Area Manager - Agrochemicals - Herefordshire/Worcestershire

Rare opportunity to join a leading global agrochemical manufacturer.

This could be your chance to join a leading global manufacturer with an excellent reputation and a proven range of high quality crop protection products. This is essentially a technical sales and advisory role; and will involve liaison with farmers, growers, processors, packers, agricultural merchants, agronomists and distributors across the Herefordshire and Worcestershire region. The Area Manager will need to maintain existing strong business relationships and build new ones. They will also provide technical advice, give product presentations, and support the selling of a top quality range of agrochemical products - with further new products coming through in the near future. The Area Manager will ensure that sales targets are met, and endeavour to increase the company's market share, and will also assist in regional business strategy development and planning for the future.

Candidates are likely to have previous Sales, Marketing, or Commercial experience in the Agricultural and Arable Sector - or may have worked in Field Trials, Agrochemical Research, Farm Management, Agronomy, Potato Fieldsman, Farm Consultancy, Estate Management or similar and now be ready to progress into a varied and challenging role.

The role is home based but will require travel around the region and occasionally further afield.

Requirements:-

• Relevant qualification (HND/degree) in Agriculture, Agronomy, or similar - preferred but may not be essential.

• Sound technical knowledge of and passion for UK Agriculture and crop growing.

• Up to date knowledge of cereal crops and arable husbandry essential.

• BASIS qualified (or have the ability to gain the BASIS qualification within 3 months)

• Previous experience of building relationships with or selling agricultural products to farmers and growers.

• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal .

• Confident, credible, self-starter.

• Able to work autonomously.

• Full UK driving licence

Ongoing training will be encouraged and supported and there will be many career development opportunities within this successful business.

Location - this role is home-based in Herefordshire or Worcestershire or in the close surrounding area.

Salary - Excellent salary package + company car + significant incentivised bonus + generous benefits.

Please call Margaret Wilkinson on 01885 485526 / 07875 197231 to discuss this role confidentially or email your CV through to margaretwilkinson@delacyexecutive.co.uk

Please be assured that all contact is treated in complete confidence. It is important that you know De Lacy Executive regard your details and your CV as your property and so we will not dispatch anything about you in any format to any other person without your prior agreement.

Thank you.

www.delacyexecutive.co.uk

De Lacy Executive is the niche recruitment consultancy specialising in the Agricultural and Rural Business Sectors and established for over 13 years. We are experienced practical and supply trade agriculturalists who have developed an agricultural recruitment practice based on high ethical standards - we are approved members of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which oversees the UK's recruitment industry (REC Membership Number: 00082047).