Category Manager – Crop Care Job Vacancy in AgroStar Pune, Maharashtra – Updated today

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Company Name : AgroStar
Location : Pune, Maharashtra
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Job Description : About AgroStar: AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up with a mission of #HelpingFarmersWin. Shardul and Sitanshu, started AgroStar with a vision to solve two of the biggest problems in Indian agriculture – Lack of guidance for scientific/sustainable farming & limited access to great quality farm inputs.

Today AgroStar serves millions of farmers across 5 Indian states via an omnichannel approach. Along the journey we have built India’s largest agronomy advisory center, a highly engaged digital farmer network with over 5 million users and a retail network of 1500+ stores. These channels, powered by technology, work in tandem to enable us to solve the problems faced by farmers at scale. And we are just getting started..

Funded by prominent investors like Chiratae Venture Partners, Aavishkaar Ventures, Accel Partners, Schroders Capital, Evolvence Group, Hero Enterprise, and CDC we are rapidly growing our agri-input platform and making strategic investments to solve other large farmer problems like market linkages and access to credit.

The Role: As Manager/Sr. Manager – Crop Care, you will be responsible for:

The primary responsibility of this position is to build a strong topline and bottom-line in the business category.
To monitor and track product movement, category contribution and develop strategies to liquidate slow movers and distress inventory with regional sales teams and initiate actions. Develop exit strategies for unsuccessful products.
Guide Procurement team to place appropriate orders to ensure product availability that meets Farmer demands
Determine the positioning of a category to maximize visibility on Mobile App and Offline Stores. Selecting products for advertising through online paid channels, social media etc., while ensuring pricing accuracy
Coordinate with Marketing, Campaign and Farm Solution team to determine competitive pricing and promotional activities for Category
Ensure efficient and timely forecasts for product demand to ensure the sustainability of inventory

Qualifications we look for:

Minimum 4-5 years and 5-8 years of experience in the respective industries Fertilizer/Agrochemical Industry. Also, MBA Agri Business Preferred
Strong and in-depth market & Geography knowledge. Preference to candidate having strong work experience in Western & Central India
Candidates having exposure to manage sales remotely and strong bend towards products, competition & consumer analytics.
Should have worked on the ground and should have a strong understanding of farmer pulse, Crop coverage and Crop-Product relationships.
Excellent interpersonal skills can work well with cross functional team members and can manage sales remotely .
Good Presentation and Communication skills
Desired personality traits of being a self-learner, collaborator and extra miler.
Strong in numbers and has strategic ability to drive results.

Most importantly, we are looking for passionate intrapreneurs who want to work at the grass root level, drive impact in India’s biggest sector & Help Farmers Win!

A bit more about us:

The AgroStar Solution – as described by our farmers
AgroStar Last Mile Delivery – from the lens of our partner, Brijesh Thakkar
An orange farmer’s story – Shri. Anil Deshmukh – Amravati, Maharashtra

AgroStar in the news:

CNBC Startup Street – Interview with Shardul Sheth
Series D Announcement – USD 70 Mn
Banaskantha pomegranate farmer meet

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