Are you ready to drive the future of vegetable innovation? KWS Vegetables BV is looking for a Product Development Manager in Puebla, Mexico. This role offers the chance to lead crop strategies, spearhead product innovation, and make a global impact. If you’re passionate about agriculture and eager to make a difference, join us and explore this exciting opportunity!

Key duties:

• Develop new assortment for PMCs on local and country level
• 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 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 area‘s
• 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.
• Steering breeding programs and breeding selections

Core Competencies:

• Leadership skills with ability to provide clarity and direction to stakeholders
• Result oriented, „we make it happen“ mentality
• Ability to think and act at different levels, prepared to put „boots on the ground“
• Technical
• Team player
• Analytical
• Self organizing
• Pro-active       

Your Qualifications:

• 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

About the company

Our company is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seeds with global presence in several countries.

You have what's needed for this position? Apply now by sending your application (CV) to the following email address: alberto.acuna@kws.com