**Description**:** GROWING WHAT MATTERS STARTS WITH YOU**

**Corteva Agriscience**, the world's first dedicated agriculture start-up, serves to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. Our employees fulfill this purpose everyday by building/participating in an inclusive culture where we encourage each other to stay curious, think differently, act boldly and do what's right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners and our planet. With over 20,000 team members from 130 countries, innovating in 140 world class R&D facilities, we have the resources, leadership heritage and partner ecosystem to make a meaningful impact now and into the future.

**_#GrowWhatMatters _**

**You Will Be Part of Growing Team**

Corteva Agriscience presents an exciting opportunity for a **Biostimulants Customer Agronomist based in Cremona, Italy.**

Reporting to Italian Biostimulants Business Leader, the Biostimulants Customer Agronomist is a crop and/or product-line expert in Italy; collects and interprets the technical needs of users, influencers and channel partners for products and products programs. The BCA translates these needs into questions to be answered by projects/trials and leads the biostimulants technical positioning within the Corteva LPCT team and inputs at project level.

Key individual in the roll out/launch of products and technical support to those products, leading and ensuring appropriate technical transfer to Corteva peers and key stakeholders.

Supports sales of existing products, providing technical support.

**Your Responsibilities**:

- Market Intelligence
- Liaises with channel partners, end users, officials, and other influencers regarding Corteva Biostimulants products and projects to collect & interpret technical needs of users, influencers and channel partners by crops, products, and programs.
- Analyze competitive environment (technical strengths and weaknesses).

**Projects Definition**
- Translates market needs into questions to be answered by projects/trials and leads the biostimulants positioning within the Corteva LPCT team and inputs at project level.
- Interacts with the Technical Teams on the exact objectives and reasons for trials / demo to support Customer Needs.
- Design and coordinate effective and conclusive demo-trial programs for new products in the Country, as defined within LPCTs. Demo trials are an effective tool to promote sales, launch products, identify commercial, opportunities, and train customers.
- Interacts with the Biologicals EMEA team in order to implement Biostimulants regional and global projects in the Country.
- Contributes to case building for new projects:

- Contributes to the completion of decision charts for new products/concepts.
- Attends the Biology review meetings, for relevant projects, and represents local needs.
- Contributes local agronomy know-how to protocol design for projects.

**Technical Transfer**
- Transfers the knowledge on biostimulants portfolio to Corteva teams. Assists in the fulfilment of Customer needs on the biostimulants matter.
- Elaborates technical literature, presentations, and commercial materials to support product positioning.
- Technology transfer to sales team, CTS, officials and influencers.

**Miscellanea**
- Coordination with European peers, within a network to search for synergies, analyzing CU opportunities (definition of common projects, coordination with IFS and Regulatory Sciences department)
- Product stewardship. Produce materials and guidelines.
- Support to CTS and Sales Team on complaints/claims.

**Location**:Cremona, Italy

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**Qualifications**:** To Grow What Matters, You Will Need**
- Degree: Agronomist.
- Other valuable requirements: PhD, MSc, solid agronomic background on Plant Nutrition, Soil Science, Horticulture, Agriculture and Plant Physiology. Project Management, good understanding of commercial environment.
- Experience: Valuable in similar roles. Strong technical knowledge about crops and crop management. Field trials, Product development or R&D. Technical selling, experience in project management, strong connection with research organizations.
- Results and business oriented. Ability to work closely with customers and respond to their needs.
- Good team worker demonstrating loyalty and commitment to the organization and team members.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Great analysis ability.
- Problem solving and adaptability.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools.
- Languages: Fluency in English.

**Who Are We Looking For?**
- Curious, bold thinkers who want to grow their careers and be part of a winning team
- Market shaping individuals who want to transform the agriculture industry to meet the world's growing need for food
- Collaborators who thrive in a diverse, inclusive work environment
- Innovators who bring initiative and fresh ideas that drive our business into the future and make us an industry leader

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