ASSISTANT SALES MANAGER BENELUX H/F

Job description

Entreprise:
Sencrop, an European ag-tech start-up company, based in Euratechnologies (Lille, France), is looking for ag-engineer students (master 2 degree) for a first amazing experience in the boyant universe of precision farming.
Positioned at the cutting edge of innovation in connected agriculture, Sencrop wins top award for its high-precision agrometeorological station and platform at the 2017 SIMA Innovation Awards ceremony.
Today, agriculture decisions rely more and more on data analysis.
At Sencrop we are a passionnate team dedicated to making a real impact in agriculture.
Sencrop empowers ALL farmers to make the right decisions at the right time to improve their yields, and ultimately their way of life :
- View the current conditions of their fields in real-time
Make better agronomic decisions thanks to ultra-local weather information
- Interact with their partners based on streaming data
Thanks to low-power long-range networks and affordable connected sensors, in-field data can stream continuously into the Sencrop mobile platform.
In the context of acceleration of our growth, we are gathering all those dedicated to bringing valuable precision farming services to farmers.
Your mission:
- Assist the Benelux sales manager (especially in Flanders and the Netherlands)
- Provide commercial support to the sales manager and quickly expand in this key area
- Identify top leads ans business opportunities
- Meet with farmers’ groups
- Boost commercial contacts and facilitate commercial presentation
- Prepare and assist in national and international tradeshows (France and abroad)
- Welcome visitors on the booth and present the innovative service that the company has developped, distribute flyers and leaflets during the agricultural trade show
- Report to Business Development Manager / Sales & Support Executive
- Gain experience in outbound communications, by contacting potential customers
- Lead generation and creative research of potential partners.
- Gain experience in customer support. Handling multiple types of operational issues.
- Gain experience in product testing
- Community management on twitter, facebook, … Post some event announcements on social networks and internet
- On-line leads generation, communication and writing through white paper, posts, blog, …
- Web analytics of the offline and online communication campaign
- Think about product opportunities and improvment, customer involvement (app, services) in contact with customers
- Phoning campaign to get in relation with leads and customers, and follow-up/reminder calls
Skills:
- Sense of initiative, comfortable relationship, strong business character and search for autonomy, optimistic person, customer-centric
- Good knowledge of agriculture and real interest in precison farming (notably potato plant)
- Good communication skills including engaging and appropriate phone manner and good spelling and grammar
Requirements:
- Speak fluent Dutch and English (or Dutch and French)
- Flexibility, dedication
- Pleasant and positive attitude