Koch Industries

Downstream Seed Key Account Manager

Koch Industries$80K — $95K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience managing key accounts in agricultural retail, cooperatives, or seed dealers.
  • Willingness and ability to travel frequently for a national sales territory.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and build strategic relationships with retailers, cooperatives, and seed dealers.
  • Drive demand for seed enhancement and nutritional offerings across the channel.
  • Develop strategies to achieve measurable business growth in assigned accounts and territories.
  • Understand retailer and cooperative business models and seed treatment operations.
  • Communicate the value proposition of seed enhancements to partners and growers.
  • Support channel partners with on-demand seed treatment program adoption.
  • Create joint business plans to forecast demand and guide inventory planning.
  • Structure beneficial commercial agreements using sound economic principles.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and AD&D coverage.
  • Disability insurance and retirement plans.
  • Paid vacation and time off.
  • Educational assistance programs.
  • Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Agronomic Services is seeking a Downstream Seed Key Account Manager. In this role, you will drive adoption of seed enhancement and nutritional offerings through the channel by building strategic partnerships with agricultural retailers, cooperatives, and seed dealers. You will be responsible for creating value through demand generation, joint business planning, and developing scalable downstream seed treatment programs across the channel.

What You Will Do

  • Identify, segment, and build strategic relationships with customers - including agricultural retailers, cooperatives, and seed dealers.
  • Drive demand and growth of seed enhancement and seed nutritional offerings across the channel, from retailers, dealer and co-op level through to the grower.
  • Develop and execute strategies that drive measurable business growth across assigned accounts and territories.
  • Understand retailer and cooperative business models, seed treatment operations, application equipment, and seed dealer customer base.
  • Communicate and position the value proposition of seed enhancements and seed nutritional offerings to both retail partners and growers.
  • Support Seed channel partners in adopting and expanding on-demand seed treatment programs, including product placement, application best practices, and training.
  • Develop joint business plans with customers to forecast demand and support inventory and production planning.
  • Structure mutually beneficial commercial agreements using sound economic thinking and principled entrepreneurship.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Line, Product Services, Agronomy, Customer Service, and Brand and Communications teams.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience managing key accounts or selling into the agricultural retail channel, including retailers, cooperatives, or seed dealers.
  • Willingness and ability to travel frequently to support a national sales territory.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience with downstream seed treatment, including on-demand or retail-applied treating processes.
  • Experience selling seed treatment or seed nutritional products through agricultural retailers or cooperatives.
  • Established relationships within the ag retail and cooperative channel.
  • Familiarity with seed treatment application equipment, programs, and workflows.
  • Experience developing demand forecasts or joint business plans with downstream customers.


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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