Job Description
Posting Start Date:  11/24/25
Offer ID:  1458
Unit:  Limagrain Field Seeds Research
Job Title:  Maize inbred breeding project leader
Job Location:  Longué-Jumelles
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Function

Maize inbreds breeding project leader

Main Goal

As an Inbred Corn Breeder, you will lead a breeding project based in Longué, France. You will work closely with the research and support functions to develop inbred lines with agronomic traits, disease resistance, and yield potential adapted to your dedicated market. This position provides an excellent opportunity to develop your career working in a multi-disciplinary international environment, helping shape breeding strategies and drive its local execution.

Skills

Organizational Savvy
Adaptability/Flexibility
Budgets/Cost Control
Interpersonal Skills
Technical Skills
Creativity/Innovation
Work Environment/Safety
People Management
Leadership
Results Focus
Decision Making/Judgment
Teamwork

Your benefits and working environment

Recruitment process

Information at a Glance

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.