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Job Description
Application Lab Specialist - Agro
Job Objective - Main Purpose
To understand and assess the customer needs and is responsible for providing Technical service & support and developing application formulation for the customers including working on product development/ formulations with existing and complimentary product portfolio
Analytical & comparative evaluation of competition offsets
Trouble shooting and optimizing of guideline recipe
All the above with objective to support Sales growth for Spec Agri Horti Azelis India
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To understand and assess customer needs in Spec Agri Horti MBU
To provide technical and application support to our customers by working with commercial and Principal team so that their products offer the necessary benefits to their consumers
To provide technical support to assist India commercial team to convert short term sales opportunities and identify future opportunities for profitable growth
To develop application formulation for Spec Agri Horti application segments
To facilitate commercialization of new launches to targeted application
To develop and support opportunities for Azelis particularly in India and utilize and support Commercial colleagues by working on available & new product lines, formulation technology and process development
To do dosage optimization thereby trying to bring out the techno commercial USP
To do networking with global Application specialists to support customer inquires
To cooperate and collaborate with Customer-Azelis interface to resolve technical issue
Understand Competition and Consumer
As continuous improvement, evaluate analytically and also in application competition offsets
Build up knowledge repository and formulation library
Exploit CRM for all Customer Interactions
Other expectations from the role
To collaborate and cooperate professionally with Azelis Commercial and Principal team
To understand and capable to provide Technical knowledge on our products with a solution mindset and application for Spec Agri Horti application to the customers
To be able to visit the customers in India Region to promote and provide technical service & support to the customers if required to support commercial team
To be able to work and expertise in developing & formulating on product and application for SpecAgro Horti segment
To be able do the presentation and conduct the Technical training session as a expertise speaker
To develop, understand and fulfill continually on new products, technologies and market trends & concepts on related applications
Internally initiate discussions, deliberations and action plan for expansion/creation of facilities based on market demand, customer requirement and growth engines.
Integrate Application Lab with global labs for creating winning propositions for Tier 2 and Tier 3 customers.
Coordinate communication between key internal and external partners including R&D, marketing, legal and business creation.Skills and Competences
Bachelors degree in Agri Sciences with min 6 years in application lab and working experience in developing different Agro formulations
Create good network with commercial and Technical teams at supplier/customers end.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Sense of ownership and drive: self-starter and problem solver who shows a bias for action, acts promptly to remove "roadblocks" and ensures accountability to get things done in a timely manner.
Highly organized, structured and flexible, able to work well under pressure and deal with multiple / conflicting priorities meeting the deadlines.
Fluent English a must-have (both verbal and written communication), other languages a plus.
Adherence to Work Culture and Ethics.
Have managerial courage to stand up against challenges and deliver to Azelis India goals