Company description

The Hudson Valley Seed Company provides gardeners and farmers with a robust and compelling catalog of over 400 varieties of open-pollinated seeds. Because we offer unique varieties that we cannot source from suppliers, we produce many of these seeds in our own certified organic fields in the Hudson Valley of New York State. We celebrate the uniqueness of the varieties in our catalog by commissioning artwork for each of our Art Packs—one-of-a-kind folding seed packets, each designed by a different artist.

About our Team

We are a team of 10-15 hard-working farmers and office folk working together to provide a compelling and life-affirming product to the world. We value commitment, diversity, communication, and kindness. We are based on our seed farm in beautiful Accord, New York.

Job description

We are seeking a friendly, driven, and inspired leader to serve as our Interim Sales and Marketing Manager from November 2019 through May 2020, with the possibility of continued employment thereafter. Candidates must be available to start training in early November.

This position will be responsible for leading our sales team through our busiest sales months of the year and achieving our sales goals across 3 divisions: Online Retail, Wholesale and Events.

The responsibilities of this position include:

• Providing leadership and supervision for the sales and customer service team;
• Managing relationships with our 300+ wholesale customers and leading campaigns to approach new customers;
• Overseeing our digital content, including our website and our social media presence;
• Managing our digital advertising campaigns;
• Supporting customer service tasks and mailings; and
• Covering the responsibilities of all sales and customer service team positions when other employees are absent.

The ideal candidate:

• Has 3+ years’ experience in a management-level sales or marketing position
• Is a good leader with a personable disposition and a zeal for mission-based commerce;
• Excels at building customer relationships on the phone and through email;
• Drives to achieve goals and get real results;
• Enjoys problem solving and thrives in a fast-paced environment operating at its busiest time of year;
• Learns quickly and adept at toggling among multiple responsibilities;
• Is comfortable making data-based decisions and working with spreadsheets and databases; and
• Is skilled at supervising a small team of employees.

Additionally, the following skills are excellent additions to an application:

• Familiarity with social media marketing;
• Experience with paid advertising via search engines and social media networks;
• Experience with the Adobe suite of design software;
• Comfort with e-commerce back-end software; and
• A background that includes gardening or agriculture experience.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $40,000.00 - $50,000.00

Application instructions

Deadline

October 11, 2019