As Senior Manager, Agribusiness EMEA, you will lead the development and execution of the EMEA corn strategy, including procurement, specialty seed development, and sustainable agronomy practices. You will collaborate with commercial and procurement teams to optimize corn planting and manage commercial agreements. In addition, you will drive sustainability initiatives and co-product commercialization, while monitoring regulatory changes and building industry relationships.

Core Responsibilities:

Corn Strategy – own the EMEA corn strategy and develop the five-year strategic plan with critical milestones enabling a sustainable competitive advantage for corn and specialty hybrids. Establish effective resources, business processes, and infrastructure to support the development and execution of the strategy, planning and managing within budgets, continuously explore ways to improve service, quality, and costs.

Corn Procurement & Management – contracting and procurement of all direct purchases of corn for the EMEA region (excluding tollers and Pakistan), managing commercial agreements for seed production and research. Lead the specialty seed production and supply for EMEA, identifying and developing savings and synergies for corn management across the EMEA operations. Close collaboration with the commercial and procurement teams to ensure optimum quantities of corn planting for our European plants

Specialty Seed Development – in close collaboration with the plant science team initiate a gene editing program in EMEA for waxy corn, and facilitate natural hybrid developments and yield improvements, working closely with regulatory authorities to shape rather than react to new developments.

Sustainable Agronomy – applying data and learning experience to assess and develop new growing regions and suppliers, lead the EMEA agronomists team to enable best in class growing conditions for specialty corn and improve the livelihoods of farmers, meeting sustainability practices while reducing the premiums through better agronomics and risk management. Continue to drive sustainability agenda (FSA/SAI) and develop initiatives for regenerative agriculture.

Co-product Commercialization – Connect directly with customers to further valorize co-products/animal nutrition, capturing value through premium pricing. Develop a pet food strategy and propose capital investments/improvements for upgrading co-products output to pet food standards where applicable.

Regulatory – monitor the external environment and regulatory changes; build relationships with partners, industry experts, government authorities and key opinion leaders to remain the leader in specialty corn for the food industry.

Qualified candidates will have:

Mandatory requirements:

Management degree (preferably in business, economics, or agriculture).

Min 5 years’ experience in Agribusiness (e.g. seed production/commercialization, agricultural commodity trading or origination with a country merchant or cooperative).

Ideally min. 5 years of experience in a customer interfacing role and ability to value sell, alternatively similar experience in purchasing roles or a combination. ​

Experience developing strategies and plans that are responsive to the long-term needs of specialty corn and understanding the strategic implications of decisions

Demonstrated negotiating, networking and influencing skills – comfortable and effective at communicating with multiple stakeholders at al levels of the organisation

English and French fluency, both written and spoken, German advantageous

Required behaviors and skills:

Growth Mindset – customer centric, inspires innovation, and relentless in overcoming obstacles to pioneer our agricultural program in EMEA

Building Trusted Partnerships – cultivates and maintains partnerships across regions and functions, helping teams successfully navigate competing priorities.

Delivering Strategy – translate strategies into actionable business plans and actions by using market and functional knowledge. Ability to think strategically and translate vision and strategy into tangible business plans and actions

Passionately Drives for Results – proactively engages the right resources from across the organization in setting challenging goals and delivering results

Encouraging Personal Growth – effectively leads people, providing clear direction, recognition, and positive feed-forward

Relocation available: Yes

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