Are you looking for a professional opportunity in a general 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 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