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BASF is the world's leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Through science and innovation, we enable our customers in nearly every industry to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring nutrition and improving quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has approximately 16,900 employees in North America, and had sales of $18.7 billion in 2012. For more information about BASF's North American operations, visit www.basf.us. At BASF Corporation, we value the differences in our workforce as they are key to the success of our business and to the achievement of our status as 'partner of choice.' Consistent with our values, BASF has an inclusive environment that promotes respect and dignity for all in the work place. BASF is proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

The overall goal of this position is to provide technical leadership on the BASF fungicide portfolio with special emphasis on Plant health related research for internal and external customers. The position requires strong communication skills and the ability to summarize and present data and positions in a clear concise manner.

The Technical Market Specialist assumes responsibility and leadership for all technical elements (biological research, labels, technical editing, product use direction, training materials, recommendations, and technical positioning) of assigned products. The manager is accountable for the product line technical support to the sales and marketing functions with the mission to increase net income via key operating objectives of increasing sales and maintaining the technical integrity of product positions.

Marketing support is achieved by direct interaction with specific marketing crop group units in the development and implementation of its annual business plans. Accountability for the income objectives of the crop groups are shared by the technical market manager. Support of the sales organization to achieve income objectives occurs primarily via interaction with resourcing of the technical service representatives.

Principal Responsibilities For Assigned Products/crops Include