Technical Grower

Fall Creek is creating a world with better blueberries through its friendly, collaborative team spread across the globe. To help us accomplish this, we are seeking a qualified **Technical Grower&Sales Support Representative Iberia**. This position will be located in **Seville**.

The Fall Creek Technical Grower&Sales Support Representative Iberia is a front-line position responsible for delivering Fall Creek’s mission; to bring exceptional plants and solutions to optimize customer success. This position reports to the Territory Manager and collaborates closely with other departments in the Company. The Sales & Grower Support is responsible for providing technical product support and executing sales for commercial customers within the Iberia Territory.

**What you'll do at Fall Creek**:

- Collaborates with the Territory Management for the development and successful execution of the commercial sales strategy in core territories and with specific strategic accounts in the territory.
- Manages commercial account relationships in the assigned territory or elsewhere as required. Anticipates needs and delivers solutions. Provides a high level of customer services to all commercial customers.
- Primary contact for all technical support to grower customers in the territory
- Executes sales activities with results measured against the sales plan and is accountable for achieving sales goals.
- Provides additional support to customers in other territories as required
- Is a “humble servant” to our customers and the industry
- Aggressively pursues new opportunities for selling our plants and genetics portfolio to existing and potential customers that value the Fall Creek brand promise.
- Assists customers with variety selection and ordering. This includes opening time, yields, flavor and berry quality.
- Works with the territory manager and Key account manger teams to help qualify potential customers, follow up with inquiries, and develop new account and sales transactions.
- Communicates nursery product timelines to prospects and existing customers
- Monitors orders and helps to assure that required deposits are received on time
- Provides feedback to management on the state of the industry in the regions served
- Provides intelligence on competition and on future of new projects; communicates this information back to sales team
- Assists the territory manager with developing the sales forecast each year, giving accurate intelligence on upcoming projects and insight into what varieties, sizes and quantities will be needed to meet future demand
- Participate as required in planning and updating of plan with production team to minimize obsolescence and maximize production of product in high demand
- Works closely with the customer service and logistic team to ensure timely delivery of orders
- Responsible for technical grower support, which includes site evaluation, pre-plant preparation and post-cultural care.
- Represents the company at regional meetings, tradeshows and industry events.
- Plans and implements educational seminars for growers and customers in the assigned region as needed
- Responsible for scheduling and managing visits to the nursery from existing and prospective customers within the assigned growing region
- Assists sales team with visitors and provides grower support services from outside assigned growing region as needed
- Assist the R+D department at the off-site trial sites by coordinating plantings, providing assistance for cultural care, and variety evaluation as needed
- Provides feedback to the global sales team and the R&D teams on variety performance as well as performance of selections in trial sites
- Collaborates with business development and new products on new opportunities for expanding Fall Creek business in the assigned territory and with key customers.
- Supports, perpetuates and enhances Fall Creek’s core values and corporate culture
- Assures the highest level of confidentiality on sensitive matters concerning nursery

**Who is Fall Creek?**

We’re a US-based company with a keen focus on blueberry genetics, plants, and grower support delivered to the world’s premier blueberry growers. From our humble beginnings in Lowell, Oregon more than 40 years ago, we now also have wholly-owned nurseries in Mexico, Peru, and Spain. Additionally, we have built a global team of the finest breeders, researchers, propagators and nursery professionals, grower support technicians, sales and customer service experts and more. We’re a deeply-planted link in a global chain, ready to serve our customers and our industry throughout North, Central, and South America, Greater Europe, and Africa. Our mission is to serve the growers and to support the blueberry industry, helping to ensure growers maximize success through our delivery of the best genetics and plants, technical know-how and global market intelligence. To fulfill our mission, we focus on cultivating exceptional plants, building s