Agronomist: Brassicas

Working alongside our commercial and planning team, help build the overall cropping programmes for Tenderstem® and Bimi® across S Europe and North Africa territory. Advising licensees and growers on planning-based decisions, drawing from localised growing experience to ensuring enough product is programmed to support the demand from local sales channels and exported crop volumes.

• Ensure key members of the team have visibility of up-to-date availability so that surplus volumes can be managed effectively and give timely warnings of likely shortfalls of volumes.
• Develop and support new growers across the regions by giving technical agronomy advice for crop management.
• Help continue to develop our existing reporting system where growers report produces sales and plan their crop programming.
• Have responsibility for the flow of seeds into the grower base for the business, leasing with key internal sales colleagues.
• Continuous improvement of an overall cropping plan and forecasting tool.
• Trialling innovative agronomy ideas to boost crop productivity on farms.

Home-based or at our station in San Javier (Murcia). Good link to airport for travel.

• Previous agronomy work experience.
• Technical knowledge and knowledge of cropping systems.
• Crop planning systems.
• Agricultural chemistry and fertilisers.
• Excellent use of excel and other MS office software.
• Good level of English, Spanish and preferably some French.
• Team player.
• Working in a multi-cultural and cross functional environment.
• Able to communicate clearly.
• Ability to push through barriers.
• Able to work in an anticipatory way rather than reactive.
• Able to work autonomously.
• Rigorous.
• Precise.
• Open minded.
• Innovative.
• Personable.
• Methodical.

You will be part of Sakata Vegetables EMEA team, which is part of the SAKATA Group. What makes SAKATA different is that while being a key international player in the seed business, the company has retained a family spirit. It is a people-oriented company where it is easy to communicate at all levels. As a result of its Japanese origins, it is a stable company with an emphasis on long-term culture.

Working at Sakata offers you the opportunity to join a well-established company in the seed industry.