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Business Development, Mineral
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About the Team:
Mineral’s mission is to scale sustainable and regenerative farming globally through computational agriculture. This means organizing and analyzing the planet’s ag data collected by intelligent equipment & sensors, improving farm profitability and sustainability through plant-by-plant management, and unlocking biodiversity and resiliency through 10X more efficient crop breeding.
About the Role:
This role gives you an opportunity to join a fast growing team committed to unlocking sustainable agriculture globally. You will play a key role in our partnership development as we refine and implement our go-to-market strategy. You will work closely with the cross functional team to give market feedback that informs product development.
How you will make an impact:
- Identify and qualify key partners in the agriculture space to scale Mineral’s solutions
- Tailor narrative and materials to support exploratory discussions with prospective partners
- Manage deals end-to-end, including: origination, qualification, scoping, negotiation, contracting and closing
- Collaborate closely with the operations and engineering teams to transition from deal scoping and signing to hand off for implementation
- Collaborate with BD, legal and finance to craft contracts and navigate internal approvals and compliance processes
- Gather market intelligence, help shape go-to-market strategy and product features.
What you should have:
- 5 years of experience managing complex deals with multinational companies in the agricultural value chain
- Experience working in agriculture or food systems internationally
- Experience scoping and driving deals from introduction to close
- Experience managing cross-functional internal stakeholders and building senior level partner relationships
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Thrives in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrated ability to self-manage, take initiative, problem-solve, and navigate through ambiguity
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
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