Marketing & Sales
Bachelor
Are you a proactive collaborator with Clients management and Product development background? Do you enjoy transferring cultivated technology to growers, and creating new market for Rijk Zwaan products by applying marketing strategy? Apply now!
How does your job as Product Development Specialist at Rijk Zwaan Vietnam in Lam Dong look like?
As Product Development Specialist you are part of our sales and product development team, with specific responsibility for building relationships with distributors, dealers, nurseries, key growers... Moreover, you fulfil an essential role in carrying out market research, implementing marketing activities, following complex market dynamics and developments, and initiating new
business developments together and in accordance with our Crop Specialist, Client Managers, ...
You share knowledge about market developments, product knowledge... and work closely together with the Vietnamese R&D team, Marketing team and Product Development team. Finally, you will become responsible for several clients in the specific region. This entails the following:
Developing trustworthy relationships with distributors/ dealers/clients
Participate in product development activities and variety selection for your regional market.
Carry out and participate in promotional and marketing activities
Pro-actively contribute to and communicate about the development of the digital services within the subsidiary
Take care of communication with relevant stakeholders in your regional market.
Your contribution.
You are a strong communicator with a high level of motivation and enthusiasm. As a proactive collaborator you are resourceful, and you support Distributors/ Dealers / Clients in creating/developing new market, new products, etc. With your commercial insight, social skills and team mentality you can establish and strongly maintain long-term relationships in the vegetables market in Vietnam.
Given the nature of this position, you are open to travel nationally, and you also speak English fluently. In addition, we can find the following on your resume:
A completed bachelor or master degree, in the field of Agriculture and/or Business
At least 2-4 years of relevant working experience
Knowledge of and experience with commercial (producer/buyer) dynamics
Know-how of sales techniques and product development, preferably knowledge of and experience with vegetable seed commercial/ product development
Good negotiation skill, Customer service oriented, Integrity
What can you expect from us?
As Product Development Specialist you will be part of the team of Rijk Zwaan Vietnam. The team consists of Product Development Specialist, Marketing, R&D colleagues who are working together to develop new varieties for our customers. We have our own Trial Station in Da Lat and our office in HCMC.
The Product Development
Specialist will play an important role in developing relationships, organizing consumer market testing and initiating new business developments to contribute in sustaining and growing our business to achieve long-term success in Vietnam. Besides a dynamic environment in which you are exposed to new market and product developments as well as international expertise through which you can contribute to food safety and the world food supply, we are happy to offer you:
A permanent contract for 40 hours a week
Market -based salary based on job level and experience
Various training opportunities through our Rijk Zwaan Academy
A good work/life balance
Rijk Zwaan: your new employer?
Rijk Zwaan Vietnam Ltd. is a subsidiary of Rijk Zwaan Group, established in 2017 in Vietnam, with the goal of developing high-quality vegetable varieties, sharing innovations in seed production, high-tech vegetables growing techniques to farmers, connecting growers with consumers through a sustainable value chain, bringing higher profits to farmers. With more than 10 years of operation in Vietnam, the Rijk Zwaan seed brand grown in greenhouses has been affirmed.
Along with the development and supply of quality vegetable varieties for production, Rijk Zwaan Vietnam also strives to develop a team with increasingly high levels of expertise to accompany and support customers on farming techniques, building product brands, connecting partners in the supply chain. We believe that with a high quality and increasingly diverse set of varieties along with a professional and enthusiastic team, Rijk Zwaan Vietnam will contribute to improving the vegetable growing industry in Vietnam day by day, especially indoor cultivation.