Global Product Manager Beans
Are you ready to take on the exciting challenge of shaping the global market for beans? Then join us to become our new Global Product Manager Beans! As a dynamic and innovative family seed company, we are on a mission to expand in the vegetable seed industry and specifically to further expand our presence in the bean market. As a Global Product Manager Beans, you will outline a clear crop strategy and drive choices when it comes to our bean assortment. You know how to get all stakeholders involved and make them support your plans. Do you have what it takes to build a strong and competitive bean assortment to increase our market share and realize our growth ambition?
Design a global trial plan in line with the crop strategy, including organizing meaningful evaluations and data collection to make professional and market-oriented elevation decisions.
Act as a linking pin by getting R&D, sales, and seed supply aligned.
Salesforce is a really important tool within our organization. You will actively use Salesforce to store your customer data and use all the data from CRM to further optimize your portfolio strategy.
Develop an optimized portfolio per Customer Team and support successful commercial introductions of varieties by developing the right sales tools and setting up the right communications strategy via Salesforce.
Coordinate with Breeding and Sales on mid/long term breeding objectives, priorities and product specifications and ensure clear communication between all stakeholders.
Understand the food supply chain, detect challenges and translate this knowledge into relevant solutions for our partners.
Monitor the margin development of the portfolio and advise on value based pricing.
You will use our Product Management system Mercado to bring focus into your trial evaluations.
Lead the yearly performance review in the crop business plan together with breeding, seed supply, finance
During the period of May – September, you will travel extensively (75% of your time) throughout Europe and the United States to evaluate trials on site and talk to customers.
A minimum of a BS degree in Agronomy with 5 or more years of experience in the international seed industry, preferably in vegetable seeds.
A helicopter view to connect the dots; you are good at steering things to make sure the right things will happen.
You are goal-oriented and have a team-oriented mindset. Successes are celebrated together, and you are driven to achieve goals together.
You are a natural born leader.
You are able to work with different cultures. For example, you will deal with West Frisian, American and Southern and Eastern European cultures. It is important that you can have everyone on board with you.
You are comfortable with matrix interfaces.
You are fluent in spoken and written English. Additional language(s) are an advantage.
You will be working for an international and fast-developing company that produces the very best seed.
It’s a fantastic opportunity to develop your work experience in a unique organization.
You get lots of freedom and responsibility to get the job done.
Your working environment is very inspiring and consists of a diverse and growing team of experienced gurus and young talents.
You’ll get a competitive salary.
You get to work with the most fantastic colleagues.
Will you become our new Global Product Manager for Beans? Then apply for this position and become part of The Vegetable Squad! For more information about this vacancy you can contact Joost van den Eijnden, Commercial Director, via +31 (0) 621 235 689 or jvandeneijnden@popvriendseeds.nl. If you would like to respond immediately, then click on the button below.
Part of the KWS family - Seeding the future
KWS Vegetables is the ambitious vegetable unit of KWS. It operates under the brand names KWS Vegetables and Pop Vriend Seeds and is growing rapidly via breeding programs, licensing and acquisitions. Our passion for great genetics combined with KWS's superior technology already delivered some great results. We are seeding the future together!