Product Developer

Enza Zaden; Leamington; On-site; USD 76,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Developer, where your expertise in agriculture will help shape the future of vegetable varieties. In this dynamic role, you'll evaluate and report on new experimental crops, ensuring their successful introduction to the market. With a focus on collaboration and innovation, you'll work closely with cross-functional teams to maximize product output and contribute to the development of new lines. If you're driven, organized, and passionate about agriculture, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing industry.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in the agricultural industry, preferably vegetable seed.
• Strong communication and sales skills with an organized work method.

Responsibilities

• Trial and evaluate new experimental varieties before commercial release.
• Coordinate and report results of research and commercial variety trials.
• Support introduction of new varieties with technical support.

Skills

Sales Skills

Communication Skills

Planning and Organization

Influencing and Persuading

Management Skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

Job description

Enza Zaden is looking for a highly motivated Product Developer to join our team in Canada.

What will you do as a Product Developer?

As Product Developer, you trial, evaluate and report on new experimental varieties in all stages before the commercial release in close cooperation with Breeding, Product management and as a member of the Sales team. Your aim is to support the decision-making process and successful introduction of these varieties. The region covered is Eastern Canada, with occasional travel to other Eastern US areas. Crops include Tomato, Cucumber and Pepper.

• Maximization of output of the product portfolio and contribution to the development of new lines of products within the crop and area of responsibility.
• Development of trial plans.
• Coordination, evaluation and reporting of results of research and commercial variety trials.
• Support the introduction of new Enza Zaden varieties with technical support and clear positioning towards the Enza Zaden Sales team and to customers and prospects.
• Identification of new promising experimental varieties from local screening and global Breeding and active contribution to the new variety decision process.
• Ensure an optimum trial material seed supply.
• Reporting critical market information as it relates to the seed industry.
• Other duties as required.

As a Product Developer, you have a good understanding of how the industry works and want to be part of a growing company. You are well spoken, driven and want to serve our customers efficiently. You remain up to date about the developments on market, product portfolio, pricing, sales, distribution, marketing, competition and observed trends in the market.

You are a dynamic person who takes initiative, recognizes opportunities, and has an organized method of working. You can work independently, but you are also able to work in cross-functional teams and intercultural project teams.

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience within the agricultural industry, vegetable seed industry preferred.
• Excellent sales skills (gains trust, establishes a business objective, identifies customer needs, explores solutions, develops action plans, and overcomes objections through negotiation).
• Professional, assertive, and clear communication skills (verbal and written).
• Strong skills in planning and organization, influencing/persuading and you have strong management skills.
• Frequent travel in territory required (60-70% of the working time); occasional travel outside the region, including internationally.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and clean driving record.

Starting salary pay range: $76,000 - $81,000

Enza Zaden is a vegetable breeding company that develops vegetable varieties. We produce and sell the seeds of these varieties all over the world. Both for conventional and organic growers. In order to explain this properly (and as briefly as possible) we have made an animation. For more than 80 years we are working with the best that nature offers. We support this with state-of-the-art technologies to speed up our breeding process. That is necessary, because currently the development of a new vegetable variety takes up 6 to 10 years.
The results? Strong, healthy, tasty, and climate-proof vegetable varieties with higher yield per square meter and less need of crop protection products or fertilizer.
Our strength? More than 2000 passionate colleagues worldwide working together on the vegetables of tomorrow. Therefore, we continuously invest in knowledge and skills.

Interested? Please submit your cover letter and resume via the following link: https://www.enzazaden.com/

Why work here?

Great Place To Grow - Breeding to feed the world, creating value for sustainable life and living.

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About Us

Our employees are the driving power of our company. From their specific sphere of expertise, each individual contributes to creating the vegetable varieties of the future.

We rely on specialists and the wide-ranging skills amassed by people with years of experience in the field. And the innovative vision of interns and newcomers. We value this knowledge and experience and therefore invest in our people by providing plenty of opportunity for personal development and advancement.

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