Core purpose of position:

• Manage Production of seeds according to Business Unit (BU) planning demands; at quantity & quality requested; provide on time delivery and purchase with economical cost.
• Steer production strategy in line with Limagrain Vegetable Seeds (LVS) and BU strategy.
• Build up production capabilities and its professional excellence, according to production strategy.
• Lead world-wide commercial seed production activity via growers network, professional vendors and via LVS sister companies.
• Lead production activities for R&D, pre-commercial and stock seeds in house at the NPI facilities (Brurim IL and Ethiopia in the future).
• Lead production BU internal interfaces and foster collaboration with the supply chain operating activities: Demand-Supply Planning, Logistics (CS), Processing, QC, Breeding, etc.
• Contribute to Limagrain Vegetable Seeds production forum and build collaboration with sister companies.

Position & Hierarchy:

• Member of the BU Management Team, reporting to the Deputy CEO.
• Member of the LVS production forum.
• Member of Limagrain Executives forum (Dome 2000) Professional responsibilities:
• Participate in seasonal production planning meetings; make sure that plan match budget target & capabilities.
• Lead & steer the BU seed production program (yearly & seasonal for the entire company portfolio) as planned by crop supply teams. Supervise and approve the production plan of the department managers.
• Build up the production yearly work plan; fine tune & approve the departments goals/challenges/expected outputs.
• Supervise and monitor the overall production activities; leading a team of managers towards satisfactory performance while conducting simultaneous ongoing control of critical activities/stages and steer troubleshoot efforts whenever needed along seed production process.
• Lead and supervise production internal & external interfaces.
• Direct manager of production plant pathology & seed production research.
• In charge of the division budget; monitor and control the production OPEX, CAPEX & Staff budget execution; BU seed purchase and payment to vendors.
• Set guidelines for price & terms when contacting seed suppliers. (vendors); supervise and support team mangers negotiating successfully the contracts with core vendors/growers.
• Supervise production QA; own major NC’s and set corrective measures to improve performance; Steering yearly/seasonal evaluation meetings internally (production management team) and externally (core suppliers = growers or seed production companies).

Managerial responsibilities:

• Production Department Managers (Direct reports - 7 persons)
• Production Content Specialists (Direct reports - 2 persons).
• Production division employees (85 FTE’s in total).
• Seed Purchase Budget of 30-35 M€ a year.
• Production Expenses Budget of 10-15M€ a year.

Personal Capabilities:

• A leader – capable to lead his team in a complex internal and external business environment.
• A manager – capable to manage team of managers and content specialists (diverse personalities & domains).
• A professional – knowledge & experience in agriculture; especially in seed industry / seed production.
• Has past experience in managing agricultural oriented business (seed production is an advantage).
• Has Ability to plan and control complex operation activity; analyze data; cooperative; communicative; capable and willing to work intensively during peak time (including frequent traveling abroad).
• Has experience in leading multi-national teams and in remote management
• Has know-how of using software such as Microsoft office; ERP (JDE and/or Oracle is an advantage); BI (QlickView is an advantage).
• Languages: Hebrew and/or Dutch – mother tongue; English – very well; French and/or Spanish is an advantage.

Education:

• B.Sc. degree in agronomy or life sciences;
• M.Sc. and/or PhD. in life sciences and/or business administration is an advantage.

Languages:

• English: Fluent
• Dutch and/or Hebrew (Advantage)

Interested?

If you are enthusiastic to join a growing organization, please send us as soon as possible a letter of motivation and a detailed resume, preferably by e-mail or through the form on our website www.hazera.nl or www.hazera.com.
Or send an e-mail: webjobs@hazera.com attn. Mrs. Sylvia Versteeg, HR Manager NL.