PRODUCT MANAGER Bean, Pea and Sweet Corn H/F

PRODUCT MANAGER Bean, Pea and Sweet Corn H/F

Location: La Ménitré (approximately 30 km from Angers or Saumur)

Contract type: Permanent

Function

As a global Seed Company, Vilmorin Mikado has a strong presence across the five continents and offers a wide and original high-quality range to all professionals of the vegetable chain. Vilmorin‑Mikado is specialized in the creation, production and marketing of vegetable and tree seeds and is entirely dedicated to agricultural professionals.

Job description

Crop Strategy

• Orient research programs: recommend crop strategies and ensure execution across the Business Unit (ambition and market share targets; direction for marketing, research, seed tech and development; action plans, follow‑up and corrective actions).
• Define strategic markets and product profile.
• Animate Development and Sales teams to deliver the plan and support business activation.
• Ensure growth and profitability of the crops through market share increase and new product launches.

Market intelligence

• Maintain a deep and updated knowledge of the markets on your perimeter and define future trends and requests (agronomy, customers, consumers).
• Animate the Development community on Market intelligence, including active benchmarking.

Lifecycle and Products’ management

• Collaborate with other divisions to manage products' life cycle and product range worldwide, aiming for turnover and margin growth, with support from Production, Supply and Development departments.
• Ensure successful launches of new varieties; coordinate and follow up development plans for new products with Breeders, the Supply and Development teams.
• Recommend global positioning of varieties (targeted markets, rock‑bottom price per area, development targets in terms of countries and customers).
• Define strategic varieties and co‑build and validate launching plans for new strategic products.
• Supervise and challenge sales business plans and forecasts with leadership on Sales & Operations process; maintain proactivity on stock management and actively participate in production plans and excess management recommendation and follow‑up.
• Be accountable for markets’ requirements in terms of quality and ensure their respect through Quality Chart.

Business outlooks

• Be accountable for the overall profitability of the crops and drive strategy with a financial approach by monitoring costs, margin and inventory level through different KPIs.
• Support Sales teams with appropriate recommendations in terms of Go‑to‑market approaches, added‑value pricing approaches, new concepts, commercial and technical information.

Innovation

• Drive growth through innovation by developing new concepts and products in collaboration with Breeders and local Development & Sales teams.

Products’ Promotion

• Define, plan and control implementation of the products’ promotional strategy for the crops, in consistency with the overall crop’s strategic plan.

What we expect of you

The candidate must have a Master degree in Agriculture or in Business. Acting frequently as a project leader, the person should have strong cross‑functional leadership, be a change agent, know how to motivate a team and have a strategic vision; and be ready to travel regularly (20% of the time). A good knowledge of the agribusiness and prior experience in strategic marketing is a significant plus. Minimum 5 years of experience is required.

• Languages: Fluent in French and English (mandatory).

Benefits and working environment

• Salary to be determined based on profile, 13th month bonus paid monthly.
• Cadre status with daily package (211 days/year) with 5 weeks of paid vacation + 14–19 paid days‑off yearly.
• Profit‑sharing and participation bonus, performance bonus (up to 1 extra month).
• Multiple benefits: family health insurance, discounted company restaurant, employee benefits (holiday vouchers, gift vouchers, discounted tickets, etc.), and free on‑site activities (library, boardgames, fitness classes...)
• Finally, by joining Vilmorin‑Mikado you will be integrated into a historic seed company, expert within the Limagrain cooperative group, where the diversity of positions allows growth and long‑term commitment.