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Join Enza Zaden as a Product Specialist Solanaceae
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Are you ready to contribute to the future of Enza Zaden? Enza Zaden is looking for a proactive professional who can represent and promote a positive image of our values.

Why join Enza Zaden as a Product Specialist?

As a Product Specialist, you’ll help ensure that people around the world have access to a wide variety of healthy vegetables. We offer a role where you’ll connect with both local and global teams.

• You are goal-oriented, a team player, organized, and results-driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit that allows you to identify important needs and situations in your work—such as market trends, plant diseases, or unusual trial results—which you’ll be expected to report immediately.

Your Role as a Product Specialist

You will be responsible for setting up, evaluating, and reporting on trials for various assigned crops—Pepper and Tomato—working closely with our breeding departments.

• Create trial plans for new varieties.
• Organize trials in collaboration with the breeding and sales teams.
• Manage, collect, and evaluate trial data using established formats and systems (such as Trial Data).
• Follow phytosanitary protocols at third-party facilities to ensure trial quality and compliance.
• Analyze, interpret, and report findings and recommendations from R&D trials to the R&D and Sales teams.
• Identify promising experimental varieties across different regions in the Southeast of the USA.
• Contribute to the decision-making process for variety selections by providing technical performance data (e.g., yield), descriptions, trial locations, and general crop recommendations.
• Work regularly under pressure and in challenging weather conditions (high/low temperatures).
• Perform computer-based tasks on a regular basis.
• Frequent travel is required within your assigned region, primarily covering the states of Georgia and Florida.

What You Bring As Our Future Colleague

• A bachelor’s degree in Horticulture or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in the agricultural or seed industry.
• Strong analytical abilities paired with a collaborative mindset.
• Solid technical expertise in crop management.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, with a focus on Excel.
• A flexible approach and a positive attitude toward change.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Willingness to travel frequently within the region.
• The ability to perform under pressure, given the dynamic nature of the role.

What you can expect from us

The following information is provided in good faith as a general description of the starting pay range and benefits for the position posted. The compensation offered to the successful candidate depends on experience, skills, education, work location, and other objective job-related factors.

Starting salary pay range: $75,000 - $88,000

We offer an attractive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and disability insurance coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid personal time off
• Paid volunteer time off
• Monthly fitness reimbursement
• A free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Enza Zaden as an employer

With more than 2,800 passionate team members across the world, we're on a daily mission to develop the finest vegetable varieties. Our goal? To deliver seeds with that special something: better taste, better yields, and better resistance.

Enza Zaden is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.