Product Development Excellence Director
il y a 2 semaines
**Main Goal**:
Within the Vilmorin Mikado perimeter, the Product Development Excellence director will deploy, secure, and monitor the development of our genetic to maximize product value. This role will also be responsible for identifying and deploying new tools to accelerate innovation in collaboration with marketing and research. The individual will manage the excellence strategy around product development for tools, processes, and people in collaboration with sales leaders ( unit director, subsidiary manager, Export Sales Managers) by influencing for strengthen knowledge, skills, organization and people development in line with product development excellence.
**Job description**:
Within the framework of the objectives and strategy of the business unit Vilmorin-Mikado:
- Monitor the deployment of product development with continuous process improvement across 12 subsidiaries and the export teams.
- Ensure high-quality trial strategy, methodology and assessment data reliability, focus on accurate data collection and forecasting for reliable trial outcomes
- Secure the training (content/deployment) and onboarding of the product development team, consisting of around 85 people globally through e-learning & special onboarding for PDM and ASM.
- Provide purpose to newcomers and secure the development of product development capabilities.
- Improve tools in close contact with commercial excellence (CRM ), Marketing (DV Plan App + PLM) and research withing Limagrain vegetable seed perimeter
- Align development priorities across the BU with marketing
- Develop and monitor KPIs.
- Participate in the recruitment, objectives, and assessment of the PDM team.
**What we expect of you**:
**Workplace**: The role is based in La Ménitré with frequent worldwide travel.
**Knowledge Required**:
- 5-10 years of international experience in the seed industry.
- Sales or Marketing experience (4 PPs)
- Ideal focus on vegetable seeds with strong people management experience.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business, Ag Science, Agronomy, or another business-related field.
- Good agronomical “know how” in the field of seeds.
- Strong Business acumen.
- Languages: Fluent in English, French, and/or any other language is a plus.
**Professional Abilities**:
- Strong result orientation, execute plans, and provide rigorous and reliable recommendations.
- Global organizational perspective and cooperation with matrix interfaces.
- Customer focus (internal/external).
- Leadership: build high-performing teams based on trust, collaboration, and diversity.
- Business acumen, able to develop and manage budgets
- Develop and empower people.
- Strategic oversight and planning.
- Managerial courage and ability to lead change.
- Sense of priority.
- Ability to navigate in a matrix organization.
**Skills**:
- Collaboration
- Creativity/Innovation
- Customer Focus
- Communication
- Managing for Results
**Your benefits and working environment**:
We offer you an attractive compensation package (including a company car) as well as numerous development opportunities in France and internationally.
**Recruitment process**:
We will study your profile in relation to the needs of the position and the company.
- After a prequalification interview, you will meet your manager.
- Then we will ask you to complete personality inventories and reasoning tests that will serve as a basis for an interview with the Group's Talent Management.
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