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Sales Representative & Product Developer, (Pepper) Enza Zaden Canada is looking for a highly motivated sales professional to join our team in Ontario, Canada. What will you do as a Sales Representative & Product Developer? As a Sales Representative and Product Developer, you maximize sales and profit with the existing product portfolio. You support the decision-making process and the successful introduction of new varieties. Your focus will be on cucurbits and tomato crops. Responsible for the budget, forecast, and pricing within the assigned group of customers and area of responsibility. Responsible for the development and maintenance of business relationships with customers. Responsible for the development of customer plans to ensure proper implementation and execution of the tactical plans. You provide reliable technical advice to customers to have our varieties successfully grown. You identify new promising experimental varieties from local screening and global Breeding. Support the introduction of new Enza Zaden varieties with technical support and clear positioning towards customers. Collect market and customer data and supply to the intelligence team. Focus on personal sales targets, new business development, maintaining customer relationships and troubleshooting specific customer problems. You will participate in cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals. Other duties as required. Your power As a Sales Representative & Product Developer, you have a good understanding of how the industry works. You remain up to date about the developments and trends in the market. You are someone who takes initiative, recognizes opportunities, and has an organized method of working. The strong communication and leadership skills you bring help you to build solid relationships between all colleagues. You are a natural communicator and connector who can work independently but is also able to work in cross-functional teams. Minimum of bachelor’s degree. Minimum of a year of relevant work experience. Excellent sales skills (gains trust, establishes a business objective, identifies customer needs, explores solutions, develops action plans, and overcomes objections through negotiation). Professional, assertive, with clear communication skills (verbal and written). Strong skills in planning and organization, influencing/persuading and you have strong management skills. Occasional travel, outside Ontario and international (10-20%). Must be an eligible driver under our insurance policy. What you can expect from us The compensation offered to the successful candidate depends on experience, skills, education, work location, and other objective job-related factors. We believe in supporting our employees both professionally and personally. As a family-owned company, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth. An attractive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance policy, and both short- and long-term disability benefits for full-time positions. Other benefits include; Retirement plan with employer match, Flexible Health Spending Account (HSA) to top up health and dental costs, Paid personal time off, Paid Volunteer time off, Monthly fitness reimbursement, Free Digital Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP). More information regarding the benefits will be shared during the application process. Our power Enza Zaden is a vegetable breeding company that develops vegetable varieties and produces and sells its seeds all over the world. We have made an animation to explain to you properly (and as briefly as possible) what we do. The purpose of our work? To offer everyone worldwide access to healthy and varied vegetables. With more than 2000 passionate colleagues all over the world, we work together every day on the vegetables of tomorrow. Would you like to know more about Enza Zaden as an employer? Please visit https://www.enzazaden.com/. Great Place To Grow - Breeding to feed the world, creating value for sustainable life and living We’d love to get to know you! Tell us who you are, what drives you, and where you’d like to grow. If a suitable opportunity comes up, we’ll be in touch. Our employees are the driving power of our company. From their specific sphere of expertise, each individual contributes to creating the vegetable varieties of the future. We rely on specialists and the wide-ranging skills amassed by people with years of experience in the field. And the innovative vision of interns and newcomers. We value this knowledge and experience and therefore invest in our people by providing plenty of opportunity for personal development and advancement. Take a look at our current vacancies and see if there is an opportunity that suits you.