Job Description
Posting Start Date:  12/9/25
Offer ID:  1529
Unit:  Limagrain Field Seeds Europe
Job Title:  Head of agronomic production (f/m)
Job Location:  Saint-Beauzire
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Function

 

As Head of Agronomic Production, you will define and implement the production strategy for all crops and generations across Europe, ensuring performance improvement and alignment with LFS’s global ambition. You will manage a significant seed purchase budget, lead a multicultural team, and represent Limagrain externally.

Main Goal

 

  • Define and implement agronomic production strategy for all crops and generations to meet business objectives in terms of volume, quality, and cost (COGP).
  • Build and monitor mid-term production plans to improve key performance indicators (Yield, Reliability, Quality, COGP).
  • Validate crop plans and management rules, including safety ratios, discard levels, and carry-over.
  • Drive performance improvement through KPI monitoring and corrective action plans.
  • Manage seed purchase budget, prepare financial reviews, and ensure budget compliance.
  • Lead and develop teams, fostering a culture of safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Represent Limagrain externally with subcontractors, certification bodies, and trade associations.

What we expect of you

Education: Master’s degree in Agronomy or Agriculture.
Experience: 7+ years in seed production within an international environment, including team leadership and budget management.
Skills: Agronomic expertise, negotiation, financial acumen, change management, and strong leadership. Performance-oriented, you are recognized for your ability to lead, challenge, and develop teams. 
Languages: Fluent English required; another European language is a plus.

Skills

Adaptability/Flexibility
Budgets/Cost Control
Collaboration
Decision Making/Judgment
Entrepreneurship
Managing Performance
Negotiation Skills

Your benefits and working environment

A strategic leadership role in a global seed company and an innovative, collaborative, and international environment.

International exhibition: coordination of production areas in Europe. 

 

If you are looking for a key role in Limagrain Field Seeds' overall performance, join us! 

Recruitment process

Once we receive your application, we will notify you promptly. If it is accepted, you will go through a multi-step process:

 

- Pre-qualification with the Recruitment team.

- Meeting with LFS's European HR Director and your future manager.

- Evaluation via an assessment, followed by a Talent Management interview.

- Final discussion with the BU CEO.

 

The Limagrain Group is an employer that respects diversity and encourages applications from all backgrounds.
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Limagrain Field Seeds, with its international multi-crop LG brand is the global Feld Seeds division of Group Limagrain. Limagrain Field Seeds covers all continents with subsidiaries in over 40 countries and sales in 77 countries. Limagrain Field Seeds supplies LG branded seeds of Maize, Wheat, Sunflower, Winter Rape and other regional crops to all farmers large or small. A strong commitment to progress through technology ensures that plant variety improvements arrive continually from 84 research sites and are adapted for maximum local performance.

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.
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