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Cedar Rapids, IA, US

Laverton North, VIC, AU

Responsible for managing and growing sales with key accounts while delivering profitable growth. Develop deep and impactful relationships with members and top management. Create annual strategic plan. Collaborate with internal functions within the organization including legal, supply chain, regional sales, finance and marketing.

Laverton North, VIC, AU

Responsible for implemening annual sales strategy for Central US corn and soybean markets for product portfolio while driving high value brands with key wholesale accounts for crop protection and seed treatment brands. Area responsibility for Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri

Management consulting with an emphasis on commercial strategy, product commercialization for agricultural crop protection markets

Trapview is a pest insect monitoring and forecasting platform developed by a Slovenian company Efos. Automated electronic traps enable efficient, nearly maintenance free monitoring of pest insects. Advanced artificial intelligence based processing of trap data assists customers to get accurate and real-time understanding of pest population dynamics as well.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Lead US Agricultural Sales teams in Crop Protection, BioSolutions, Seed Treatment, Aquatics, Fumigants, and Specialty Products MarketsUPL is a global leader in post patent crop protection products working partnering with distribution, driven by retailers and connected to growers.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

With the acquisition of Arysta LifeScience, two legacy companies with different sales approach to the channel, design strategies, tactics and programs that optimize UPL's selling capability and ability to execute effectively against customer segmentation strategyDevelop, in conjunction with sales and marketing, tools for playbook for sales by customer.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Responsible for managing and growing sales with defined key accounts while delivering profitable growth for both the customer and Arysta. Develops deep and impactful customer relationships, at various levels and across different functions within their company. Develops strategic plan for the key accounts and manages the sales process. Manages interface.

Davis, CA, US

Leading Marrone's US sales organization to align the leading Biological-based brands with key channel partners. Also building partnerships for international business. Work closely the leadership team on corporate strategy, annual and long term business planning.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Supporting ADAMA USA corporate efforts to grow the business by optimizing third party and industry-wide relations while building our brand with stakeholders focused on expanding our company alliances, leading industry relations, contract alignments, improving market insight and building key corporate market assumptions.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Expand the companies' go to market business modelChampioning a culture of innovativeImproving the quality of evolving portfolioAlignment toward common customer goalsEngineering better product design and deliveryBuilding swift and effective processesInspiring product solutions to key customers

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Manage Northern US Regional business for MANA Ag Company. P&L Responsible for account management with Regional and National distributors (Crop Production Services, Winfield Solutions, United Suppliers and Rosen's, Inc) for sale planning, private label and technical offers. Oversee seven Area Business Managers from Maine to Montana building annual business.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Responsible for the profitability of twelve active ingredients in North America. Develop go-to-market strategies to launch post-patent agricultural insecticide and miticides while maintaining sales of older or proprietary chemistries. Serve as the companies' market research manager collecting market intelligence for the organization.

Ludwigshafen, DE

Managing a $500 million U.S. crop protection business portfolio comprised of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. Leading a staff of seven Market Managers to develop mid-term row crop marketing programs, long-range strategic plans, and participate or lead multiple project initiatives with key company stakeholders.

Ludwigshafen, DE

Managed global active ingredient crop uses; Fipronil, Flufenoxuron, and Teflubenzuron. Relocated to Lyon, France for a 14-month project assignment. Responsible for Fipronil knowledge transfer among regional businesses, development of long range strategic insecticide planning documents, and championing innovative product concepts. Liaison between Merial and.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Managed the U.S. Fipronil Hold Separate Business during the divestment from Bayer CropScience. Primarily responsibility was to oversee 200 Hold Separate Support Employees to insure compliance with requirements, confidentiality and standards from the Federal Trade Commission's Hold Separate Order. Developed short to long-term business plan strategies to.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Worked as the Regent® 4SC corn insecticide and ICON® seed treatment product manager, with annual revenue exceeding $35M. Primarily responsible for working with sales management for; annual sales forecasting, creation of marketing programs, managing profit and loss statements, U.S. market segmentation, and advertising strategies. Served as the team lead for.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Improved Human Resources recruitment policies by upgrading external corporate communications, oversaw employee new-hire orientations, and upgraded on-site staffing services. Provided a process to guide the organization in assessing, identifying, prioritizing, and meeting employee development needs. Contracted Carew International to develop strategic sales.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Served as the primary point of contact for a $96M national sales and marketing programs. Built product-specific programs for customer unique strategies to increase company market share. Managed an AGDATA IML contract and an internal staff of full-time and contract employees for product fulfillment.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Developed and supervised a 6-month entry-level core sales training curriculum for recent college graduates. Recruited 32 employees who now provide the company with accumulative sales over $20M. Managed an annual $1.3M departmental budget. Piloted a full-season internship program that provided sales support and increased corporate exposure for college.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Managed a twelve county, $1.1 M territory in Central Nebraska for 2 years. Transferred to a five county, $1.3M territory in Central Iowa for 2 ½ years. Disseminated local market information weekly, built product forecast models monthly, fielded customer service concerns, and maintained within annual expense budget. Created two local product launch.