Biological Field Specialist

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all –while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Job Description

At Syngenta, our goal is to create a highly collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, delivering top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta's Commercial team is looking for a Biological Field Specialist. This position has a flexible work location and can be based in Field, Ontario.

** This is an 8-month contract position **

Accountabilities:

• Provide technical leadership to the district with a focus on registered foliar and in-furrow biological products across all crops, as well as supporting demonstration plots for pre-commercial and commercial foliar applications.
• Monitor and track biological demos, capturing field experiences and data for communication.
• Provide passionate leadership on our biological products.
• Lead demo field plots in multiple crops.
• Follow and document the field results.
• Deliver presentations to customers on biologicals.
• Provide technical leadership to the sales team.
• Support marketing material development.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in agriculture, science, or commerce.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Interpersonal skills for influencing and delivering messages.

Desired:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in the agriculture industry, with emphasis on both the commercial and research sides of the business.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with biologicals.
• Passion for biologicals.
• Practical agronomic understanding.
• Presentation skills.
• Attention to detail.

Additional Information

• Authorization to work in Canada without sponsorship

What We Offer:

• We offer a competitive base salary and incentive bonus potential, and a company vehicle combined with challenging and meaningful work, learning and career development opportunities and a great team environment.
• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes personal and professional development and offers flexible work options to meet both your work and personal needs.
• Comprehensive Benefit offering, Pension and Group Retirement program with company match, and Profit Sharing.
• Focus on Wellness and innovative programs that support overall health and wellbeing such as annual Lifestyle Account and free Headspace App.
• Progressive Employee Policies and Programs include a Flexible Work Location approach, and a vacation policy that provides up to 30 days’ vacation for all employees.

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Syngenta Contact Information: 

If you need assistance during the application process, please contact the Service Desk at [email protected]

Syngenta Canada welcomes applications from all qualified candidates and can accommodate persons with disabilities. For more information about accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process or if you would like more information on our accommodation policies, please contact [email protected].

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