Product Development Manager (M/F/D)

Legal Entity: KWS SEMILLAS IBÉRICA S.L. (0073)
Contract Type: Regular
Is Full Time?: Yes
Job ID: 14534
KWS Vegetables is looking for a Product Development Manager (m/f/d) for our station in Murcia Region , Spain . This is a full-time and permanent role.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop new assortment for PMCs on local and country level
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 of product profiles
Advice on and support introduction strategies
Ensure implementation/alignment of trial calendar
Additional Responsibilities:
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 multi-crop and cross-country responsibilities
Hierarchical and functionally leading Trial Developments Specialist(s)
Performance Indicators:
Quality Trial plan, design and execution
Successful introductions
Define growing protocols and growing concepts before commercial launching
Your Profile:
Requires a minimum of a B.S. in Agronomy or Horticulture
3+ years of experience in the vegetable seed industry is preferred
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
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