Job Description
Posting Start Date:  5/13/26
Offer ID:  1993
Unit:  Vilmorin-Mikado
Job Title:  Peas & Witloof breeder
Job Location:  La Ménitré
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Function

Reporting to the Selection Manager, within a team of 7 people, this open position follows an internal reorganization and a mobility within the company.

Main Goal

You will develop new varieties of peas and witloof, and you will also supervise the breeding bean and radish team, by :

  • Defining and deploying the breeding strategy

  • Contributing to cross-functional projects with other R&D teams (Limagrain Group or partners)

  • Managing the Bean/Radish Breeder and supervising breeding assistants

  • Collaborate closely with other company departments (laboratories, marketing, sales, seed production, etc.)

  • Conducting scientific, technological and competitive monitoring in your field of expertise, and proposing ways of innovation.

Traveling: 4–5 weeks per year (France and Europe). Professional-level in English is mandatory, French would be an asset.

Job description

Position available from the 1st of July.

What we expect of you

With a Master’s or PhD degree in genetics or plant breeding, you have significant experience in both breeding and team management. You therefore master trial management, field observations, and data analysis. You know how to organize and run a breeding program using the latest technologies. You are rigorous, well-organized, and persistent, and you can work both independently and as part of an international team.

Your benefits and working environment

  • Rémunération (selon profil), avec 13ème mois versé mensuellement,

  • Statut : Cadre, forfait jour, avec 14 à 19 jours de RTT/an 

  • Prime d’intéressement-participation, Prime de performance Equipe (PPE)

  • Avantages : Mutuelle familiale, restaurant d’entreprise, avantages CSE (chèques vacances, chèques cadeaux, billetterie à prix réduit…), animations sur site gratuites, application de covoiturage.

  • Enfin, en rejoignant Vilmorin-Mikado, vous intégrerez le groupe coopératif Limagrain qui permet de s'inscrire sur le long-terme.

Recruitment process

1st Motivational Interview with a HR Member (visioconference)

2nd Technical Interview with the Manager (on site)

3rd Validation Interview with a Director (visio or on site)

 
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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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