Field Solutions Specialist - Pacific Northwest, US

Responsibilities

• Provide online and in-person technical support for growers and distribution partners.
• Provide expert-level application and trial advice.
• Design, coordinate, analyze and interpret structured trials for regulatory requirements, marketing, and major growers (implementation).
• Define trial priorities and protocols in conjunction with product managers.
• Develop technical documents to support customers in conjunction with marketing, sales managers and product managers.
• Provide technical review and editing support for marketing collateral.
• Adapt existing region- and crop-specific product-use recommendations and technical documents with applicable new information as it becomes available.
• Provide prioritized recommendations to product compatibility team for compatibility testing according to market impact and needs (tank-mix, sequential, in-situ, and equipment compatibility).
• Propose and manage trial and commercial-support travel budgets in alignment with Commercial NA priorities and objectives.
• Develop and maintain professional networks and relationships with key influencers that project a trusted and respected technical image.

Requirements

• MSc. in a related field
• Minimum 5 years in a technical support, extension research, or IPM specialist role
• Practical commercial, extension or grower experience in a related field
• Experience designing and managing applied research trials
• Direct experience with customers and other stakeholders
• Understanding of current production practices, issues and constraints
• Skills in project management and time management
• Experience in writing and editing technical reports
• Experience in experimental design, statistical analyses and communication of results to both scientific and grower stakeholders
• Familiar with Microsoft 365, and at least one standard statistical analyses package (Minitab, R, SAS, SPSS, JMP)

Qualifications

• Excellent written and oral communication skills; active listening skills
• Strong collaborative skills to work effectively in a team
• Demonstrates good judgement and initiative, organized and reliable, ability to work autonomously, as well as in a team
• Strong personal motivation, work ethic and positive attitude