Regional Agronomy Manager

At Nutrien, our purpose is Feeding the Future and we do so with safety, inclusion, integrity and results as our core values.

Nothing is more important than sending our people home safe, every day.

Nutrien Ag Solutions is the retail division of Nutrien™, the largest crop inputs company in the world. As part of our collective mission of Feeding the Future, Nutrien Ag Solutions provides full-acre solutions through our trusted crop consultants at more than 2,000 locations in North America, South America, Europe and Australia.

For more than 150 years, we have been helping growers achieve the highest yields with a wide selection of products, including our proprietary brands : Loveland Products, Inc.

Proven®Seed and Dyna-Gro®Seed; as well as financial, custom application and precision ag services.

We harvest the best. Diverse views and experience make us strong. We look for people who have a safety-first mindset, who are collaborative team players, who deliver on their commitments, act with integrity, and who support inclusion.

Working at Nutrien Ag Solutions will provide you an opportunity to help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be, and grow your career.

The Regional Agronomy Manager - West Region (WA, OR, and ID) plays an important role enabling organic growth through technical leadership and optimization of our North American Agronomic Network.

This role will collaborate with Region and Division leadership, Proprietary Products, Seed, Digital Agronomy, Sustainability, and local Agronomists to prioritize and execute field validation trials and training of specific products, technologies, and solutions.

This role will lead programs that increase product knowledge, confidence, and adoption of predictable, proven sustainable solutions and deliver locally validated outcome-based products and solutions that align with grower challenges and commercial objectives.

What you will do :

Provide leadership and set a clear vision for the Regional Applied Agronomy team and align capabilities with the needs of the respective Divisions and Nutrien Ag Solutions’ strategy.

Prioritize and oversee execution of applied field demonstrations, solution validation, data capture, visualization, and training in the assigned region to support regional and division business objectives.

In partnership with Division Marketing Managers, drive local technical marketing efforts focused on addressing grower pain points and production challenges while navigating them towards useful solutions.

Collaborate with data science and digital agronomy teams to build capabilities that optimize agronomic data capture, analysis, learnings, and knowledge transfer.

Establish and optimize a cyclical process to convert data into valuable, usable, locally relevant information and disseminate to support divisional business goals.

Collaborate closely with Division Leadership and local sales teams to identify and fill education and knowledge transfer gaps.

Increase crop consultant product knowledge, sales confidence, and adoption of predictable, locally proven, sustainable products and solutions.

Model our core value of safety by enabling a culture in which you are actively contributing to a safe work environment.

Other duties as required.

What you will bring :

Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in agronomy, plant pathology, entomology, weed science or related field; experience may be considered in lieu of education.

Master's or Ph.D. preferred.

8+ years of related experience required, preferably with consultative agronomy, 10+ years of experience preferred.

Strong business acumen, self-motivation, assertiveness, and results-oriented approach, in which you demonstrate a proven ability to influence and build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Strong computer skills, including Precision Ag, statistical software, PowerPoint, reporting tools, etc., and a demonstrated ability to lead and train others in both new technologies and the use and application of crop inputs.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in which you demonstrate the ability to engage effectively with your assigned team as often as is needed.

Active participation in one or more professional agricultural organizations desired.

Current and ongoing maintenance of a valid driver’s license.

Willingness and ability to travel extensively up to 60% of the time.

Compensation & Benefits :

The estimated salary that Indeed, Glassdoor and LinkedIn suggested does not represent Nutrien's compensation structure.

Salary range $90,000 - $147,000 / annually. This range is estimated for a Regional Agronomy Manager in the State of Washington.

Actual salary and benefits may differ based upon location.

We provide an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, and life insurance and well as disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week.

In addition, we have a retirement program that encourages our employees to save for the longer term, with generous matching employer contributions.

Our benefit package also demonstrates our culture of care with paid vacation, sick days and holidays as well as paid personal and maternity / parental leaves and an Employee and Family Assistance Program.

Details of the benefits package will be shared in the application process.

In addition to base pay, this role is also eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan and long-term incentive plan, consistent with the terms of our program(s) where discretionary pay out of awards is reflecting components such as performance of the company and the employee.

Details will be discussed through the application process.

This information is provided in compliance with applicable state equal pay and pay equity legislation and is the company's good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position.

The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons.

Nutrien also makes internal equity a consideration in all pay decisions.