Organisation
About Vilmorin-Mikado
Vilmorin-Mikado is a Franco-Japanese seed producer that has specialized in creating, producing, and selling vegetable seeds for professionals since 1743. As a responsible partner in the vegetable food chain, Vilmorin-Mikado is committed to helping better nourish people everywhere. Our wide range of unique, original seeds is distributed on five continents in more than 100 countries. Vilmorin-Mikado has more than 1,000 employees and recorded sales of €230 million in 2022-2023, of which 15% was entirely devoted to research. World leader in carrots and witloof chicory, Vilmorin-Mikado is also a major player in salads, tomatoes, sweet peppers, kabocha squashes, daikon radishes and bunching onions. Nearly three centuries ago, Vilmorin-Mikado's founders began our Tree Seeds work, which actively contributes to rebuilding sustainable forests. www.vilmorinmikado.com - #VilmorinMikado
Vilmorin-Mikado is part of Limagrain, an agricultural cooperative and an international seed group owned by French farmers. Limagrain breeds, produces, and distributes field seeds, vegetable seeds and agri-food products. Focused on the genetic progress of plants, Limagrain is the fourth largest seed group worldwide. www.limagrain.com - #Limagrain
Reference
2025-10280
As part of our sales division and reporting to the Italy Sales Manager, the Sales Representative is responsible for managing the commercial operations in Sicily. This role ensures the precise execution of the company's commercial strategy in the assigned areas, driving sales activities and growth
Manage the whole commercial activity of the perimeter achieving annual quantitative and qualitative goals.
Provide commercial service and assistance to the actual and future customers.
Increase accessible and potential market by new varieties introduction and new customers.
Provide and update market information and trends.
Responsible for…
- Achieve the sales budget focusing on target and high & medium strategic level customers.
- Propose and develop tactical commercial and promotional actions.
- Update CRM with market information, customer summary reports, customer contact data, and other reliable information of customers & market.
- Manage customer claims and be the main interlocutor in case any incident in front of customer.
- Update sales forecast and fulfill FORECAST ACCURACY targets
- Follow up of payment terms by customers proposing and implementing actions in case of deviation.
- Management of customer orders, delivering accurate written information of each order through official forms and channels to customer Service.
- Implement and respect commercial pricing policy.
- Keep UpToDate on market information and transmission of market trends to the main internal stakeholders.
- Monthly activity report.
Contributes to…
- Update market information and trends and update direct & indirect customer information.
- Promotion of pre commercial varieties in cooperation with DV department.
We require...
- Hold a degree in Agronomy or agricultural studies
- Customer orientation
- Good sales and relationship skills
- Teamwork
- Good motivation and determination to reach objectives
- English (written and spoken)
- Good level of computer usage (Microsoft Office programs)
Minimum level of experience required:
- 3 years or more
- Would be considered as an asset experience in seeds and vegetable sector