from its four business units: Syngenta Crop Protection, headquartered in Switzerland; Syngenta Seeds, headquartered in the United States; ADAMA, headquartered in Israel; and Syngenta Group China. Together, these businesses provide industry-leading ways to serve customers around the world.

Position Summary

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. We are proud to be a Great Place to Work certified organisation in Türkiye - a recognition that reflects the culture we have built together. To support this mission, Syngenta’s Seed Operations Team is seeking a Technical Sales Representative in the Antalya Vegetable R&D site in Turkey. This role will accelerate product introduction, promotion and demand creation for new and existing VEG SE varieties to boost the sales. The successful candidate will be responsible for organising demo trials for customers, promoting the varieties and supporting the Marketing, Sales & territory teams by providing them with sufficient technical information on the product behavior and performance to help them in the product positioning and sales.

Accountabilities

• Generating customer demand for specific vegetable seeds relevant to the assigned geography of responsibility to support VEG BU targets
• Ensuring demo field trials are executed and visited by customers in alignment with campaign plans
• Overseeing the performance of PLC 6.1 trials with Trialing officers and the TER PS on regular visits
• Supporting NPI launches, executing the campaigns by delivering the key messages and promo materials to the customers
• Being the technical reference for the assigned VEG crops providing technical support on varieties to customers and BU sales & marketing team (trial visits, presentation, technical document)
• Collecting market insights and information on varieties performance and sharing them with Sales & Marketing BU and EECA territory PS
• Handling the technical issues of customers complaints
• Generating Sales to a designated customer group, negotiating volumes, price and credit with them
• Tracking, monitoring and following up on seeds deliveries and customers payment
• Providing training and development to the channel partners and stakeholders
• Providing feedback from Demo trials to the R&D, SEE product managers
• Identifying customer needs and resources to ensure successful outcome
• Supplying forecast information (1-3 Year) to SAM & BU heads

• Bachelor’s degree in agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in agronomic sales in the vegetable and vegetable seeds business
• Experience in marketing and sales (advantageous)
• Strong sales and influencing skills
• Strong knowledge of the Vegetables Seeds market and customer needs
• Good understanding of customer needs, market & competitive environment dynamics and product behavior and performance
• Very good communication and presentation skills with Native Turkish and basic (A2 -B1) English  

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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