Precision Ag Consultant

**Precision Ag Consultant**

**Who We Are**

Castongia Tractor is a team of professionals focused on helping our customers grow by providing accurate, timely and valuable solutions for our Agricultural, Commercial, and Residential partners’ ever-changing needs through providing high quality products, first-class product support and cutting edge new technology and continued education of our customers and employees.

**What We Offer**
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays

**Purpose**

**Responsibilities**
- Provides leadership across the organization for the sale of Precision Farming Products offered through John Deere
- Creates and executes a John Deere Agriculture Management Solutions (AMS) Marketing Plan
- Develops and delivers employee training for AMS products
- Manages the adoption of new technology and product offerings
- Manages dealership inventory processes for AMS products, customer follow-up processes, and customer satisfaction issues related to product line.
- Provides support for advanced customer training (including desktop software products) offered through John Deere
- Coordinates the execution of the dealership’s John Deere FarmSight strategy (Machine Optimization, Logistics Optimization, and Ag Decision Support)
- Develops and executes the plan to ensure ongoing AMS mainstreaming across all departments at the dealership
- Assists in leading the organization in the area of John Deere precision farming products
- Ensures understanding of John Deere FarmSight solutions and precision farming products in sales, service, parts, and all other departments
- Serves as the internal and external technical specialist for all precision farming products
- Implements the adoption of new technology and product offerings
- Develops and delivers employee and customer training for John Deere FarmSight solutions and advanced precision farming products
- Provides recommendations of stocking/inventory requirements for solutions enablement
- Provides recommendations on ordering option codes
- Provides solutions-based business consulting services to customers (i.e. advising customers on optimizing performance, reducing costs, operation efficiencies, etc.)
- May also support the dealership efforts with third-party providers (Certified Crop

**Experience, Education, Skills and Knowledge**
- 1+ years’ experience in an agriculture-related role
- Dealership sales, service, training, or other related work experience preferred
- Proficient knowledge of electrical and wireless communication systems
- Ability to operate with a solutions approach and identify existing/emerging customer needs
- Solid organizational, interpersonal, analytical and communication skills
- Ability to work flexible hours and travel to store locations and customers
- Certified Crop Advisor certification or equivalent preferred
- Associates degree in Agronomy, Agriculture Business, or Agriculture Mechanization or equivalent experience required
- Bachelors Degree in Agronomy, Agriculture Business, or Agriculture Mechanization preferred Advisor, Ag Service Provider, etc.) and related John Deere businesses