Account Manager Red Beet Europe

KWS SAAT SE; Andijk; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

KWS SAAT SE recruits for an Account Manager Red Beet Europe. You will drive strategic objectives by translating retail and food-trends into actionable plans, coordinating with the Red Beet Global Customer Team and partnering with growers, processors, retailers, and internal KWS units.

You will lead market intelligence, identify growth opportunities, and help position the red beet portfolio across Europe. Travel internationally is expected, with a focus on building long-term partnerships and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in vegetable seeds.
• Bachelor-level degree in business, agriculture, or horticulture.
• Willingness to travel internationally (approximately 20-30%).

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute account and market plans in line with the Red Beet strategy.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships across the red beet value chain.
• Connect customers, partners and internal stakeholders to deliver impact together.
• Lead market intelligence activities and identify emerging trends, customer needs, competitive developments and growth opportunities.
• Drive adoption of innovative traits, concepts and integrated solutions throughout the value chain.
• Identify growth opportunities and strengthen KWS’ market position in red beet.
• Use Salesforce as the foundation for account management.

Skills

Teamplayer

Data-driven

Entrepreneurial mindset

Strong communication

Education

B.S. in Business, Commercial, Agronomy, or Horticulture

Tools

Salesforce

Power BI

Job description

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Field of Work: Marketing & Sales

Location:

Andijk, NorthHolland, NL

Legal Entity: BU Vegetables (501)

Contract Type: Regular

Is Full Time?: Yes

Onsite/ Remote:

Job ID: 16809

KWS has the ambition to be a leader in the global red beet market. As our Account Manager Red Beet Europe, you'll be an important stakeholder in realizing this objective. This role means you are at the heart of a dynamic international market, connecting growers, processors, retailers with our internal KWS-organization. You will not just build relationships, but you are an important key-player in our organization to drive strategic ambitions and provide input for our Portfolio, Pricing and Positioning of our differentiating traits and concepts.

You bring insights from the value chain into our strategy. This means that you are able translate retail and food-trends into strategic objectives and align with your colleagues of your Red Beet Global Customer Team. You can identify where we can create value, and help ensure that our red beet portfolio lands where it makes the biggest impact. To be successful in this aspect you need to be able to understand the value of our traits and solutions, meaning that you understand growing red beets.

Red Beet is a strategic crop in KWS and being able to collaborate with our big brother KWS Sugar Beet, gives us as KWS Vegetables lot’s of opportunities. You’ll be the voice of the market within KWS and play a key role in strengthening our position in red beet across Europe. Hands-on, commercial, and always focused on building long-term partnerships and sustainable growth.

Your responsibilities

• Develop and execute account and market plans in line with the Red Beet strategy
• Build and maintain strategic relationships across the red beet value chain
• Connect customers, partners and internal stakeholders to deliver impact together
• Lead market intelligence activities and identify emerging trends, customer needs, competitive developments and growth opportunities.
• Drive adoption of innovative traits, concepts and integrated solutions throughout the value chain.
• Identify growth opportunities and strengthen KWS’ market position in red beet
• Use Salesforce as the foundation for account management

Skills & experience

• A real Teamplayer: work with stakeholders of product management, breeding, seed-tech, operations and supply on joint objectives
• B.S. In Business, Commercial, Agronomy, Horticulture
• 5+ years of experience in vegetable seeds
• Strong understanding of vegetable production, fresh supply chains and market dynamics
• Experience in account management, sales or market development roles
• Comfortable working with data and tools such as Salesforce and Power BI
• Willingness to travel internationally (approximately 20-30%)
• Curious, entrepreneurial, energetic, solution mindset and taking ownership

Why you’ll want to join our Vegetable Squad

• Take ownership of a strategic crop with growth opportunities across Europe
• A role where you can make an impact on the strategic objectives by the KWS Vegetables business unit set a key-player
• Work with an ambitious, international team that’s moving fast and thinking ahead
• Access to strong breeding capabilities and continuous innovation
• A visible role where your input truly shapes decisions and results
• Opportunity to influence the future strategic direction of the global Red Beet business and grow your career towards a next step in our organization

About KWS

KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies and employs around 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries. With the tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for more than 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seeds for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflowers. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods and invests a significant amount in research and development.

At KWS, diversity is not just a value; it is an essential part of our success. Breeding resilient crops requires diversity; likewise, our strength comes from the diversity of our teams. Whatever your background or identity is, we invite you to join us.

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