Wholesale Field Sales Representative, Crop Protection

Summary

Join CHS as a Wholesale Crop Protection Field Sales Representative and help empower agriculture in Minnesota. In this dynamic role within our Agronomy division, you’ll serve as an Account Manager to strengthen customer partnerships, grow market share, and deliver profitable solutions. Success in this role requires strong verbal and written communication skills, a customer-focused mindset, self-starter attitude and a passion for building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll collaborate with colleagues, suppliers, and customers to deliver innovative, purpose-driven strategies that support both grower success and the CHS mission.

This role is remotely based with a home office. While exact location is flexible, ideal residency would be within the broader territory, such as the MSP metro area, St. Cloud, MN, or Owatonna, MN, to support effective customer engagement.

You will:

• Manage P and L for an assigned territory.

• Develop relationships with suppliers to assist, advise, and harness supply economics and strategies in assigned region.

• Monitor market trends and the competitive landscape needed to forecast supply requirements by month and on an annual basis.

• Utilize proficient knowledge of product offerings to increase sales and margins by prospecting new customers and executing sales programs.

• Facilitate positive long-term relationships with suppliers and customers to create long-term repeat business.

• · Build and maintain positive working relationships with current and potential customers, vendors, and internal staff.

• Prepare sales presentations, contracts, and proposals to ensure successful transactions.

• Create, develop, and execute innovative sales and marketing strategies that capture maximum value.

• Collaborate with other CHS teams to leverage business relationships, growing the CHS enterprise.

• Share knowledge and constructively contribute toward developing sales best practices among team members.

• Maintain and promote a strong safety culture and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations. Identify and communicate workplace hazards and correct or seek assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions.

• Perform other duties and responsibilities as needed or assigned.

• High School diploma or GED

• 4+ years of experience in Sales, Business Development, and/or Sales Business Operations

• 50% travel

• ​Bachelor's degree preferred in Business, Communications, Marketing, or related field

• Outside sales experience to include: presentations, utilizing persuasive negotiation skills, customer service, conflict resolution, and working independently

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Proficient in MS Office Suite:
  Excel, Word and Power Point

• Valid driver's license with clean driving record

• Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.

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