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    Commercial Managing Director Rijk Zwaan Australia - Victoria - The Insight Group

    The Insight Group
    The Insight Group Victoria

    2 weeks ago

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    About Rijk Zwaan

    Rijk Zwaan is an international family company with a people-oriented culture.

    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.

    Job Description

    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.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Develop business strategies and tactics to grasp opportunities in the dynamic vegetable seed market in Oceania.
    • 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.

    Your Contribution:

    • A broad interest in all aspects of managing a company, including fostering the unique Rijk Zwaan company culture, managing financial risks, and legal compliance.
    • An open personality, good communication skills, you are trustworthy and open to receiving feedback, and you can build bridges between people.
    • A hands-on, inspirational leader, someone who is both people- and result-oriented.
    • 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.

    Requirements

    We are looking for a candidate with:

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

    What We Offer

    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.

    Location

    Rijk Zwaan is 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.


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