Product Development Manager (m/f/d)
Product Development Manager (m/f/d)
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Product Development Manager (m/f/d)
Field of Work:Marketing & Sales
Location: locationobj
Legal Entity: KWS SEMILLAS IBRICA S.L. (0073)
Contract Type: Regular
Is Full Time: Yes
Job ID: 15525
Are you looking for a professional opportunity in a global agricultural company focused on seeds and involving product advancement decisions
KWS Vegetablesis looking for aProduct Development Manager (m/f/d)for our station inMurcia Region Spain.This a full-time and permanent role.
Key duties:
- Develop new assortment for PMCs on local and country leveI
- Implement Crop/PMC Trial plan in line with global crop trial plan
- Member of local crop team(s); give input crop strategy market- customer intelligence
- Support development and maintenance product profiles
- Advice on and support introduction strategies
- Ensure implementation / alignment trial calender
Key responsibilities:
- Design local trial plan execute trial plan data collection draft conclusions propose elevation decisions
- Align with breeder and sales on product profiles per Product Market Combination propose priorities focus areas
- Provide guidance / input to breeding direction and breeding selections.
- Market and competitor intelligence together with sales; understand trends and drivers
- Identify unique selling points of the new commercial varieties versus competitors and existing portfolio
- Define growing protocols and growing concepts before commercial launching.
- Implementation and supporting use of tools like Mercado etc.
- Based on the portfolio PDM can have a multi-crop and cross-country responsibilities
- Hierarchical and functionally leading Trial Developments Specialist(s)
Your profile:
- Requires a minimum of a B.S. in Agronomy or Horticulture
- 3 years of experience in the vegetable seed industry is preferred
- General experience in product development
- Fluent English in word and writing additional language(s) are an advantage
- Ability to think and act at different levels prepared to put boots on the ground
- Analytical and Result Oriented we make it happen mentality
We are looking forward to your application using our online application system SuccessFactors! Please click the Apply button which you can find in the online ad.
About KWS
KWS is one of the worlds leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around 1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet corn cereals vegetables oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants resistance to diseases pests and abiotic stress. To that end the company invested more than 300 million last fiscal year in research and development. For more information: Follow us on LinkedIn at data privacy policy for candidates is available on Please select the country where the job you applied for is posted in and if applicable the specific business unit.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
