About Beeflow

Beeflow is a biotech startup company that leverages scientific knowledge and technology to improve the impact of ecosystem services in agriculture. Beeflow creates and manages pollination programs for farmers with the goal of consistently increasing crop yields. The company combines scientific knowledge of crop pollination, bee biology & behavior and chemical ecology with proprietary technologies including molecules that help train bees to pollinate specific crops and a plant-based bee diet that enhances bees’ immune system. This novel approach to pollination management allows growers to produce more with less.

Based in California and with operations across the US West Coast, Mexico, Peru and Argentina, Beeflow closed an $8.3M Series A in May 2021 with Ospraie Ag Sciences, Future Ventures, Vectr Ventures, Jeff Wilke (former CEO of Worldwide Consumer at Amazon), SOSV and others. Beeflow’s team of experts includes biologists, ecologists, entomologists, agronomists, and entrepreneurs.

For more information about Beeflow, please visit www.beeflow.com.

About the Sales Team

• Beeflow is a high integrity research-based company that respects the reputation of its employees, consultants, partners and stakeholders and is committed to help build a food system in harmony with nature.
• We believe in helping growers farm as sustainably as possible, and also recognize that growers must achieve a positive return on investment when considering new technologies or practices.
• We are optimistic, yet grounded in the practical realities of production agriculture.
• Our products and services are rooted in scientific principles and backed by trial results.
• We always represent our products, expertise, services and trial results truthfully and accurately.
• We will only recommend products or services that we feel confident in.
• We actively and sincerely listen to customer challenges and needs.
• We are naturally inquisitive and like to explore the topic of pollination in ways that growers might not have considered before.
• If we can help a grower achieve better pollination results, then we’ll say so. If we can’t then we’ll let them know.
• The only thing we like more than a happy customer is a prospective customer eager to try Beeflow and experience the difference first hand so can become a happy customer!
• We are low pressure and prefer for customers to guide us along at a pace that feels comfortable and natural to them.

About this role

As a Senior Agronomy Consultant, you will use your extensive specialty crop agronomy expertise to introduce and promote Beeflow products and services to prospective customers leading to in-person meetings involving Beeflow’s sales agronomy and field research team. Beeflow is foremost a science-based company, but prides itself in outstanding customer service, long-term relationships and pollination outcomes aligned to customer needs and requirements.

The Senior Agronomy Consultant plays a vital role of aligning prospective growers with Beeflow’s staff and solutions.

Responsibilities

1. Help customers achieve consistently higher yields and/or quality through superior crop pollination outcomes!
2. Learn about Beeflow’s technologies, services and trial results.
3. Integrate and leverage your plant nutrition, IPM, plant physiology, genetic, irrigation and cultural practice knowledge with pollination in benefit to customers and colleagues.
4. Line up meetings with almond, blueberry, cherry, kiwi and other growers that you think might benefit from improved pollination and higher yields/quality.
5. Actively participate in meetings with growers and Beeflow.
6. Generally represent the mission, vision and core values of Beeflow with customers and other stakeholders.
7. Gather input and insights from existing or potential customers to help refine and improve Beeflow’s technologies and services.

Requirements

• Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in agricultural science, management, or production.
  • Minimum of 20 years experience in agronomy consulting, retail sales or farm management.
  • Prior marketing, sales or product development experience related to launching new ag production products or services into specialty crop markets.
  • Able to drive during day and night.

• Preferred qualifications:
  • CCA or PCA license.
  • Strong communication skills - written, verbal and presentation.
  • Strong teamwork skills.
  • Strong customer service orientation.
  • Understanding of agronomy principles.
  • Self-motivated. Can work independently, yet collaboratively.
  • Results orientation.
  • Experience with field trial design, testing and interpretation of results.
  • Basic understanding of finance, accounting and agri-business.
  • Basic understanding of core business processes.
  • Basic understanding of food processing and marketing channels.
  • Practical farming experience.
  • An existing network of grower contacts in almond, blueberry, cherry, avocado, kiwi, strawberry and seed crop markets in CA.

Benefits

• Part-Time Consultant Position
• Competitive compensation package

Employment Type

• Contractor

Application

Please click HERE to learn more and to apply online.

Beeflow does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.