Product Development Manager (m/f/d)
- Murcia
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
- 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
- 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)
- 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