Agronomist at Bayer

Role Purpose:


The Agronomist is to provide comprehensive support to the Senior Agronomist and Customer Facing Squads (CFS) in the seed and crop protection ideations, ensuring the successful execution and localization of new technologies and products, as well as maintaining high standards of safety, stewardship, and data management.


Location: Bothaville
Key Responsibilities and Tasks:


Planting, maintaining, and ensuring good trial execution and data collection.
Support the development and validation of field protocols and data.
Accountable for the successful execution and localisation of new hybrid testing programme and trials under farmers' conditions to validate the
technologies and solutions.
Build and maintain strong relationships with farmers to support trial work and ensure effective execution under farmers' conditions.
Support the Senior Agronomist to strengthen CFS sales trial execution and data collection.
Support the Senior Agronomist in planting, maintaining, and executing farmers' day sites and competency centres.
Support with localised launch of new technologies and products.
Create customer pull by developing, positioning and/or testing new hybrids, CP programmes, traits and/or systems.
Accountable to develop and incorporate new products into agronomic systems and make recommendations on adjustments to cropping systems.
Supporting sales in seed and crop protection ideation.
Supporting the Customer Facing Squad (CFS) in achieving sales targets.
Supporting the pull at channel partner and grower level.
Supporting the development of a sales support strategy linked to the needs of the customer.
Support the Senior Agronomist with the compiling of relevant data to support individual client needs.
Assistance with product performance issues.
Assisting the Senior Agronomist in investigating product complaints, writing technical reports, and advising CFS on actions.
Act as technical lead and build profile as technical expert for new commercial offerings in Seed, Traits, Biologicals, and Crop Protection.
Responsible for building confidence and competence by training on our portfolio, products, and agronomic information.
Supporting knowledge transfer to all relevant parties, internal and external.
Supporting the Senior Agronomist with large-scale demonstrations in partnership with CFS to identify the value of programmes and ensure it is aligned to the Must Win Battles.
Build and maintain relationships with researchers from academic and research institutions.
Writing relevant articles and information brochures.
Drive the safety agenda.
Accountable for the implementation and training of stewardship and adherence to company policies, ensuring all conditions of buffers, isolation zones, seed logs, and harvest disposition are followed.
Accountable to maintain and implement QMS for CFTs and NTOs.
Collaboration with farmers and third parties to ensure all processes and SOPs are maintained in CFTs and NTOs.
Accountable for deregulation of new biotech.
Accountable for all pre-commercial data timely captured into digital platforms.
Accountable to drive digital transformation.
Accountable to bring innovation in Agronomic Excellence.
Forward-thinking to identify future threats, opposition, diseases, and climate.
Supporting the graduate programme with mentorship and training.
Basic FV support to farmers.
To stay true to VACC leadership principles.


Experience, Skills and Qualifications:


MSc degree in Ag/Life Sciences or related discipline or BSc Degree with experience in agricultural research.
Superior understanding of crop production which includes relevant crops for the region.
Good working knowledge of Crop Protection Industry and Seed Business
Excellent relationship and team skills
Understanding of implications of actions on the achievement of BCS short-term and long-term objectives.
Advanced written, verbal, and presentation skill set.
Excellent organization and time management
Proactive partner with sales to exceed business targets
Intermediate level of English speaking.
Strong digital acumen.