Agronomy Innovation Manager

Job Description

<p><strong>JOB TITLE: AGRONOMY INNOVATION MANAGER</strong></p><p><span>LOCATION: WHITE CITY, SASKATCHEWAN</span></p><p><span>COMPANY: CROP INTELLIGENCE</span></p><p><span>JOB TYPE: FULL TIME</span></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><span>At Crop Intelligence we are on a mission to deliver our customers timely insights to grow the most with the water available to their crops!</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>We're looking for a great person to join our team in the Agronomy Innovation Manager role to help us achieve this!</span></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>WHAT DOES THE ROLE LOOK LIKE? </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>You will be working with our team across Western Canada to:</strong></p><ul><li>Lead and action the development, research and communication of agronomic insights in the Crop Intelligence application </li><li>Engage our customer, agronomy partner and vendor community around those insights by sharing agronomic knowledge, training, and processes to execute.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p><ul><li>Lead and action our insight development pipeline focusing on the insights best suited to help our customers capture the potential of the water available to their crop. </li><li>Collect potential insights and strategies through collaboration with our customers, vendors, academic partners and general industry engagement. </li><li>Build out insights and new strategies to increase a customer's ability to capture their full yield potential, mitigate yield loss or maximize profitability as identified by current or novel sensor information.</li><li><span>Develop and execute trials to demonstrate and validate insights provided. </span></li><li>Work with our Hardware Team and Development Team to deliver the insights you have validated. </li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Build and action processes to assist our customers, vendors and partners in executing on the insights provided by our products.</li><li><span>Develop process to communicate and integrate insights and strategies on the ground to capture yield potential, mitigate yield loss or maximize profitability. </span></li><li>Document all steps, manage expectations, train customers/vendors/partners and create tools to follow up on the quality of insights delivered. </li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Train and support TBA's (Territory Business Agronomists), Vendors and Partners in agronomic knowledge and Crop Intelligences agronomic value. </li><li>Develop internal training for TBA's to ensure they can execute on the CI value with customers/vendors/partners.</li><li>Travel with TBA's to complete agronomic focused training for our customers/vendors/partners.</li><li>Support TBA's in local agronomic demonstrations specific to their geographies </li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Liaise with agronomic research partners in our geography.</li><li>Manage University, Polytechnic, and College research collaborator partnerships.</li><li>Manage Agronomic focused partnerships with Producer and Government groups </li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? </strong></p><p><span> </span></p><ul><li><span>You understand business is a team sport and are energized by working in a team environment, looking for wins for both sides in all of your interactions</span></li><li><span>You have a passion for agronomy, always looking for new insights by connecting the data generated from our hardware to solve real world problems</span></li><li><span>You want to continually develop your skills, having achieved your bachelor's degree, CCA and/or P.AG, and enjoy staying connected to new developments in the world of agronomy</span></li><li><span>You have a strong drive to build long term relationships and increase the experience for both our vendors and our customers</span></li><li><span>You are energized by speaking in front of groups and engaging the audience to participate</span></li><li><span>You have past experience for three or more years working as an Agronomist in a field or research capacity. </span></li><li><span>You have created a strong system to organize yourself to handle multiple priorities throughout the day.</span></li><li><span>You have a high drive to succeed inside a flexible schedule - this is not an 8-5 job - our business is seasonal and requires us to be flexible to meet our customers' needs. </span></li><li><span>You enjoy the road! Traveling to meet with customers, vendors and collaborators 30% of your time.</span></li><li><span>You are based 70% of your time at our White City office living within a 45 minute drive of the White City Saskatchewan area or willing to relocate to the area. </span></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? </strong></p><ul><li><span>A competitive compensation package</span></li><li><span>Health, vision & dental benefits</span></li><li><span>Pension matching</span></li><li><span>Company vehicle</span></li><li><span>Company laptop / iPad / iPhone</span></li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Apply today through LinkedIn or by sending your resume and why you would be a great fit for our team to info@cropintel.ca </p>