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POSITION:
Global
Product Manager - Leafy Vegetables
Job location: St. Louis, Missouri
Monsanto, an Ag industry
leader creating scientific breakthroughs around the world, is
seeking highly motivated GLOBAL PRODUCT MANAGER (Leafy
Vegetables) who will manage the global leafy vegetables seed
business of Seminis, a
branch of Monsanto.
In this role the candidate will develop and implement a rolling
five year comprehensive global leafy vegetables business
strategy designed to increase market share and value return and
create and implement action plan to achieve objectives and drive
completion. The Global Product Manager will lead the Global Crop
team for leafy vegetables, oversee the annual long range
planning process, and track key financial crop metrics on a
monthly basis as well as annual budgets.
Additionally the candidate will provide strategic and tactical
support to regional product managers (RPM's) and crop teams in
the Americas, EMEA and Asia, provide global product planning
coordination (Life Cycle Management) for assigned crop(s) across
brands and regions, and manage product life cycle, regional
product management leads and marketing and sales. Will serve as
the primary contact with supply management to coordinate
development of annual crop plans, production priorities, cost of
goods management, seed quality direction and obsolescence
control. In this role the candidate will also coordinate product
availability with customer service, develop/maintain
spreadsheets with product pricing which enables the financial
support staff and will supervise the crop product planning
process.
The successful candidate will posses a B.S. in agriculture,
agronomy, business, marketing or related field and 7-10 years
experience in sales/marketing/agronomy/product management or
related field. Solid commercial product knowledge and a strong
understanding of product development and supply management
processes is required. The ability to work collaboratively and
achieve business results across multi-disciplinary teams and
matrix organization and excellent communication within a diverse
organization is essential. Some domestic and international
travel is required.
Please visit our Career website at
www.monsanto.com for a
detailed position description overview of this exciting
position.
To apply online please select:
req. number #mons-00007401.
Monsanto is an equal opportunity
employer.
We value diversity.
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