Technical Development & Sales Agronomy Team Manager; IL or KS

Brief Description Agro Liquid is dedicated to achieving our vision of becoming a recognized leader in innovative agriculture, and our agronomy team plays an important role in turning that vision into measurable results in the field. By connecting agronomic strategy with regional support, technical development, research, training, and sales enablement, our team helps ensure growers, retail partners, and our sales organization receive consistent, technically sound, and commercially relevant agronomic support.

Brief Description Agro Liquid is dedicated to achieving our vision of becoming a recognized leader in innovative agriculture, and our agronomy team plays an important role in turning that vision into measurable results in the field. By connecting agronomic strategy with regional support, technical development, research, training, and sales enablement, our team helps ensure growers, retail partners, and our sales organization receive consistent, technically sound, and commercially relevant agronomic support.

• Develop and execute the annual National Agronomy Business Plan under the direction of the National Agronomy Strategist & Northern Plains RSM.
• Consolidate regional agronomic priorities, research needs, customer insights, and commercial opportunities into a coordinated national execution plan.
• Translate the company agronomic strategy into specific objectives, deliverables, timelines, and accountability measures.
• Recommend agronomic performance objectives, budget needs, resource requirements, and execution priorities.
• Identify emerging agronomic trends and market opportunities that may support future growth, product development, or customer success.
• Provide regular updates on execution progress, risks, opportunities, and recommended adjustments.

• Provide direct leadership, direction, coaching, and performance management for the Regional Sales Agronomist team.
• Establish clear team priorities, goals, expectations, and accountability measures aligned with organizational objectives.
• Support Regional Sales Agronomists through regular mentoring, performance feedback, career development planning, and professional growth opportunities.
• Facilitate collaboration, knowledge sharing, and consistency of agronomic messaging and support across regions.
• Lead team meetings, planning sessions, field alignment discussions, and professional development initiatives.
• Ensure the agronomy team remains aligned with evolving research, product, market, and commercial priorities.
• Champion a culture of technical excellence, service, innovation, accountability, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

• Lead the Regional Sales Agronomist team in developing and executing agronomy plans that support the six business regions.
• Translate SAM and RSM market opportunities into agronomic support plans, training priorities, field development needs, and customer-facing activities.
• Ensure timely, consistent, and technically sound agronomic support for Sales Account Managers, Regional Sales Managers, retail partners, and customers.
• Monitor regional agronomy needs and recommend adjustments to improve effectiveness, resource allocation, and business impact.
• Support regional meetings, customer events, field days, demonstrations, and market development initiatives as needed.

• Translate Agro Liquid agronomic philosophy into practical tools, training, field guidance, and sales enablement resources.
• Ensure Regional Sales Agronomists, Sales Account Managers, retail partners, and interns understand and consistently apply Agro Liquid agronomic principles.
• Identify gaps in field understanding, technical messaging, or customer-facing application and recommend improvements.
• Maintain consistency of agronomic messaging across regions, teams, customer interactions, and training platforms.
• Support the development of scalable learning pathways focused on agronomy, product knowledge, sales effectiveness, and customer value.

• Lead the intake, organization, and prioritization process for regional research requests and Product Field Evaluation needs.
• Coordinate with Regional Sales Agronomists, Innovation, NCRS, AIM, Product Management, and Marketing to execute approved research and field validation priorities.
• Support deployment and execution of field protocols across regions.
• Ensure…