Technical Field Officer - Feilding (Fixed Term)
Spend your day on the road, visiting farms and recommending the best solutions for our shareholders
- Competitive remuneration + benefits
- Flexible working conditions
- Kiwi-owned Brand - Aotearoa's largest farming co-operative
Mō te whai waahi | About the opportunity
Fixed Term 12 Months
In this role your key focus will be consulting on farms, using your industry knowledge to recommend products and services which will best meet our shareholders' needs. There will be a strong focus on account management - you will be building and maintaining relationships with shareholders from many backgrounds.
You will also be able to:
- Provide frontline support from our technical extension team in agronomy and land production
- Work closely within our local retail team in the local branches to support key relationships with customers
- Use technology to your advantage to strategically plan and execute seasonal planning with shareholders
- Continue to develop practical agronomy skills across a range of pasture and crop species
Mōhou ake | About you
- Familiar with the local farming community and their needs
- Solid knowledge around sheep and beef
- Sound agronomy knowledge
- Able to talk to anyone and confident giving technical advice
- Motivated to succeed
Mō ngā painga | About the benefits
You'll be rewarded with:
- Great reward package
- Sick leave from Day 1
- Paid birthday leave
- Access to training through our online library, The Greenhouse
- Staff discounts at Farmlands Retail Stores
- Exclusive Farmlands shareholding offer providing access to a vast array of discounts with our Card Partners
- Additional support for parents - 10 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers and 2 weeks' paid partner's leave
Mō ngā painga | About the benefits
You'll be rewarded with:
- Competitive remuneration package
- Sick leave from Day 1
- Paid birthday leave
- Access to training through our online library, The Greenhouse
- Staff discounts at Farmlands Retail Stores
- Exclusive Farmlands shareholding offer providing access to a vast array of discounts with our Card Partners
- Additional support for parents - 10 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers and 2 weeks' paid partner's leave
Te Tono | How to apply
Apply online with your CV and cover letter and we'll do the rest. We'd love to hear from you and know you'll most definitely grow your career - and us - at Farmlands.
Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.
Mō matou | About us
Be part of a great New Zealand story! Te Whenua Tāroa - Farmlands was born from people joining together to do things differently. Fast forward from our humble beginnings in 1962 and we're New Zealand's largest farming co-operative with an annual turnover of more than $2.3 billion, with over 1200 staff in over 80 locations from Cape Reinga to Bluff!
In addition to our strong core retail business, we also have a well-established shareholder card network (with over 75,000 shareholders and over 7,000 card partner locations), with operations dealing with feed production, nutrition, ecommerce, fuel, distribution, agronomy, and a wide variety of other areas.
- Team
- Sales
- Role
- Technical Field Officer
- Locations
- Feilding
- Job Type
- Fixed Term - full-time
- Position Description
- https://JobDesc.azureedge.net/ttjds/PD Technical Field Officer- Feb 2023.pdf
Technical Field Officer - Feilding (Fixed Term)
Spend your day on the road, visiting farms and recommending the best solutions for our shareholders
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