Commercial Managing Director Rijk Zwaan Australia

Your job at Rijk Zwaan

The cluster Oceania focuses on both Australia and New Zealand. The activities include breeding support, production, product development, marketing, and sales. The company is led by a board of three Managing Directors who are jointly responsible for the entire operation and the 70 people working in Australia. Each Managing Director has his or her own attention fields. As Commercial Managing Director Rijk Zwaan Australia, you’ll be responsible for sales and marketing, including marketing communication, client services, supply chain, and the warehouse. This group consists of 24 colleagues. With support from the Rijk Zwaan head office and globally operating crop teams, you will develop business strategies and tactics to grasp the opportunities in the dynamic vegetable seed market in Oceania and hence will ensure sustainable growth for the company.

In Addition, You Will Be Responsible For

• Making a five-year development plan, including sales targets, investments, and cost development, together with your co-Managing Directors on a yearly basis.
• Jointly leading the whole company with two other managing directors.
• Reporting to the Rijk Zwaan board based in The Netherlands.

As Managing Director, we expect you to have experience in the agricultural sector and a broad interest in all aspects of managing a company including fostering the unique Rijk Zwaan company culture, managing financial risks, and legal compliance. You have an open personality, good communication skills, you are trustworthy and open to receive feedback, and you can build bridges between people. We are looking for a hands-on, inspirational leader, someone who is both people- and result-oriented. We are seeking a good leader and organiser with an international outlook and global mindset, someone with an active and practical approach, positive thinking and attitude, oriented towards persevering and problem solving.

In addition, we can find the following on your resume:

• An academic degree preferably in the agricultural area.
• More than five to ten years managerial experience in an international environment.
• Good understanding of agriculture, within the seed industry would be a bonus.
• Strategic insights for commercial and company development.
• A people-oriented management style and high teamwork abilities.

Besides a growing international work environment, we are happy to offer you:

• A competitive market-based salary and good additional benefits.
• A permanent contract from the start.
• Excellent training opportunities through our Rijk Zwaan Academy and specific management training courses.
• An entrepreneurial/innovative and stimulating work environment.
• A good work/life balance.

Rijk Zwaan is an international family company with a people-oriented culture. Rijk Zwaan is at the beginning of the food chain. We develop fruit and vegetable varieties and sell the seeds to growers and other chain partners all over the world. We thus make an important contribution to the world food supply. You are ideally based in Victoria with close access to Daylesford and our Bacchus Marsh site and will be travelling regularly with the sales team members who are based in the major growing areas.

Interested?

Let’s work together for the vegetables of tomorrow!

Insight Group Australia is doing the search for this position and Rohan Carr is the contact person. You can address your written application to rohancarr@insightgroup.com.au. An assessment and screening will be a part of the procedure.