Product Manager
Location: Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
ID: 8782
Field of Work: Marketing & Sales
As part of our growth strategy and our plans, we are looking for a hands-on Product Manager, based at KWS Vegetables in Italy, Spain or the Netherlands. In this new role the Product Manager will co-develop the product portfolio (tomato, pepper, melon, watermelon or a combination) for our business unit. He/she will report to the Head of Global Sales & Marketing.
Job purpose:
Contribute to the competitiveness of the worldwide KWS vegetable breeding portfolio by continuous managing the portfolio range from evaluation and development until commercial introduction. In this pioneer role you have the ability to build something from scratch.
Key responsibilities:
- Managing Crop portfolio(s)
- Making short & midterm planning Crop portfolio(s)
- Steering P&L process from Product Marketing perspective.
Your tasks:
- Manage the portfolio range to ensure the short/midterm term profitability for the BU vegetables
- Ensure efficient communication with Breeding and Sales on breeding objectives and product specifications at mid/long term
- Manage the evaluation and development of new varieties in pre-commercial phase
- Manage the preparations for commercial introduction of a variety together with the local sales team(s)
- Optimize turnover and margin of portfolio range through supply chain expectations, sales potential evaluation and variety pricing
- Collect marketdata in collaboration with development and sales teams,maintain market information database
Your profile:
- A minimum of a B.S. degree in Agronomy
- Preferably 3-5 or more years’ experience in international seed industry, preferable in vegetables seeds.
- Fluent English in word and writing, additional language(s) are an advantage
- Willingness to travel internationally ~50% of time.
- You are commercial, result orientated, self-organized and pro-active
Application
Do you recognize yourself in this job description or would you like to know more about this role within KWS Vegetables, please contact our Head of Global Sales & Marketing, Thom Schepers (Thom.Schepers@kws.com).
Please click HERE to learn more and to apply online.
More positions from: KWS Italia S.p.A. Posted from January 20, 2022 until July 20, 2022 SeedQuest reference number: 134810 |