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Stine Seed Company, a privately held, national seed company, currently has an opening for a Retail Account Manager covering Ohio. The Retail Account Manager will be a full-time brand ambassador for Stine Seed Company and represents an excellent opportunity to grow professionally and financially with one of the industry's most respected corn and soybean companies.
Job Responsibility:
Promote Stine Seed Company to help increase sales and brand awareness with retail dealer locations in the assigned territory
Provide dealers with updated product data, agronomics, and company promotional material
Develop and maintain a thorough agronomic and technical knowledge of Stine Seed and treatment products
Develop a list of key retail dealer prospects and recruitment plan
Communicate with the Director of Retail Development on the performance of the key retail accounts
Visit key retail locations and perform at least twenty on-site retail dealer visits per week
Ongoing new dealer prospecting throughout the year
Help develop annual goals for Stine corn and soybeans for each key retail location
Work with Director of Team Development to implement sales training for each key retail dealer
Help organize and participate in sales and agronomy/product training classes provided by Stine
Provide accurate reporting of account forecasts and sales
Help oversee the development of Stine Success corn and soybean plots for product training purposes
Collect side-by-side corn and soybean yield data from retail locations
Promote use of Stine XP soybean seed treatments at key retail accounts
Requirements:
Three or more years of ag retail and seed sales experience is preferred
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated knowledge of proven sales techniques, excellent negotiating skills and the ability to overcome obstacles
Demonstrate initiative and the ability to work with minimum supervision to meet established goals
Proven ability to build/maintain strong relationships with retailers by understanding their needs and values and achieving desired results