Product Manager -Tech

Product Manager, High-Tech Tomatoes | Cucumbers | Peppers Remote Home Office, Ontario, Canada | Leamington/Kingsville Area Preferred

Make a difference as Product Manager, High-Tech At Enza Zaden, we're passionate about developing innovative vegetable varieties that help growers succeed.

As our Product Manager, High-Tech, you will play an important role in maximizing the potential of our product portfolio by connecting market needs, customer insights, and product strategy across the region.

In this role, you will help drive market share and gross margin by optimizing variety positioning, supporting the introduction and advancement of new varieties, and translating global crop strategies into regional market plans.

You will work closely with Portfolio Management, Sales, Product Development, Marketing, and Breeding to ensure our product portfolio responds to evolving customer and market needs.

• Maximize market share and gross margin by optimizing variety positioning, analyzing regional sales and forecasts, and aligning the regional product assortment with Sales and Portfolio Management;
• Co-create strategic market and crop segment plans and translate them into tactical and operational plans, incorporating customer needs, key product traits, and relevant market insights;
• Provide market and product insights to Breeding and Product Development to help shape product concepts, product‑market combinations, and the future portfolio;
• Support customer plans by providing technical product expertise and maintaining close relationships with key customers and industry stakeholders;
• Lead proposals for variety advancement through the relevant product advancement stages and coordinate seed allocation decisions for new introductions and existing varieties in alignment with Global Portfolio Management;
• Partner across Sales, Portfolio Management, Product Development, and Marketing to align product and customer strategies and strengthen Enza Zaden's competitive position throughout the region.

You are an analytical and collaborative agricultural professional who understands how products, markets, and customer needs come together. You are comfortable turning market information and sales data into actionable product strategies and enjoy working across functions to move ideas from strategy into execution. You bring strong communication skills and agricultural knowledge and are comfortable building relationships with customers and colleagues across different functions and locations.

You can balance strategic thinking with hands‑on execution and use market, customer, and product insights to support sound business decisions.

In addition, you have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent higher professional education in Agriculture, Horticulture, Plant Science, Business, or a related field;
• 8+ years of relevant experience in agriculture, horticulture, product management, product development, or a related field;
• Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers
• Strong agricultural knowledge and understanding of agricultural markets and customers;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales, forecast, market, and product information;
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship‑building skills;
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently within Canada, USA, Mexico and the Netherlands;
• Must be eligible for coverage under the company’s auto insurance policy.

Enza Zaden is an international family‑owned company that has been developing innovative vegetable varieties since 1938. Together with more than 3,300 colleagues worldwide, we work on vegetable seeds with better flavor, higher yield, and strong resistances. We do this from our mission: “Breeding to feed…