Job Description
Posting Start Date:  9/3/26
Offer ID:  2625
Unit:  Vilmorin-Mikado
Job Title:  West Turkey Sales Manager
Job Location:  Istanbul
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

We are seeking a results-driven Sales Manager for West Türkiye region.

 

This is a high-impact role offering the opportunity to deliver sustainable sales growth, market share development and profitability by translating commercial strategy into strong field execution. The position is based in Antalya, Türkiye.

Main Goal

 

Deliver sales growth and profitability objectives in West Türkiye through effective people leadership, close market proximity, disciplined commercial management and cross-functional collaboration. 

Responsible for

 

Sales Performance & Commercial Execution

  • Deliver annual and monthly sales, volume, turnover and profitability objectives for the assigned region.
  • Translate annual commercial objectives into clear regional, crop and individual sales plans.
  • Identify growth opportunities by crop, geography, customer segment and route-to-market.
  • Drive new customer acquisition and expansion of the company’s genetic footprint across the region.
  • Ensure strong execution of forecasting, strategic sales campaigns and new product launches.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key growers and market stakeholders.
  • Maintain strong ownership of customer receivables together with Finance and the sales team.
  • Ensure consistent and high-quality use of digital tools across the sales team.
  • Promote data-driven sales management rather than relying solely on individual experience of market knowledge.

 

Demand Generation & Market Development

  • Drive demand-generation activities with growers and key decision makers.
  • Work closely with Product Development team to support product positioning, demonstrations, trials and commercial launches.
  • Follow market intelligence including crop trends and stakeholder needs.
  • Identify unmet market needs and provide structured feedback to support portfolio and product development decisions.

Qualifications

 

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering or a related field; specialization in horticulture and vegetable seeds is an advantage.
  • Proven experience in sales management, regional commercial management or leadership of a field sales team.
  • Strong knowledge of stakeholders and vegetable production dynamics.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage sales performance, forecasting and product portfolios.
  • Comfortable working with digital systems, sales data and performance indicators.
  • Good level of English communication.
  • Ability to travel extensively within the assigned region.

 

Core Competencies

  • Strong people leadership and coaching capabilities.
  • Commercially driven with strong analytical and decision-making skills.
  • Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
  • High sense of accountability and professional integrity.
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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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