Director, Business Development

Director, Business Development - Precision Planting

Do you want to help solve the world's most pressing challenges? Feeding the world's growing population and slowing climate change are two of the world's greatest challenges. AGCO is a part of the solution! Join us to make your contribution.

Precision Planting is an innovative company that is changing the agriculture industry in remarkable ways. In only twenty years, we have helped redefine agriculture in the US and globally. Our products make growers more productive, increase yields, and current agricultural practices more sustainable, and reduce the costs to feed a growing world. Precision Planting is growing rapidly and has many new products and business opportunities it is pursuing to continue that growth. We are entrepreneurial in our DNA, fast-paced in our actions, and value hard work, innovative thinking, open communications, and teamwork. If you share these values, then we might be the right place for you to contribute, grow and succeed in your career. In this role, you will be leading the Precision Planting Brazilian business towards our LRP goal. You will be responsible all functions within the business cycle and employees development.

 

Your Impact

P&L ownership - Responsible for the P&L of PrP business in Brazil Develop a highly proactive, competent, & engaged distribution channel for our retrofit strategy. Lead the Sales team in helping the dealers see the value that our products bring to the farmer and help get the dealers excited about proactively going to scout the farmer’s fields and Identify & develop new strategic business partners to accelerate our go-to market strategy.

Customer Experience ownership - Manage the Product Support team to ensure that the dealers have all of the tools, training, & resources that they need to ensure the customer has a great experience with our products

Brazil-specific Innovation - Responsible for the development of new innovate product offerings specific for Brazil, Work with the engineering & agronomy teams to shine the flashlight to identify yield-robbing issues that need to be addressed, Work with the Tremont engineering team in managing the product road-map.

OEM expansion - Increase the scope of products that our OEM partners are adopting onto their planters, Ensure that the OEM leadership teams have a full understanding of the typical yield-robbing issues that are being created in the fields of their customers.

Your Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and industry experience
• Required languages: English (advanced or fluent)
• Broad business knowledge and people leadership skills to coach and sustain a high-performing team
• Hability to balancing internal and external relationship management, collaborating closely with internal AGCO leadership and external OEM and retrofit dealer partners. Continuing to grow our retrofit and OEM channel effectively and ensuring we're sustaining performance metrics with a particular focus on serving farmers first.

• Vehicle (Designated vehicle for executive use, according to models and rules in current policy) and Fuel Benefit

• Health and Dental Care Plan
• Meal Voucher OR canteen food services
• Food Allowance 
• Life Insurance
• Professional development through training and comprehensive learning opportunities within the organization
• Internal Parking

Your Workplace

We value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.

Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!

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