Sales Excellence & Training Manager

About the role

Vylor, a biotech company advancing agriculture through germplasm, biotech and gene editing, is looking for a Sales Excellence & Training Manager in Adana, Turkey. The role strengthens the effectiveness, capability and readiness of Vylor Türkiye's sales organization by leading onboarding for new Technical Sales Specialists, designing and delivering technical and commercial training, localizing global content and driving continuous capability development.

Key responsibilities

• Design and run onboarding and development programs for new Technical Sales Specialists, and build annual capability roadmaps and competency frameworks.
• Deliver agronomic and product training focused on corn and sunflower, covering planting, irrigation, fertilization, crop physiology, diseases, pests and weeds, as well as trial management and field days.
• Translate, customize and maintain training materials (presentations, manuals, videos, digital resources) and build a central training content library.
• Run dealer management, farmer engagement and customer relationship training, and strengthen needs assessment, value-based selling, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Train sales teams on Salesforce, CTB, Showpad and other commercial platforms, and support adoption of reporting standards and data quality.
• Support field events, grower and dealer meetings and demonstrations, and coach managers and field teams.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Crop Science, Plant Protection or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 in the agriculture industry.
• Fluent Turkish and English, with the ability to translate technical and commercial materials from English to Turkish.
• Valid driver's license and willingness to travel extensively across Turkey.
• Preferred: seed industry experience, previous TSS/Agronomist/Product Manager/Commercial Excellence role, training design or sales enablement experience, train-the-trainer certification, and cross-functional project leadership.

Required skills

• Technical expertise in corn and sunflower production systems.
• Proven experience delivering training, workshops or development programs.
• CRM and commercial platform experience, preferably Salesforce.
• Strong presentation, facilitation and communication skills.