Education programmes of job
Nature of work
It is a profession in agriculture sector. He/she works independently or as a team member in identifying the agricultural products marketing targets and policies, overseeing the implementation, testing the market, preparing the technical reports, managing, working on developing their skills, developing procedures and providing requirements of occupational safety and health. The tasks are:- Identifying the general and subsidiary objectives of agriculture products marketing.
- Analyzing agricultural product cycle
- Identifying products marketing success and failure causes.
- Analyzing competitors prices
- Evaluating advertisement effectiveness and pre-market new product quality.
- Developing marketing implementation timetable and prices policies.
- Comparing marketing implementation polices results.
- Following up quality standards development system.
- Identifying work materials, equipments schedule, and qualification.
- Preparing technical reports.
- Developing procedures and working methods using modern techniques.
- Evaluating performance, and determining their need for training to develop their skills.
- Providing occupational safety and health requirements.
Environment of work
- He/she works about 8 hours a day except in weekend, but sometimes he/she works extra time during marketing seasons
- Work environments ranges between office, field, and markets.
- Working independently is possible in case of experience consultation.
- Full time job is required.
- This job can be carried out by men and women.
- This career is in evaluation and need for appropriate work nature.
- He/she can work independently in private marketing institution
- He /she should keep to international marketing standard specifications conditions and work to achieve quality performance.
Professional life
- Marketing engineer job is very important for agricultural product development, so most countries work on hiring marketing engineers at agricultural products markets.
- He/ she gains modern academic and practice experience by training, seminars, and various activities
- He can work independently or as a team member in private or public sector.
- His/her salary at the beginning of work in public sector will be 20000 Syrian Pounds
- He/she contributes in determining the general and subsidiary objectives of agriculture products marketing, components, agricultural product cycle, and determines success and failure reasons.
- He must analyze competitors prices, and develop prices polices, and determine promotion programs
- He/she should select distribution channels, and evaluate advertising effectiveness to develop marketing timetable policies.
- This career path evolve when gaining practical and management experience through career progression starting as marketing engineer then to larger marketing departments including marketing planning tasks.
- Superior institutes graduated students can pursue their studies in suitable colleges
- This job sometimes requires to travel abroad for training
Sectors of careers
- Marketing companies
- Livestock farms
- Farms Field Crops
- Agro-food and agro-processing institutions
- Agricultural Research Centers
- Agricultural Products Marketing institutions
- Agricultural engineering colleges and technical institutes.
Getting the job
- For getting this job, the person has to study in Agriculture Faculty,(or Economic Faculty) Department of Essential Sciences, or Department of Agricultural Economic.
- The students during that should get some related courses such as: Plants production economics, animal production economics, agricultural policy, agriculture finance, agriculture extension, math economics, agricultural experiments design and analysis, agricultural production planning and organizations, extension programs planning and evaluation, rural community, economics, rural development, agricultural projects analysis and evaluation, agricultural prices and analysis, agricultural marketing and some supporting knowledge such as foreign languages, computer programming, engineering quality knowledge.
- Preferably, Agriculture Faculty graduated students pursue their graduated program studies in the Department of Agricultural Economic to get their master's and Ph.D. degrees.
Skills
- Ability to work effectively as a multidisciplinary team member and be familiar with the various work environments.
- Ability to demonstrate effective interpersonal work environment skills in the term of the ability of solution and ideas creation.
- He/she should have essential sciences of the different majors conversance.
- Continuous self- learning to convoy with the rapid technological development, and the ability of the major knowledge and skills transferring.
- Ability to achieve the required work on time with efficient time management and work according to priorities.
- Ability to manage tasks and resources efficiently.
- He /she should have professional standards and ethics commitment, and evaluate subordinates performance and raise their skills
- He must have good manners and work burdens bearing
- Ability to develop marketing policies timetable.
- Ability to compare the results of marketing policies implementation.
- Ability to test the new product pre- market quality according to business requirements
Sources and references
- Agriculture Faculty Internal Regulation 2007 – Aleppo University.
- Arab Standard Classification of Occupations- Arab Labor Organization-2008.
- National Academic Reference Standard (NARS)- Syrian High Education Ministry- 2012.