Job Description

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Primary Location: Canada (CA) - Off-Site - Regina
Function: Marketing / Sales
Title: Product Specialist - 105482

Candidates applying for this position must have the proper work authorization to work in Canada to be considered for this position. Canada visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Your Responsibilites

As a Product Specialist with the Agriculture and Turf Division in Regina or Saskatoon, you will develop education material from available resources, communications, and training materials on John Deere equipment / digital & agronomic solutions. You will lead initiatives on specific products and solutions leading to development, delivery, and execution of marketing activities. You will help develop product strategy, processes, and programs to meet stakeholder needs. In addition, you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of marketing, sales and agronomic solution training to company employees, channel partners and customers on specific products that support a farming system including agronomic, process and product information.
• Establish the interface with sales branches, factory marketing, product planning and channel partners to provide accurate data and analysis to improve product market intelligence, product performance and promote sales activities on specific products. Provide feedback to other business units on customer and channel partner product improvement requests.
• Work with the channel and end customer to promote, recommend and optimize product and data solutions to meet the current agronomic trends within the assigned territory.
• Provide support or marketing assistance to products, parts, or services through phone, internet systems or field reports.
• Travel regionally or to the US to conduct after sales follow-up visits with channel partners and/or customers

What Skills You Need

• Understanding of farming and agronomic trends associated with agriculture in Western Canada
• Knowledge of products, customers and the Ag equipment business
• Sales and marketing experience
• Production agricultural industry experience
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects and/or tasks
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 75%
• Willingness to relocate for future opportunities
• Valid driver\xe2\x80\x99s license

What Makes You Stand Out

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• Production agriculture field experience with regular customer contact
• Knowledge of dealer/distribution network

Education Details

Ideally you will have a degree, or diploma with equivalent related work experience, in the following:

• Ag equipment industry
• Ag input industry
• Precision Ag industry

In accordance with the John Deere Accommodation Policy, reasonable accommodation of any of these qualifications may be considered. An equal opportunity employer, John Deere requires a diversity of people, perspectives and ideas to address the complex challenges of its global business.

This position will be posted for a minimum of 7 business days and unposted when a qualified pool of candidates is achieved.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

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