Job Description
Posting Start Date:  8/27/26
Offer ID:  2558
Unit:  HM Clause
Job Title:  Operations team leader
Job Location:  Vietnam
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Main Goal

Lead Seed Operations in Vietnam by driving safe, efficient, and high-quality plant operations while supporting supply planning activities to meet business objectives. The role is responsible for operational excellence, team development, inventory management, production planning, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure customer service, productivity, and cost efficiency.

Job description

Operations Management (75%)

  • Lead seed processing, inventory management, and day-to-day plant operations.
  • Drive operational excellence initiatives (5S, Kaizen, Gemba, SIM) to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency.
  • Manage plant OPEX/CAPEX and support continuous improvement projects.
  • Ensure compliance with Safety, Quality, and operational standards.
  • Develop, coach, and lead a high-performing operations team.
  • Monitor and improve operational KPIs, cost efficiency, and manufacturing performance.

Supply Planning (25%)

  • Support S&OP processes to balance demand and supply and ensure OTIF deliveries.
  • Lead seed production and purchase planning activities.
  • Optimize inventory levels, review forecasts, align capacity, and mitigate supply risks.
  • Collaborate with Commercial, Supply Chain, Production, Finance, and Customer Service teams.

What we expect of you

Key Skills

    • Operations & Supply Planning management
    • Leadership & Team Development
    • Strategic thinking and business acumen
    • Excellent communication and stakeholder management
    • Fluent English communication (Vietnamese preferred)

Success Measures :

OTIF Delivery, Inventory Accuracy, Safety Performance, Plant Productivity, Cost Optimization, Capacity Utilization, Quality Compliance, Supply Plan Adherence, Continuous Improvement Delivery, and Team Development.

Skills

Leadership
Job Knowledge
People Management
Product Knowledge
Budgets/Cost Control
Entrepreneurship
Decision Making/Judgment
Managing Conflict
Quality
Team Leadership
Work Environment/Safety
Vision and Values
Information at a Glance

HM.CLAUSE, Business Unit of Group Limagrain, is an innovative global leader in the development, production, and commercialization of vegetable seeds. HM.CLAUSE belongs to the top 5 vegetable seed entities in the world. With over 2,000 varieties in more than 20 vegetable crops, HM.CLAUSE provides innovative solutions to growers worldwide. HM. CLAUSE is a company committed to diversity and inclusion.

Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d’Allier plain, in the heart of Central France’s Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of 2.522 billion euros in 2023-2024, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.