Description:
- Great Place to Work Certified 2023 2024
- Provide consultative support on farm to local growers
- Humpty Doo, Darwin NT location
Why Nutrien Ag Solutions?
If you want a career that makes a difference, then come work with us at Nutrien where your purpose for coming to work every day is real and impactful - Going Further for Australian farmers.
We’re a local employer, with a local heartbeat, and global resources with safety, inclusion, integrity, and results at our core.
If you’ve never thought about the agriculture industry, it’s time to explore opportunities you’ve never dreamed of while making a real difference. So, come join us.
We are currently offering a great career opportunity for a driven Agronomist to join our team in Humpty Doo, Darwin.
About the opportunity :
Reporting to the Branch Manager, you will work closely with our key clients to provide superior agronomic advice and inputs with your focus on Horticultural agronomy and summer crop production. In addition, you will :
- Share information with producers related to environmental and seasonal conditions affecting production
- Perform soil testing and study other factors affecting production to provide sound fertiliser, nutrient, and soil recommendations to improve quality and yield.
- Work closely with clients to design improvement programs to increase yield and productivity.
- Conduct field demonstrations and trial work for product development in conjunction with key suppliers.
- Work with branch staff to drive promotions, merchandising and sales performance.
About you :
To be successful you will have established yourself as a trusted advisor in an agronomy role and demonstrate an understanding of the products, seasonal timings and general requirements of rural producers.
- You will have strong technical knowledge in agronomic practices and application ideally with a solid understanding of horticultural crop production and cotton agronomy.
- You will have proven experience building enduring and successful partnerships with customers, delivering appropriate agronomic advice and services.
- You will have a history of success in executing sales outcomes using your specialist knowledge of fertiliser, seed and chemical products
- You will demonstrate excellent negotiation, influencing, and communication skills.
- Your sound customer service, organisational, administrative and computing skills will be complemented by excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A tertiary qualification in agricultural science / plant and soil science or similar is essential.
- A clean and current Driver’s license is essential.
Why work for us?
A competitive remuneration package Access to incentive programs Company vehicle Purchased leave scheme benefits An additional day of leave Nutrien Day Gender neutral parental leave policy A supportive and engaging environment that will support personal / professional development Opportunities to support community partnerships across our network Be a member of a company committed to feeding the future Ongoing training and development to pursue individual ambitions A culture of learning
We foster a culture of empowerment here at Nutrien across all facets of our business. There are so many other additional ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of Nutrien Ag Solutions as we continue going further to feed the future.
Head to our website to explore our employee value proposition and employee rewards and benefits.