Job Description
Posting Start Date:  2/12/26
Offer ID:  1732
Unit:  Vilmorin-Mikado
Job Title:  Sales Representative
Job Location:  Istanbul - Vilmorin Mikado Turkey (head office)
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Join Our Sales Team

Vilmorin Mikado is seeking a Sales Representative located in Adana, responsible for driving commercial growth within an assigned geographical area. This role focuses on executing sales and marketing activities, strengthening customer relationships, supporting new product launches, and contributing to sustainable business expansion while ensuring full compliance with applicable competition laws and company policies.

Main Goal

To achieve sales targets and expand market presence by effectively managing customer accounts, identifying growth opportunities, and promoting Vilmorin Mikado products through ethical, compliant, and customer-focused sales practices.

What we expect of you

  • Execute sales strategies and provide accurate sales forecasts for the assigned territory

  • Present commercial offers and manage the full order-to-delivery process in coordination with internal teams

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with distributors, growers, traders, and key stakeholders

  • Travel regularly within the Southeast region to visit existing and potential customers

  • Monitor market trends and competitor activities using lawful and publicly available information

  • Support new product launches through field visits, demonstrations, and promotional activities

  • Maintain an up-to-date customer database and deliver regular reports to sales management

  • Coordinate with relevant departments to resolve customer complaints effectively

  • Monitor customer financial reliability in cooperation with the credit department

  • Provide market insights to support product positioning and value-based pricing

  • Identify risks, opportunities, and growth areas within the territory to support business expansion

  • Achieve sales targets and contribute to sustainable business growth in the assigned area

Qualifications

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or a related field
  • At least 3 years of field sales experience, preferably within agriculture, seed, agro-products, or direct sales
  • Strong understanding of market dynamics and customer needs
  • Good knowledge of IT tools and business applications
  • Working knowledge of English

Core Competencies

  • Excellent negotiation and closing skills
  • Strong results orientation with high commercial awareness
  • Ability to build long-term customer relationships
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Effective planning and organizational abilities
  • High level of autonomy and proactivity
  • Positive attitude and strong teamwork skills 
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Vilmorin-Mikado is a Franco-Japanese seed producer that has specialized in creating, producing, and selling vegetable seeds for professionals since 1743. As a responsible partner in the vegetable food chain, Vilmorin-Mikado is committed to helping better nourish people everywhere. Our wide range of unique, original seeds is distributed on five continents in more than 100 countries. Vilmorin-Mikado has more than 1,000 employees and recorded sales of €230 million in 2022-2023, of which 15% was entirely devoted to research. World leader in carrots and witloof chicory, Vilmorin-Mikado is also a major player in salads, tomatoes, sweet peppers, kabocha squashes, daikon radishes and bunching onions. Nearly three centuries ago, Vilmorin-Mikado's founders began our Tree Seeds work, which actively contributes to rebuilding sustainable forests.

Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d’Allier plain, in the heart of Central France’s Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of 2.522 billion euros in 2023-2024, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.
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