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 busine