Crop Specialist: Tomatoes

2 days ago

Leamington, Canada Rijk Zwaan Full time

Your job at Rijk Zwaan

As Crop Specialist: Tomatoes you fulfill an essential role in the strategic product management, technical support, commercial introduction, and coordination of greenhouse tomato activities in North America.

Additionally, you are responsible for:

- Providing feedback on Tomato Strategy to Breeders, Crop Coordinators, and Crop Teams.
- Developing and sustaining strong, ethical, and personable relationships with key customers; addressing needs and establishing effective and innovative solutions for our clients.
- Collaborating with Crop Specialists and Crop Teams with follow-up and account management activities.
- Providing technical support to growers by clearly understanding their needs.
- Identifying and developing new opportunities by leading the local planning, assessment of trials, and collaboration on decisions for greenhouse tomatoes.

Your contribution:
As a Crop Specialist you are dedicated to advancing our tomato crop portfolio and to maintaining the ethics of the company. You take the initiative easily and you have a commercial and client-focused approach.

As a Crop Specialist, you can think strategically and have good analytical skills. Team-player with persuasive communication skills, an independent self-starter with the ability to set your own goals and agenda, and to manage your own progress towards those goals in a structured way. You are enthusiastic about horticulture and keep track of the latest developments in the horticultural industry.
- A completed Ag-business degree, in the field of AgriBusiness or AgriScience.
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience. Experience within the vegetable seed business is highly preferred
- Demonstrated track record of experience in proactively assessing, clarifying, and validating crop & customer needs on an ongoing basis.
- A collaborative nature with both internal and external stakeholders to include communicating across diverse cultures and inspiring trust at all levels.

What can you expect from us?

You will join the team in the new role. This means that you will have a chance to use your creativity and innovation.

Furthermore, we are happy to offer you:

- A permanent contract from the start.
- Good salary based on job level and experience.
- Various training opportunities through our Rijk Zwaan Academy.
- A good work and life balance.
- An entrepreneurial / innovative work environment with constantly new challenges.
- A team with motivated colleagues.
- Excellent benefits: Vision, Dental, Orthodontics and Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Health Care Spending Account, family fitness benefit, and pension matching.

Where will you be working?

Rijk Zwaan is an international family-owned company with a people-oriented culture. Rijk Zwaan is at the beginning of the food chain. We develop vegetable and fruit varieties and sell the seeds to growers and other chain partners all over the world. We make an important contribution to the world food supply.
- Rijk Zwaan Canada is located in Leamington Ontario; however, there will be travel to other provinces in Canada, USA and occasional travel to Europe required.

Interested?

Let us work together for the vegetables of tomorrow

An assessment will be part of the procedure.

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