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Isernhagen

• Product management SAATEN-UNION business unit maize• Portfoliomanagement, LCM and product advancement• Development of replacement scenarios and implementation of exit strategies• Variety description, positioning and presentation of new varieties to local product managers, sales reps or customers• Management of European hybrid introduction process, individual product launch and optimization of go-to-market strategies• Analysis of official post registration trials and internal trail network results• Short and midterm business planning: budgeting and forecasting of financial results for business unit maize, return and margin analysis and improvement of performance and portfolio metrics• Seasonal and midterm demand planning for production and purchase, including risk management• Input for European and CIS variety registration strategies • Planning and allocation of trial and demo seed over all countries• Transfer of product knowledge and exchange with breeders, suppliers and subsidiaries • Input and initiatives of international marketing and product launch campaigns • Execution of market and competitor analysis • Involvement of seasonal commercial seed processing• Support of crop and area managers as well as marketing department, lead of local product managers

Hannover Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Coordination and consolidation of seasonal hybrid maize purchase amount for Saaten-Union and DSV• Contract management with seed suppliers and seed producers (price, delivery and payment conditions etc.) and forwarding to sales brands • Coordination and consolidation of a three year rolling demand planning process • Hybrid maize seed production (production planning, financial calculation, implementation of QM, financial and licence calculation)• Margin and return calculation and optimization• Development of online international sales and processing tools • Optimization of logistic and processing processes• Centralized purchase of working funds (e.g. seed treatment, bags…)• Contact person for accountancy, logistic and controlling departments • Support during variety registration process in different European countries • Liquidity, budget and financial planning • Negotiation and organization of European market research reports • Support of international crop and product manager maize for both brands• Internal and external reporting

- Field trial management in a plant breeding company- Planning, execution, documentation and analyzing of field trials- Field trials in the following crops: Winter wheat Hybrid wheat Spring and winter barley Oat, triticale and oilseed rape- Management of different field trial types: R&D and technical trials Demonstration and show plots Multiplication areas Infection trials (Fusarium spp., Rhynchosporium, yellow rust) Registration trials for the Federal Plant Variety Office - Fieldwork (crop protection, fertilizing, seeding and harvesting)- Development of the technical breeding equipment - Development of hybrid wheat production (chemical sterilization of the females)- Human resource management of technical and skilled workers - Work scheduling from 10 pers. (regular) up to 50 pers. (harvest-time)

Production of wheat, barley, oilseed rape, sugar beets and maize on a farm in Germany. Management of: sowing, fertilizing, crop protection and harvesting

Master Of Science (M.Sc.Agr.), Agricultural Business And Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.Agr), Agrarbusiness Und Management