Private Brand Sales Agronomist

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Private Brand Sales Agronomist at Federated Co-operatives Limited, enhancing sales performance across Western Canada by leveraging agronomic expertise and collaboration.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead Co-op Agro private brand (PB) sales enablement by delivering targeted training and coaching to agronomy and sales teams, strengthening product confidence and commercial positioning.
  • Equip local Co-ops with tools, market insights, and strategies to drive adoption, optimize margins, and enhance sales execution.
  • Support demand creation and in-field adoption through joint customer engagement, grower events, and collaboration with PB and agronomy teams.
  • Drive continuous improvement by translating market intelligence, sustainability alignment, and field feedback into stronger PB portfolio performance.
  • Lead successful PB product launches, ensuring clear agronomic positioning, strong commercial readiness, and confident adoption by Co-op teams.
  • Drive in-field performance excellence by managing Product Performance Inquiries, supporting issue resolution, and capturing structured post-launch insights to strengthen the PB portfolio.
  • Provide data-driven insights and actionable feedback to enhance PB execution, close competitive gaps, and strengthen overall portfolio performance.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner, contributing to forecasting, budgeting, and continuous improvement of PB growth and positioning.
  • There will be expected travel of approximately 35-40% annually.

Requirements:

  • Have 6+ years of agronomy, sales, or crop input or ag retail experience; preference will be given for field sales or technical service.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Ag; or a combination of experience and education.
  • Experience working with crop protection, seed, biologicals, and fertilizer technologies is considered an asset.
  • PAg or AT is required; Certified Crop Advisor designation preferred.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salaries, short-term incentives, a comprehensive benefits package, and an employer-contributed pension plan.
  • Encouragement to take advantage of learning opportunities to grow and develop as a Team Member.