Working alongside our commercial and planning team, help build the overall cropping programmes for Tenderstem® and Bimi® across S Europe and North Africa territory. Advising licensees and growers on planning-based decisions, drawing from localised growing experience to ensuring enough product is programmed to support the demand from local sales channels and exported crop volumes.

What will you do?

- Ensure key members of the team have visibility of up-to-date availability so that surplus volumes can be managed effectively and give timely warnings of likely shortfalls of volumes.
- Develop and support new growers across the regions by giving technical agronomy advice for crop management.
- Help continue to develop our existing reporting system where growers report produces sales and plan their crop programming.
- Have responsibility for the flow of seeds into the grower base for the business, leasing with key internal sales colleagues.
- Continuous improvement of an overall cropping plan and forecasting tool.
- Trialling innovative agronomy ideas to boost crop productivity on farms.

Where will you work?

Home-based or at our station in San Javier (Murcia). Good link to airport for travel.

Do you fit this profile?





- Previous agronomy work experience.
- Technical knowledge and knowledge of cropping systems.
- Crop planning systems.
- Agricultural chemistry and fertilisers.
- Excellent use of excel and other MS office software.
- Good level of English, Spanish and preferably some French.
- Team player.
- Working in a multi-cultural and cross functional environment.
- Able to communicate clearly.
- Ability to push through barriers.
- Able to work in an anticipatory way rather than reactive.
- Able to work autonomously.
- Rigorous.
- Precise.
- Open minded.
- Innovative.
- Personable.
- Methodical.

You will be part of Sakata Vegetables EMEA team, which is part of the SAKATA Group. What makes SAKATA different is that while being a key international player in the seed business, the company has retained a family spirit. It is a people-oriented company where it is easy to communicate at all levels. As a result of its Japanese origins, it is a stable company with an emphasis on long-term culture.

Working at Sakata offers you the opportunity to join a well-established company in the seed industry.

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