Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. The company is dedicated to improving the safety, efficacy and sustainability of crop protection through migration from chemical pesticides to biological peptides. Vestaron’s peptides provide growers with novel crop protection solutions that address proven targets and provide efficacy on par with or better than traditional chemical pesticides. Its peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficials and the environment. Vestaron has earned global recognition for its work, including the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for a novel biocontrol solution, the prestigious Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2020 and “Best New Biologic Product” at the 2021 IHS Market Crop Science Awards.

The Opportunity:
Vestaron is currently recruiting a Sales and Marketing Coordinator to join our team in Durham, NC, reporting to Director, Product Marketing. The Sales and Marketing Coordinator will be responsible for support, planning and project management for various activities across the sales and marketing function.
Responsibilities:

Trade Shows:

• Works closely with Sales and Marketing Leaders to develop trade show event plans, define timelines, identify resource requirements and execute project deliverables
• Manage the sourcing, contract negotiations, materials and logistics to deliver events and engagements efficiently and on budget.
• Attend events and tradeshows as necessary to set-up, conduct the events, and close the events with support from others on the commercial team.
• Develop strategies for driving customer engagement through events, tradeshows and marketing campaigns through Salesforce and social media channels utilized by the company.
• Drive customer engagement before, during and after events to build relationships and drive future sales.

• Support the development of sales and marketing materials such as brochures, mailings, and promotional items, including maintenance of the print and promotions portals.
• Facilitate external marketing communications working closely with the marketing, product development, and sales, in collaboration with corporate communications.
• Coordinate the production of marketing materials and literature including tech sheets and print advertising.
• Assist with the collation of information for promotional literature and giveaways
• Support the marketing and sales efforts with CRM tools and maintaining the databases and documentation
• Lead the implementation and maintenance of Hubspot

• Schedule and project plan internal meetings for the commercial team, such as recurring and annual meetings for Sales, Marketing and Field Development.
• Proactively manage an extremely active calendar of appointments ensure the Commercial Leadership Team’s productivity is enhanced by actively managing calendars, meetings, and travel schedules.
• Calendar management including setting up, prioritizing, coordinating, scheduling, and ensuring adherence of meetings and appointments.
• Anticipate potential schedule conflicts and proactively deal with them before they become issues.
• Coordinates all travel arrangements/itineraries/agendas, meals, and expense reporting for commercial leadership team, as needed.
• Preparing and managing correspondence communicating directly and on behalf of executives with internal and external parties.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study, such as Business, Communications, Public Relations, Marketing or Agribusiness
• 2+ years of professional experience in a similar sales or marketing capacity
• Experience with event management including contracts, F&B orders, A/V management, onsite logistics, event budgets, program management/ production.
• Proficient across multiple creative and content management platforms, including but not limited to Microsoft Office Suite, Hubspot, Salesforce, etc.

• Schedule and project plan internal meetings for the commercial team, such as recurring and annual meetings for Sales, Marketing and Field Development.
• Proactively manage an extremely active calendar of appointments ensure the Commercial Leadership Team’s productivity is enhanced by actively managing calendars, meetings, and travel schedules.
• Calendar management including setting up, prioritizing, coordinating, scheduling, and ensuring adherence of meetings and appointments.
• Anticipate potential schedule conflicts and proactively deal with them before they become issues.
• Coordinates all travel arrangements/itineraries/agendas, meals, and expense reporting for commercial leadership team, as needed.
• Preparing and managing correspondence communicating directly and on behalf of executives with internal and external parties.

• Demonstrated success supporting and interacting with teams in high-profile impactful organizations
• Excellent planning, organization, project management, and efficiency skills.
• Excellent speaking, writing, and interpersonal skills required; strong relationship building skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels of an organization.
• Must be flexible, versatile, self-directed, and a creative problem-solver.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with a high level of detail orientation in a deadline driven environment.

Why Join Us?
Join the Revolution…
With an innovative and accomplished leadership team guiding our day-to-day wins, and a Board with a long-term vision that supports our efforts, we set out daily to improve the safety, efficacy and sustainability of crop protection through migration from synthetic pesticides to peptide-based biopesticides. Our team is empowered to solve problems and find solutions that will advance the science and commercialization of peptides. If you’re seeking a career that taps into your talents and contributes to harnessing the Power of Peptides® for the benefit of the environment and industry, we just may have a job for you. We know our employees are our most valuable asset, and our culture conveys that.

In 2019 we opened our headquarters in the heart of RTP (Research Triangle Park, NC), a global center of Agricultural Technology and Innovation. Our lab is located on Stirrup Creek Drive, near a vibrant work environment with restaurants, shops and hotels. Our R&D center is in Kalamazoo, MI, within the Western Michigan University Innovation Center. The 69,000-square-foot, purpose-built incubator and co-working space was created to support companies from the earliest start-ups to maturing organizations with office and conference space, high-quality shared scientific equipment and resources, and a wide range of support services.

We offer a competitive benefits package, to support the health and happiness of our staff. We invite you to apply to join a company developing the products, processes, and relationships to lead the advancement of the biological peptide industry, beginning with the pesticide markets.

An Equal Opportunity Employer
Vestaron is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Vestaron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.