Product Manager Sugar Beet

Product Manager Sugar Beet

Field of Work:  Marketing & Sales
Location: 

Several (TR), Several (TR), TR

Legal Entity:  KWS Türk Tarim Ticaret (0090)
Contract Type:  Regular
Is Full Time?:  Yes
Onsite/ Remote:  Hybrid Working Within Country
Job ID:  14891

KWS Türk is looking for a Sugar Beet Product Manager to join their Product Management team, to be based in cities of Konya or Kayseri. This position is unlimited and full time.

 

Essesntial Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Collect information on the products, market and technologies by following up and monitoring trials
  • Define the optimum positioning of the products (technical, economical, customer segments)
  • Manage assigned KWS product portfolio and optimize the products mix, in view of maximizing the market penetration and achieving revenues and profitability target
  • Follow the products life cycle (development, launch, growth, maturity and decline)
  • Implement and follow up the commercial strip & demo trials.
  • Support product positioning for each region and environment.
  • Support create content and sales argumentation.
  • Lead the technical trainings of the sales team and technicians of sugar industry and dealers.
  • Support the sales and marketing team with marketing activities and sales expansion
  • Execute actions with opinion-leaders, farmers, other channels.
  • Conduct demo fields with technical and commercial purposes (field days, training, etc).
  • Support handling technical complaints. 
  • Support with technical analysis, preparing annual Agroservice Newsletter, etc

 

Background and Skills Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering departments of universities, preferably with master’s degree on sugar beet.
  • Min 5 years of experience in agricultural sector. 
  • Experience and knowledge of Turkish farming conditions, agricultural market and the seed business.
  • Fluent Turkish ad English Language, verbal and written.
  • Tech savvy, advanced user of IT tools, Microsoft Office and internet. 
  • No restrictions for travelling abroad. 
  • No restrictions for frequently travelling in Türkiye (at least 50% of time). 
  • Valid driver´s license and no restrictions for driving frequently.
  • For male applicants, military service completed.

 

We look forward to receiving your online application via our SuccessFactors application system! Please use the "Apply" function in the online application for this purpose.

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About KWS
KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, 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. For more information: www.kws.com/career. Follow us on LinkedIn® at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/.

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