Product Development Excellence Director (H/F)

Lamacompta; Angers; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Une entreprise internationale leader dans l'industrie des semences recherche un Directeur Excellence Développement Produit. Vous serez en charge de maximiser la valeur des produits développés, en travaillant étroitement avec les équipes de vente et de marketing, tout en assurant la formation et le développement d'une équipe mondiale dédiée à l'innovation. Ce poste nécessite une forte expérience en marketing, ainsi qu'une solide expertise en agronomie.

Prestations

Voiture de fonction

Opportunités de développement

Qualifications

• 5-10 ans d'expérience internationale dans l'industrie des semences.
• Expérience en ventes ou marketing.
• Connaissances agronomiques solides.

Responsabilités

• Superviser la stratégie et l'amélioration continue du développement produit.
• Former et intégrer l'équipe de développement produit.
• Développer et suivre les KPI.

Connaissances

Collaboration

Créativité/Innovation

Orientation client

Communication

Gestion des résultats

Formation

Diplôme de Bachelor ou Master en affaires, science agronomique

Description du poste

Vilmorin-Mikado is a Franco-Japanese seed producer that has specialized in creating, producing, and selling vegetable seeds for professionals since 1743. As a responsible partner in the vegetable food chain, Vilmorin-Mikado is committed to helping better nourish people everywhere. Our wide range of unique, original seeds is distributed on five continents in more than 100 countries.

Main Goal

Within the Vilmorin Mikado perimeter, the Product Development Excellence director will deploy, secure, and monitor the development of our genetic to maximize product value. This role will also be responsible for identifying and deploying new tools to accelerate innovation in collaboration with marketing and research. The individual will manage the excellence strategy around product development for tools, processes, and people in collaboration with sales leaders ( unit director , subsidiary manager, Export Sales Managers) by influencing for strengthen knowledge, skills, organization and people development in line with product development excellence.

Missions

Within the framework of the objectives and strategy of the business unit Vilmorin-Mikado:

• Monitor the deployment of product development with continuous process improvement across 12 subsidiaries and the export teams.
• Ensure high-quality trial strategy, methodology and assessment data reliability, focus on accurate data collection and forecasting for reliable trial outcomes
• Secure the training (content/deployment) and onboarding of the product development team, consisting of around 85 people globally through e-learning & special onboarding for PDM and ASM.
• Provide purpose to newcomers and secure the development of product development capabilities.
• Improve tools in close contact with commercial excellence (CRM ), Marketing (DV Plan App + PLM) and research withing Limagrain vegetable seed perimeter
• Align development priorities across the BU with marketing
• Develop and monitor KPIs.
• Participate in the recruitment, objectives, and assessment of the PDM team.
  
  

Workplace: The role is based in La Ménitré with frequent worldwide travel.

Knowledge Required

• 5-10 years of international experience in the seed industry.
• Sales or Marketing experience (4 PPs)
• Ideal focus on vegetable seeds with strong people management experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business, Ag Science, Agronomy, or another business-related field.
• Good agronomical “know how” in the field of seeds.
• Strong Business acumen.
• Languages: Fluent in English, French, and/or any other language is a plus.
  
  

Professional Abilities

• Strong result orientation, execute plans, and provide rigorous and reliable recommendations.
• Global organizational perspective and cooperation with matrix interfaces.
• Customer focus (internal/external).
• Leadership: build high-performing teams based on trust, collaboration, and diversity.
• Business acumen, able to develop and manage budgets
• Develop and empower people.
• Strategic oversight and planning.
• Managerial courage and ability to lead change.
• Sense of priority.
• Ability to navigate in a matrix organization.
  

Skills

Collaboration

Creativity/Innovation

Customer Focus

Communication

Managing for Results

Your Benefits And Working Environment

We offer you an attractive compensation package (including a company car) as well as numerous development opportunities in France and internationally.

Recruitment process

Once your application has been submitted, an acknowledgement of receipt will confirm its receipt.We will study your profile in relation to the needs of the position and the company.

If your application is selected, the following steps are part of our process:

• After a prequalification interview, you will meet your manager.
• Then we will ask you to complete personality inventories and reasoning tests that will serve as a basis for an interview with the Group's Talent Management.
  
  

Groupe Limagrain is an employer that respects diversity and encourages applications from all backgrounds

We offer you an attractive compensation package (including a company car) as well as numerous development opportunities in France and internationally.