Agronomy Specialist, Agricultural Solutions

About the role

BASF Agricultural Solutions is looking for an Agronomy Specialist to join its UK Field Sales Team. You will drive growth in strategic accounts by building trusted relationships with commercial and technical stakeholders, delivering tailored agronomic expertise and executing account-specific initiatives. The role is home-based, ideally in a main UK arable area, with frequent national travel.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with commercial and technical stakeholders across strategic accounts, acting as the primary agronomic contact and supporting account growth, customer engagement and KPI delivery through CRM management.
• Run account-specific technical activities, field trials and demonstration programmes with Key Account Managers, Commercial Managers and Business Development Managers.
• Contribute to account planning with technical and commercial expertise, identifying growth opportunities and addressing customer agronomic challenges.
• Share market, customer and account insights gathered through stakeholder engagement, using CRM data to support marketing campaigns, demand creation and market intelligence.
• Stay up to date with agronomic trends, product developments and competitor activity, turning this into technical guidance for key accounts.
• Deliver high-quality technical communications and resolve customer queries and complaints promptly.

Required profile

• BSc in Agronomy or a related discipline, with a BASIS qualification.
• Proven commercial experience in the UK agricultural sector with a track record of business growth.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, able to engage and influence senior customer stakeholders.
• Excellent commercial acumen combined with deep agronomic expertise.
• Ability to align technical and agronomic activities with commercial objectives and to use market intelligence and customer feedback to support business strategy.
• A valid UK driver's licence is essential.

What we offer

• Attractive salary and performance-related bonus scheme.
• Defined contribution pension scheme and company share scheme.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Private healthcare and life insurance.
• On-the-job training and development, and a company car.