Regional Product Development Specialist PPX (VS)

BASF Türk Kimya San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or master degree in agriculture,

• Broad and depth experience agriculture and in the development of varieties (trials),

• English language: fluent,

• Competencies: analytical skills, very organized, good decision making,

• Team player with good communication skills,

• Ability to guide and motivate the trial teams,

• Commercial aptitude,

• Innovative mind,

• Proactiveness.

Job Description

Role:

• Advise the Crop Sales Manager regarding adaptations in the assortment for varieties coming from R&D, but also from seed technology in case of new seed treatments or new seed forms,

• Coordinating and executing the international trial program for one or more crops, in coordination with the Global Product Development Specialist, Crop Sales Maanager and Breeding team and in collaboration with Crop Team members as well as provide technical support to the sales department and customers,

• Interpretation and integration of information and advices coming from crop team members regarding the market needs and the translation of those, when needed, into the trial program,

• Technical support and training to (new) Channel Specialists, Trial Specialists, Screening Specialists,

• Lead the elevation meetings to decide what materials will be advanced to further stages in the variety life cycle.

• Support to the Global Product Development Specialist for the global assortment strategy with feedback from the product development activities and the market developments of the region.

Major Accountabilities:

Trial Program

• Design international trial programs in line with the Marketing&Sales Policy and the Assortment Strategy defined by the Global Product Development Specialist in order to enable the assessment of field performance of experimental varieties in collaboration with Crop Team members.

• Coordinate and execute the trial program in line with the M&S Policy and within Nunhems in order to assess the field performance of/varieties in collaboration with Crop Team members.

• Analyze and process the trial program data in line with the M&S Policy and within Nunhems in order to draw conclusions regarding -variety performance.

• Present and discuss variety conclusions and new seed tech products to Crop Team(s).

• Advise the Crop Sales Manager and Global Product Development Specialist regarding the assortment with respect to one or more crops in line with the M&S Policy and within Nunhems in order to contribute to the success of the crop(s).

• Advise the Crop Sales Manager and Global Product Development Specialist regarding the seed production plan for trial varieties in order to contribute to the qualitative and quantitative sufficient trial seeds.

• In coordination with Global Product Development Specialist initiate and propose variety registration and application for plant breeder rights and naming of promising trial varieties in order to protect the Nunhems crops interest.

• Prepare, coordinate and execute all the procedures in the Elevation varieties (Elevation Process) from screening2 to trial.

• Inform Breeding team on the needs of the market, in order to give priorities to the assortment per market segment and type.

• Make and support of the Growing Concept in special varieties.

• Attend and Support to different complaints that can happen.

• Prepare and Request Seed production (Trial varieties: TR1 and TR2 status) and coordinate the distribution of them.

Support Crop Team

• Provide technical support to Channel Specialists, Regional Sales Managers, Country Crop Leads and customers by means of advise and training regarding one or more crops in line with the M&S Policy in order to ensure a successful variety introduction and development of the Vegetable Seeds market share.