Remote Account Executive

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Farmer's Business Network, Inc.

๐Ÿ’ต $52k-$63k
๐Ÿ“Remote - United States

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Summary

Join Farmers Business Network (FBN) as a FBN Account Executive and play a key role in recruiting farmers and maintaining high grower satisfaction with FBN. As an inside sales professional, you will be responsible for achieving chemical sales goals, understanding growers' crop input needs, and providing a seamless transaction experience. You will work remotely from home with limited travel for trade shows and company meetings.

Requirements

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a heightened sensitivity to the issues farmers face
  • 2+ years experience selling products or services directly to farmers
  • Ability to adhere to the compliance of all legal and safety procedures
  • Knowledge of agriculture inputs required
  • Strong domain experience and background in farming, production agriculture, retail or input sales
  • Candidates must be comfortable with technology and ideally the latest precision Ag Systems
  • Background in Agronomy, including, but not limited to, the management and use of agronomic data

Responsibilities

  • Achieve chemical sales goals (gross profit, revenue, etc
  • Understand a growerโ€™s crop input needs throughout the season and forecast based on the chemical projected sales/product needs
  • Develop a territory business plan to achieve objectives
  • Promote the collection of data from the farmer to build a successful crop protection plan customized to the farmerโ€™s needs
  • Use Salesforce to manage, prioritize, and document all interactions and sales processes with farmers
  • Organize and manage sales events within the territory
  • Document and report suggestions farmers for process improvement
  • Represent FBN at various farm industry trade shows/events
  • Educate Farmers how to construct orders through FBNโ€™s online platform

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree
  • 5+ years sales experience in agriculture managing and exceeding monthly and annual quotas selling directly to farmers
  • Multi-generational farm, farm hand or farm related background
  • Experience with Salesforce is nice to have but not required

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation packages that include equity compensation (dependent upon job level)
  • Paid holidays plus an additional floating holiday
  • Work flexibility including paid time off and remote work if your role is eligible
  • Parental leave
  • Benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, short & long term disability, life insurance, 401k, HSA employer contributions, and more

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