At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Agronomy Specialist

What You’ll Achieve as a Customer Solutions Agronomist:

• Get customers to choose Bayer as their go-to provider for their operations.
• Help team members run their local businesses in a way that benefits both customers and Bayer.
• Use agronomic expertise and research to boost team knowledge, improve customer experiences, and create local business opportunities through better on-farm decisions.

This is a full-time 19-month, home-based position in Grande Prairie or Peace River, with travel in the surrounding area of the Peace Region of Alberta and British Columbia.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Work together with your squad to hit profit and loss targets.
• Plan and execute tasks in short (90-day), mid, and long-term cycles.
• Adapt and reassess tasks regularly to keep making progress toward your squad goals.
• Collaborate with your team to make sure everyone knows their roles and stays focused on customers.
• Use digital tools and your agronomic know-how to support and service the full Bayer portfolio, while also using market intel and data insights to identify and prioritize opportunities.
• Contribute to a positive team vibe by helping with things like peer recruitment, selection, and giving performance feedback.
• Create a professional and safe working environment, ensuring that safety and compliance standards are met or exceeded.
• Define the technical strategy to meet your squad’s data and demand generation goals.
• Work with the Market Development team to develop and execute field testing protocols, creating agronomic solutions and launching new products with the help of digital tools.
• As the local technical expert, communicate Bayer’s agronomic position to your squad, customers, retailers, academics, and independent agronomists, ensuring new technologies are well-received by key influencers and customers.
• Provide technical support for tricky product performance questions that need deeper analysis.
• Help with weed and crop protection management strategies and other stewardship initiatives for Bayer’s product portfolio, including providing technical support and training.
• Collect and enter trial data into Bayer''s data management systems (like Velocity and Scout), ensuring the highest data quality standards, and team up with Data Scientists to analyze this data using advanced statistical techniques.

Who You Are:

• You have experience in agronomy or agricultural research, plus a post-secondary education in this field.
• You have a CCA, CCSC, P.Ag, or Order of Agronomist designation (or are eligible).
• You understand crop production, agronomy, and Bayer’s product portfolio for seed, crop protection, and digital solutions.
• You’re a strong communicator and can explain technical stuff to non-technical folks.
• You can organize and run a high-quality field research trial program.
• You have a strategic view of regional issues and understand how actions impact Bayer’s short-, mid-, and long-term goals.
• You know how to develop research protocols that meet customer needs.
• You can execute demonstrations and sales support activities on farms to back the business.
• You have a valid driver’s license and can safely operate motor vehicles.
• You’re capable of supervising and coaching summer students effectively.

Bonus Skills/Experience:

• You have advanced computer and database skills and can use the MS Office Suite, along with other BCS software (like CRM and Tableau).

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

What we offer:

• The use of a company vehicle
• Competitive compensation and rewards package
• Collaborative, diverse and inclusive culture
• Career development and global opportunities
• Work-life flexibility programs such as flex hours, employee discounts, volunteer days, wellness, and other employee offerings

Bayer is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences and believe that our people are our most valuable asset. The collective sum of individual life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities that our employees invest in their work represents our culture, reputation, and Bayer’s values and purpose.

This posting complies with the British Columbia Pay Transparency Act. The salary range for this role is $60,000 - $90,000.

All referral candidates must first be submitted via our internal referral system by a current Bayer employee in order to participate in the referral program. Once a Bayer employee has successfully referred you in our system, you will receive an automated email with instructions on how to complete your application.

This posting will be available for application until Oct 8, 2025.

Bayerwelcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Candidates participating in ourselection process requiring accommodation due to a disability or medical need are encouraged to notify the Bayer representative that they will be meeting with to ensure appropriate arrangements can bemade.

Location:

Grande Prairie

Division:

Crop Science

Reference Code:

853988