Are you a people-orientated manager who likes to steer our growing organization in the USA together with the other two Managing Directors? If so, apply for this full-time vacancy for Manager Director Finance at our office in Salinas, California, USA. The vacancy for a Manager Director Finance at Rijk Zwaan Rijk Zwaan USA has a management team consisting of 3 people (one position is vacant). As a team, you will guide our subsidiary in, among other things, strategy, planning, sales, investments and personnel. One director focuses on greenhouse crops, business development en chain activities. The other director focuses on outdoor crops. Together you are responsible for the whole operation of the subsidiary.
Within this role you are responsible for the direct management and steering of our growing organization. Your main responsibility will focus on monitoring and controlling all financial and administrative issues. You analyze business performance and give insight in actual results. You will manage HR activities, like payroll administration and reviewing HR procedures are part of your responsibility. Legal activities and ICT are also part of the job. You have an important people-orientated role in assuring a well-functioning team. As a part of this team you will be required to travel countrywide and internationally, in addition to managing the daily business in the office.
We are seeking a Managing Director Finance with:
- a Master’s degree, preferably in the area of Business Economics and Management Studies
- a broad and relevant work experience in an international environment
- a strong affinity with agriculture
Furthermore you have good analytical skills and are able to communicate well. You have a people-oriented management style and like to coach. You are hands on and like to cooperate and to consult with colleagues for an optimal result. Your management and accounting skills are well developed. You feel comfortable to operate as an entrepreneur within our organization. The dynamic market conditions demand a creative attitude and working method.
Interested?
You can address your application to Madelon Vos (Advisor Human Resources) and apply preferably via our website www.rijkzwaan.com by clicking HERE, or by e-mail to work@rijkzwaan.nl
We will consider your application carefully, which may take some time.
You will hear from us as soon as possible.
Rijk Zwaan: your new employer?
Rijk Zwaan USA produces, develops and sells Rijk Zwaan vegetable seed in the United States and Canada. Incorporated in 2000, Rijk Zwaan USA has over 20 employees working hard to get the best genetics to the market. Traditionally strong in spinach, lettuce, melons and brassica crops, Rijk Zwaan USA is diversifying into new developing markets such as pickling cucumber, greenhouse vegetables, and various other varieties specially designed with the consumer in mind.
Rijk Zwaan is an international family company with a people-oriented culture. Rijk Zwaan is right at the start of the food chain. We develop vegetable varieties and sell the seeds produced from them globally. We have a long-term focus, which is why we offer our employees a permanent contract as soon as they join us. From our strategic position we contribute to the health and well-being of people all over the world. Everything we do is about growth. The growth of natural products that we export around the world. The growth of our company, which currently employs over 2,500 people in more than 30 countries. And above all the growth of our people: we give you every opportunity to use your own initiative and achieve your full potential. Working with colleagues to produce the best and tastiest vegetables. Reinforcing, helping and inspiring one another. That’s how we want to continuously work together towards a healthy future.