Are you looking for a professional opportunity in a global agricultural company focused on seeds and involving product advancement decisions?**KWS Vegetables** is looking for a **Product Development Manager (M/F/d)** for our station in **Murcia 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 general crop trial plan
- Member of local crop team(s); give input crop strategy, market
- customer intelligence
- Support development and maintainance product profiles
- Advice on and support introduction strategies
- Ensure implementation / alignment trial calender
**Key responsibilities**:
- Design local trialplan, execute trialplan, 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)
**Performance Indicators**:
- Quality Trialplan, design and execution
- Product profiles defined
- Preparation elevation meetings
- 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
- 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- Screen readers cannot read the following searchable map.
About KWS
KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.8 billion in the fiscal year 2022/2023. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugar beet, 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.