Job Description
Posting Start Date:  8/4/25
Offer ID:  1203
Unit:  Vilmorin-Mikado
Job Title:  Agronomic production manager
Job Location:  La Ménitré
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Function

Within the Hazera production team, but based in the Vilmorin-Mikado site in La Ménitré (49), both companies belonging to the Limagrain Group, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the supply of seeds for the Allium sector (onions and leeks) throughout France and part of Italy.

Your responsibilities: coordinate, allocate, and supervise regional seed production within Limagrain's network of farmers and with external suppliers for the production of Allium seeds. The main objective of this position is to ensure the region's production performance indicators (KPIs) in terms of costs, quantity, and quality.

 

Main Goal

For this position, we have defined four main responsibilities:

  • Animate and manage a network of producers (propagator farmers), anticipating seed/bulb needs, planning production phases and equipment requirements, providing technical support, monitoring, and crop evaluation.
  • Prospect and identify the best producers: develop the network, create new partnerships as needed, negotiate volumes and prices.
  • Ensure seed quality and traceability: crop monitoring, field and batch inspections, up to obtaining phytosanitary documents, in compliance with standards and contracts, to ensure operational excellence for our clients through key performance indicators (KPIs), as well as advice and good relationships with regulatory authorities (FNAMS).
  • Contribute to the production strategy: data analysis, contribution to the selection of acreage, producers, risk allocation, and crop placement, decision-making, and technological and competitive intelligence.

This position is based at our La Ménitré site (30 minutes from Angers and Saumur) with frequent travel to France and Italy during peak season. Remote working is possible (2 days/week). For this position, fluency in French and professional English level is required.

Job environment

Replacement in the context of a retirement.
We hope to implement a 12-month knowledge transfer (working in pair).

What we expect of you

You have a Bachelor or a Master's degree in agriculture, horticulture, or any other equivalent field. You have at least 5 years of successful field experience as a seed supplier/producer, ideally allium, seed carriers, or biennial crops. You are autonomous and will be able to organize your work (seasonality, visits, deadlines, etc.) and demonstrate good communication skills in order to adapt to the different people you meet (farmers, colleagues, institutes, etc.). As a leader, you will be able to be both diplomatic and proactive in order to successfully complete the projects entrusted to you.

Your benefits and working environment

  • This position will provide you with direct and cross-functional integration into two seed companies, benefiting from expertise across a variety of production lines. Additionally, you will be part of the Limagrain cooperative group, where the diversity of positions allows for long-term commitment.
  • Salary will be determined based on your profile, with a 13th month's salary paid monthly.
  • 'Cadre' status with a high degree of autonomy, daily package (211 days worked per year), granting you 14 to 19 additional days of leave per year, in addition to the 5 legal weeks of vacation.
  • Performance bonus (up to 1.5 months' salary), incentive bonus.
  • Company car, on-site cafeteria-restaurant, Works Council benefits.
  • Support and training program for up to 12 months (upon retirement).

Recruitment process

  • First selection interview (online meeting) with the Recruiter and the Manager
  • Second validation interview (online or on-site) with the Vilmorin-Mikado Production Director and the Hazera Production Director.
  • If you are selected, we will offer you a third and final meeting to present the proposal and explain the package, the conditions of employment, etc.
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Vilmorin-Mikado is a Franco-Japanese seed producer that has specialized in creating, producing, and selling vegetable seeds for professionals since 1743. As a responsible partner in the vegetable food chain, Vilmorin-Mikado is committed to helping better nourish people everywhere. Our wide range of unique, original seeds is distributed on five continents in more than 100 countries. Vilmorin-Mikado has more than 1,000 employees and recorded sales of €230 million in 2022-2023, of which 15% was entirely devoted to research. World leader in carrots and witloof chicory, Vilmorin-Mikado is also a major player in salads, tomatoes, sweet peppers, kabocha squashes, daikon radishes and bunching onions. Nearly three centuries ago, Vilmorin-Mikado's founders began our Tree Seeds work, which actively contributes to rebuilding sustainable forests.

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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