NAMA Marketer of the Year Short Form

NAMA Marketer of the Year Award
On-Line Nomination Short Form
Deadline January 15, 2010

Objective: The award honors outstanding accomplishments in the field of marketing directly to ag producers. Nominees are solicited from agribusiness and related companies with overall marketing and/or sales responsibilities.

Eligibility: Individuals should possess overall responsibility for marketing and/or sales of their company or organization and be directly associated with a company or firm marketing product(s)/service(s) to farmers or ranchers. Nominees MUST be NAMA members.

Please use this form as a quick way to nominate someone for the NAMA Marketer of the Year Award. If the person you submit is chosen as a finalist, we will contact them directly to receive any additional information (i.e., biography, photo, etc.) Please press "submit" when you are finished to send your nomination to NAMA.

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Please address the following areas of outstanding leadership:
Accomplishment (40 points): Discuss the nominee's accomplishments on the basis of innovation, marketplace success, and agribusiness impact. Have the nominee's accomplishments involved new concepts, methods/models, and the use of marketing research or market-based knowledge? How do the accomplishments of the nominee distinguish them among industry peers? Primary emphasis should be placed on accomplishments within the past 18 months. Innovative Ability (20 points): Discuss the nominee's understanding of current issues and needs related to agribusiness. How has the nominee's leadership style contributed to unique approaches and demonstrated leadership in action. Please site practical examples from the nominee's professional career. Marketing/Sales Responsibility (20 points): Discuss the nominee's responsibility for marketing and/or sales. Discuss marketplace challenges and the nominee's marketing strategy and tactics used to answer challenges and initiate creative solutions. Demonstrate how initiatives have contributed to the overall marketing and/or sales success. Examples include improved profitability or market share. NAMA/Industry Involvment (20 points): Discuss how the nominee's service has had a significant positive impact on NAMA or other industry related organizations. Discuss the how the nominee has demonstrated consistent participation and commitment to NAMA or other organizations. How have the nominee's activities served to enhance the image or to foster improvements of NAMA?