Application Lab Specialist

Application Lab Specialist - Agro

Job Objective - Main Purpose To understand and assess the customer needs and is responsible for providing Technical service & support and developing application formulation for the customers including working on product development/ formulations with existing and complimentary product portfolio

Analytical  & comparative evaluation of competition offsets

Trouble shooting and optimizing of guideline recipe

All the above with objective to support Sales growth for Spec Agri Horti Azelis India

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To understand and assess customer needs in Spec Agri Horti MBU

To provide technical and application support to our customers by working with commercial and Principal team so that their products offer the necessary benefits to their consumers

To provide technical support to assist India commercial team to convert short term sales opportunities and identify future opportunities for profitable growth

To develop application formulation for Spec Agri Horti application segments

To facilitate commercialization of new launches to targeted application

To develop and support opportunities for Azelis  particularly in India and utilize and support Commercial colleagues by working on available & new product lines, formulation technology and process development

To do dosage optimization thereby trying to bring out the techno commercial USP

To do networking with global Application specialists to support customer inquires

To cooperate and collaborate with Customer-Azelis interface to resolve technical issue

Understand Competition and Consumer As continuous improvement, evaluate analytically and also in application competition offsets

Build up knowledge repository and formulation library

Exploit  CRM for all Customer Interactions

Other expectations from the role To collaborate and cooperate professionally with Azelis  Commercial and Principal team

To understand and capable to provide Technical knowledge on our products with a solution mindset and application for Spec Agri Horti application to the customers 

To be able to visit the customers in India Region to promote and provide technical service & support to the customers if required to support commercial team

To be able to work and expertise in developing & formulating on product and application for  SpecAgro Horti segment

To be able do the presentation and conduct the Technical training session as a expertise speaker

To develop, understand and fulfill continually on new products, technologies and market trends & concepts on related applications

Internally initiate discussions, deliberations and action plan for expansion/creation of facilities based on market demand, customer requirement and growth engines.

Integrate Application Lab  with global labs for creating winning propositions for Tier 2 and Tier 3 customers.

Coordinate communication between key internal and external partners including R&D, marketing, legal and business creation. Skills and Competences

Bachelors degree in Agri Sciences  with  min 6 years in application lab and working experience in developing different Agro formulations

Create good network with commercial and Technical teams at supplier/customers end.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Sense of ownership and drive: self-starter and problem solver who shows a bias for action, acts promptly to remove "roadblocks" and ensures accountability to get things done in a timely manner.

Highly organized, structured and flexible, able to work well under pressure and deal with multiple / conflicting priorities meeting the deadlines.

Fluent English a must-have (both verbal and written communication), other languages a plus.

Adherence to Work Culture and Ethics.

Have managerial courage to stand up against challenges and deliver to Azelis India goals