At Corteva Agriscience™, with over 21,000 team members from 130 countries, innovating in 140 world class R&D facilities we grow what matters by playing a critical role in feeding the world and enabling farmers to produce crops in ways that are sustainable for their families, their land, and the broader environment.

We’re looking for a Marketing Manager Seed Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Main purpose of the job:

The Marketing Manager for Seed oversees the Seed portfolio, providing leadership and strategic direction to category marketing managers and the agronomy department.

The Marketing Manager reports to the Country Leader.

The Marketing Manager will focus on:

• Growing sales in line with given country sales targets, driving profitability, market share and customer satisfaction through planning and implementing the country marketing priorities for seed aligned with global and regional strategy
• Supporting commercial and customer needs by coordinating the national seed marketing strategy including product positioning, pricing, brand segmentation
• Taking accountability for product lifecycle management and all aspects of the marketing mix activities aligned with cross functional initiatives and development of new crop solutions incl. digital services

Major Tasks of the position:

• Leads the portfolio strategy for Seed and the marketing mix
• Accountable for relevant tasks like demand planning, product positioning, sales programs, services and pricing
• Identifies new business opportunities and product concepts based upon unmet market needs and for seed R&D/breeding decisions
• Monitors and analyses competitor products, positioning, trends and customer needs and provides short to long-term planning assumptions
• Accountable for the Seed P&L
• Coordinates with Category Marketing Managers and Marketing Communication Manager advertising plan and promotion activities and within set budget
• Oversees and strategically guides together with the Agronomy manager the activities of the agronomy team
• Builds the organizational competencies through ensuring development of product and crop training modules
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams (notably sales, marketing communications, R&D plant breeding, commercial effectiveness, seed production and supply, customer service) to align marketing efforts with overall business goals
• Oversees the creation and execution of integrated marketing campaigns across various channels (incl. digital, traditional marketing, social media…)
• Analyzes campaign performance metrics and adjusts strategies accordingly to optimize results

Skills, Experience, Qualifications & Competencies

• Degree in Agricultural Sciences with more than ten years of business experience working in the seed industry and in a country environment
• Excellent knowledge of the German seed market and its customers and products
• Profound expertise in product management and strategic marketing
• Deep knowledge of especially the crops corn and oilseed rape
• Strong strategic, innovative and customer mindset as well as ability to envision future market trends and opportunities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Experience in team leadership and people management
• Full fluency in both German and English

Location: Munich

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