Main Goal
As Country Manager Germany and Head of the Northeast Europe Business Area, you lead the development and performance of Limagrain Field Seeds across Germany, Poland, Denmark, and the Baltics.
In this role, you define and implement the Business Area strategy aligned with Limagrain Field Seeds’ European ambitions. You drive sales and marketing performance across the region while ensuring strong collaboration with European functions and support teams.
You also act as the legal and administrative representative of the German entity, ensuring compliance with local regulations and alignment with Limagrain policies and governance.
This position is located in Edemissen, Germany.
Job description
Drive business performance
- Define and implement the Business Area strategic roadmap aligned with Limagrain Field Seeds Europe strategy
- Lead sales and marketing performance across the Business Area to achieve revenue, market share, and profitability targets
- Supervise the development and implementation of sales and marketing plans
- Manage demand planning processes at Business Area level
- Identify and develop new business opportunities across the region
Lead the organization
- Develop and manage the Business Area organizational structure and leadership team
- Ensure the availability of the right competencies and capabilities within the organization
- Foster people development, engagement, and collaboration across the Business Area
- Promote operational excellence and continuous improvement
Strengthen cross-functional collaboration
- Work closely with European Marketing, Commercial Excellence, Supply and support functions to ensure alignment and execution of crop strategies and commercial initiatives
- Facilitate the implementation of European strategic initiatives within the Business Area
- Support portfolio, pricing, and demand/supply optimization initiatives
Represent the company
- Act as the main representative of Limagrain Field Seeds towards key customers, partners, and industry organizations
- Ensure compliance with German legislation and Limagrain corporate policies
- Contribute actively to European business committees and strategic initiatives
What we expect of you
You are a commercially driven leader with strong business acumen and the ability to lead teams in a complex international environment. You combine strategic thinking with operational execution and know how to mobilize teams around clear business objectives.
You bring:
- Significant experience in Sales leadership within the agribusiness sector
- Strong commercial mindset and customer orientation
- Proven experience managing P&L and business performance
- Solid leadership experience managing international and multicultural teams
- Demonstrated change management capabilities and ability to lead organizational transformation
- Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Fluency in German and English, with strong understanding of the German business environment
- Willingness to travel frequently across the region
Strategic, resilient, and hands-on, you thrive in matrix organizations and are able to create strong connections between local teams and global functions while driving business growth.
Recruitment process
Once your application has been submitted, an acknowledgement of receipt will confirm its receipt. We will study your profile in relation to the needs of the position and the company.
If your application is selected, the following steps are part of our process:
- After a prequalification interview, you will meet your manager and HR Director.
- Then we will ask you to participate into the assessment process.
Groupe Limagrain is an employer that respects diversity and encourages applications from all backgrounds