Job Description

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Seed Sales Representative

Role Purpose

• Located: Hertzogville
• Sales of DEKALB seed direct to Customers in the commercial segment ensuring that monthly and annual Sales and Delivery targets are met.
• Ensure realization of our commercial strategy in line with relevant KPI’s.
• Drive business growth for our DEKALB Seeds and create demand for our CP products and Digital Farming offering.
• Ensure compliance to corporate guidelines and compliance policies.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture and/or business administration or equivalent years of experience.
• Solid Agricultural knowledge and understanding of local market environment.
• Track record in leadership positions and seed sales.
• Previous operational experience in customer facing positions.
• Demonstrate Bayer core competencies: Customer Focus, Drives Results, Values Differences, Manages Complexity, Collaboration, and Instills Trust.
• Ability to collaborate/communicate with and develop internal and external partnerships.
• Ability to work well across both commercial and smallholder farmer markets.
• Good Microsoft Skills (Excel / PowerPoint / Word) a prerequisite.
• Highly motivated, creative, dynamic, and well organized.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Actively implement the area strategy from a sales and customer point of view with the seed sales area manager and other relevant function.
• Define and implement a differentiating area sales strategy fully consistent with country / marketing / customer strategy.
• Optimize use of commercial policies (Market funding).
• Develop and implement an ambitious and consistent sales plan in line with country objectives as well as legal and compliance rules and obligations.
• Ensure delivery of forecasted results according to sales plan utilizing superior operative sales planning (RADL methodology), forecasting, and monitoring (incl. price and product flow) mechanisms and KPIs and taking timely and matching corrective actions in case of deviations from plan.
• Closely follow up, actively share with corresponding functions, esp. marketing, and dynamically respond to opportunities, issues, market changes incl. competitor moves, adjusting tactics as required.

Application Period: 2 -16 July 2026 Reference Code: 875502
Division: Crop Science Location: South Africa : Free State : Free State
Functional Area: Marketing Position Grade: VS 1.1
Employment Type: Regular Work Time: Standard
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we want to ensure persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us at nicole.gien.ext@bayer.com
Contact Us
Address Telephone E-Mail 9 Country Estate Drive, Waterfall City, Johannesburg, 2090.
P O Box 143
Isando, 1600, South Africa
ssa.recruitment@bayer.com

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