Marketing and Sales

Achieve commercial excellence through go-to-market strategy, pricing optimization, and sales execution.

The agriculture industry is facing significant disruption, driven by macroeconomic, grower, and competitive pressures. Feeding an expected global population of 9 billion people in 2050 will require the industry to grow significantly while balancing resource pressure and increasing price volatility. We help clients address these pressing issues by identifying growth opportunities and working with them to achieve commercial excellence through go-to-market strategy, pricing optimization, and sales execution.

What We Do
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Help agriculture clients achieve commercial excellence by finding sources of organic growth and achieving above-market returns.

Ensure consistent sales execution with compelling performance evaluation, incentive programs, and rigorous performance management.

Identify growth opportunities based on macrotrends, micromarkets, and data-driven segmentation of customers.

Optimize margins with the right price strategy and architecture, and superior price execution and contract management.

Pinpoint sales growth opportunities throughout the customer lifecycle, through customer acquisition, account management, up-sell and cross-sell, value selling, and retention.

Reinvent the end-to-end customer journey with a streamlined and omni-channel experience.

Set the go-to-market architecture and omnichannel strategy, supported by efficient and effective marketing, retailer selection and enablement, and sales coverage.

Upgrade sales talent and accelerate sales capability building.

Examples of our work
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Maximizing growth opportunities

Identified $500 million in growth headroom for a US crop protection producer.

Optimizing pricing through advanced analytics

Enhanced profit margin by more than 350 basis points through pricing discipline and advanced analytics-enabled dynamic price recommendations for a global ingredients player.

Guiding market entry

Identified $80 million in revenue potential for a seed producer entering the Indian market.

Optimizing marketing and distribution

Developed a marketing and distribution plan for specialty products, resulting in a 30 percent increase in projected return on investment for a European input player.

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