Team Lead (m/f/d) Seed Treatment Sugarbeet

Field of Work:Seed Production
Location:Einbeck
Legal Entity:KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
Contract Type: Regular
Is Full Time:
Job ID: 16098

ForKWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA we are looking for aTeam Lead (m/f/d) Seed Treatment Sugarbeet to start as soon as possible. This exciting and diverse position ispermanentfull-time and based inEinbeck.
This role offers the opportunity to grow into a leadership position while gaining deep hands-on insight into modern highly automated seed production processes. You will contribute to international projects and actively shape and improve production processes.

Join our well-established sugar beet seed processing team and complement our strong mindset for continuous improvement innovation and up-to-date technologies.

What you can look forward to:

• Lead manage and development of a well-established and motivated team
• Ensure efficient and stable operational flow by continuous technical and organizational improvement
• Manage projects in close collaboration with local processing responsibles and stakeholders across countries
• Shift- and vacation planning including organization of seasonal peaks. Anticipation of material needs
• Plan and manage budgets (personnel cost centers investments)
• Close collaboration with peers and neighboring functions (e.g. disposition technical department quality labs seed technology business partner )
• Monitor analyze and interpret production KPIs to drive performance and improvement

Bring in your strengths:

• Completed university degree or comparable qualification with relevant working experience in agriculture or industry
• Understanding of agricultural production / seed industry with focus on seed processing desirable
• Proven experience in process improvement and project management
• Fluent German and English required; additional languages are welcome
• Strong IT skills including MS Office and ERP systems (ideally SAP); experience with MES and Power BI is a plus
• Solution-oriented team player with strong networking skills comfortable with complexity and open to challenge the status quo.
• High intrinsic motivation for the role and independent working attitude
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 25%

Start your future with us! What we offer to help you grow:

• Challenging projectsin an international work environment with the opportunity to contribute innovative ideas to the agricultural industry
• Afamily-owned company culturecharacterized by closeness reliability independence and foresight reflected in an open and friendly working atmosphere
• True to the mottoMake yourself grow!we promote your personal and professional development
• Attractive additional benefits such ascapital-building benefitsholidayandChristmas bonuseschildcare allowancejob bike and more

Advanceyour career andgrowwith us in your role! Start today by submitting your digital look forward to receiving your application!

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

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