Agronomist - Teamlead Special Crops & Organic Seed (m/f/d)

Beschreibung

About KWS

KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. With the tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for more than 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugar beet, cereals, potato, rapeseed, sunflowers and vegetables. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods. Around 6.000 employees represent KWS in more than 70 countries. For more information: www.kws.com/career. Follow us on LinkedIn® at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/.

Head of Sub Business Unit Special Crops & Organic Seed (all gender)

Field of Work: Marketing & Sales
Location: Wetze/Northeim, Lower Saxony, DE
ID: 9788

Challenge yourself and join our team as our Head of Sub Business Unit Special Crops & Organic Seed (all gender)!
The Sub Business Unit (SBU) Special Crops & Organic Seed is a creative and dynamic group of colleagues who provide real products for future challenges. We invite you to pilot the new and master the complex with us in order to grow KWS. The Head of Special Crops & Organic Seed will work towards executing an ambitious strategic plan, that will help KWS answer some of the most challenging questions of the future, while deriving and formulating the future strategic path of the SBU within KWS. The position is located at our flagship organic farm Wiebrechtshausen in Northeim, Germany, where the SBU Special Crops & Organic Seed has its very own headquarter. You will also have the possibility to work remote partly. The contract will be unlimited and fulltime with KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA.Challenge yourself:

• Be fully responsible for the financial result of the SBU Special Crops & Organic Seed
• Drive the commercial success of SBU Special Crops & Organic Seed by effectively engaging internal sales channels and customers
• Lead and continuously develop the growing SBU team
• Strategic development of the Sub Business Unit Special Crops & Organic Seed
• Effectively engage KWS Marketing and SBU-internal Product Management to create and employ product-specific marketing content
• Leverage the SBU-internal Product Management and Production capabilities to serve current and future product needs
• Frequently travel on behalf of the business (app. 20-50%)

Build on your strengths:

• An entrepreneurial mindset and commercial understanding and drive
• Ability to manage a high degree of complexity and to build networks
• Finished study in agribusiness, agricultural economics, agriculture in general or general business
• Experience in a sales position, ideally within the agribusiness sector
• First experience in leading and managing organizational units, international teams and results
• Fluent in English is required, German would be very beneficial. Other languages would be a plus

What you can expect from us:

• As a family-run company we at KWS are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence - this culture is lived in practice creating an open and friendly working atmosphere.
• The SBU headquarter at our organic farm Wiebrechtshausen offers an idyllic modern-meets-farm working environment with its very own atmosphere.
• True to our motto “Make yourself grow”, we support employees’ professional and personal development.
• We offer excellent work equipment, and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location.
• We offer a company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and a job bike.