KWS Group

Head of Product Management Germany (m/f/d)

Einbeck

FULL TIME

October 11, 2024

Imagine leading a team at the forefront of agricultural innovation, where your decisions shape the future of farming.

As Head of Product Management (m/f/d) at KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGa A you will guide a talented group of product managers and agroservice specialists, driving the development of cutting-edge tools and services that empower farmers and boost sales.

Beyond managing a comprehensive portfolio, you will spearhead new business opportunities, turning ideas into impactful solutions. If you are passionate about innovation and leadership, this is your chance to make a lasting impact on the future of agriculture. Join us in cultivating success for our customers and our company.

This is a permanent role to be filled full-time. Your place of work is at our HQ in Einbeck or location Wohlde.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Drive the change process to a customer centric organization
  • Lead, empower and develop the team of Product Managers and agroservice specialist to ensure the best possible sales and customer support.
  • Ensure a good portfolio management in all crops (cross crop portfolio steering), as well as technical support in how to optimize the use for the sales organization and customers.
  • Ensure the delivery of content to the marketing department to support the promotion of our KWS products and tools through all channels.
  • Provide regular and tailor-made trainings to ensure technical education of the sales team, same as the customers.
  • Product management functions for all relevant crops (testing, trialing, portfolio steering, registration, content production).
  • Creating standards and synergies maintaining crop-specific knowledge on the one hand and creating a common cross-crop understanding and processes on the other hand
  • Maintain relations and ensure exchange with breeders, as well as international PM, production departments and Global Marketing/Sales Engagement department
  • Maintaining a vast network to external stakeholders such as Universities, institutes, agricultural state bodies and other related industries.
  • Provide tools, services and content, targeted to group of growers

Your Profile:

  • Relevant experience in product management and understanding of the agronomy on German farms
  • Track record in leading a team paired with strong leadership skills
  • Very good communication skills with different target and stakeholder groups, internally and externally
  • Open-minded with an entrepreneurial mindset paired with positive thinking & leading change
  • Excellent command of German and English

Our Offer to you:
  • An exceptionally interesting and varied job in an international environment with the opportunity to contribute innovative ideas
  • Working in an international, highly motivated and dynamic team with flat hierarchies
  • Flexible working hours with the possibility of mobile working (hybrid)
  • As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence, and vision - a culture that is also lived in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly work atmosphere
  • According to our slogan "Make Yourself Grow!" we promote individual professional and personal development
  • As a basis, we offer excellent work equipment (high-quality, ergonomic workstations, several monitors, air conditioning) and sufficient free parking spaces at the location.
  • We also create the appropriate framework conditions: capital-forming benefits, Christmas and vacation pay, childcare allowance, company bicycle
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About KWS
KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.8 billion in the fiscal year 2022/2023. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugar beet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests, and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development.

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