Portfolio Marketing Lead: Seed Applied Technologies

Key Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally to understand market trends, competitive actions and internal plans to identify opportunities to enable the development of a cohesive 5-year portfolio strategy and annual marketing plans to achieve the annual financial plan.
• Development of annual financial and sales objectives, including volume, price, product mix and programs.
• Interaction with sales, account management and channel partners to identify differentiated value propositions and go-to-market strategies.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders including sales, account management, regulatory, BU, legal, demand management, project management and market insights to drive aligned objectives forward.
• Serve as the foundational lead and collaborate with Demand Managers on monthly volume and pricing forecasting.
• Responsible for working with programs team and aiding in program accrual management.
• Collaborate with Marketing Communications to drive the national marketing communications strategy.
• Lead portfolio presentations at both internal and external meetings, including but not limited to customer and sales meetings.
• Collaboration within US ES Marketing Leadership Team to further overall team success.
• Coordinate with strategic marketing manager for effective oversite of local product concept portfolio management teams to efficiently achieve business objectives.

Qualifications

• Strong team leadership ability.
• Effective ability to connect, collaborate and drive aligned success.
• Experience building and executing marketing strategies and tactics to drive results.
• Excellent communication skills including questioning, listening, presentation, written and verbal.
• Financial and analytical skills.
• Ability to gather multiple points of information, distill down to key themes, develop plans and execute.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks across multiple functional areas.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Agriculture or Business.
• Minimum of 7 years of sales and/or marketing experience, preferably agriculture.