Limagrain Vegetables Seeds is the leader of the global leader of the Vegetable seed business with its three business units: Hazera, HM. Clause and Vilmorin Mikado with a strong global R&D community of 1150 R&D employees, 130 breeding programs and launching over 200 new varieties per year.

• Define medium and long-term R&D strategy and objectives of the Global Research and Development Division as chair of LVS Research Committee (RC) for bringing the company to the top position from product portfolio and technology while protecting the company's intellectual property.
• Assuring the R&D division is in the front of scientific knowhow, creating freedom to operate and generate competitive technological position for the company and the Limagrain Vegetable Seed division. Validates and coordinates research activities within the organization, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, while keeping the right balance between internal programs and outsourcing
• Lead the Research Committee team. Secure full collaboration and alignment between BU R&Ds and Trait and Technology teams and with other departments to deliver a competitive of new varieties
• Establish objectives, procedures, and tools necessary to create a strong base of intellectual property covering germplasm, research, and breeding processes
• Drive continuous innovation by staying abreast of industry trends, technological advancements, and market demands.
• Manage the implementation of programs, ensuring the best path is being chosen and interfacing with production and marketing functions utilizing a "speed to market" approach.
• Coordinate research collaborations with other internal teams and external partners, maintaining good contacts with national and international centers, universities, and third-party vendors or subcontractors.
• Member of the LVS executive committee
• Carry out these activities in compliance with country-specific legislation where operations are needed, and in accordance with the company's values related to environmental sustainability, employee well-being, CSR, and Corporate
• Internal working relations: all company divisions.
• External working relations: research institutions, universities, R&D companies

Education:

PhD in Agronomics and/or Plant Science, Biological Science.
15 years with gradual roles in R&D management, preferably in agribusiness in the vegetable seed sector of the industry with at least 3 years’ experience in equivalent role

Required knowledge and skills:

• Experience managing R&D teams cross cultures and disciplines.
• Expanded knowledge of genetics, biotechnology, pathology, molecular analysis, genetics, and new tools and technologies.
• Extended knowledge of logical research in plant breeding, knowledge of the vegetable seed sector, and understanding of its international markets evolution and demands.
• Personal capabilities: An ideal candidate would be committed to results, a person who can combine long & short-term perspective.
• Should have high capability of interpersonal interactions with people from different cultures and background. Managerial and leadership capabilities is a must with ability to collaborate within  R&D and Strategic and with Marketing teams.  

Competencies:

Strategic Planning and Analysis: Generates options to achieve a long-range goal or vision, articulates a view of the future in a way that builds commitment within the organization, develops decisions considering relevant factors and the potential impact on the business, creates specific plans to close current gaps with the ability to balance overall strategic concerns and focus on all regions, able to plan actions and analyze results

Innovation: Ability to create an environment that encourages creative ideas to emerge amongst the team, values & promotes innovation, allows trial & error environment, gives resources, and supports and actively sponsors promising innovative projects.
Leadership/management: Builds high performing teams based on trust, collaboration, and diversity. Brings out the best in people and enables individuals to stretch their capabilities. Inspires others' ways of behaving in all circumstances. Master core HR processes.

Change Management: Capability to adapt the organizational structure in a fast-evolving environment. Recognizes the need for change in the organization and ability to lead teams positively through the changes.

Interpersonal Skills / Multicultural adaptability: Possession of strong leadership and communication skills. Ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with various positions within the organization who work in breeding, labs, sales and development, agronomic production, inventory management, quality control, plant management, communications, product management, and technical data departments. Generates diversity by actively integrating team members of different backgrounds and cultures. Ability to work in an environment of various cultural differences across three different geographical regions --EMEA, AMPA and ASIA. Ability to deal with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.

Business & Financial Acumen

Decision Making

Once your application has been submitted, an acknowledgement of receipt will confirm its receipt.

We will study your profile in relation to the needs of the position and the company.

If your application is selected, the following steps are part of our process:

After a prequalification interview, 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.

You will then meet Remi, your manager.

Groupe Limagrain is an employer that respects diversity and encourages applications from all backgrounds.