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 goalsRole & responsibilities