Job Description
Posting Start Date:  6/23/26
Offer ID:  2274
Unit:  Vilmorin-Mikado
Job Title:  Product Development Representative
Job Location:  Italy
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Function

This role is responsible for evaluating our products and supporting their commercial launch and sales promotion in the area of expertise.

Main Goal

Ensure efficient support in the operational and administrative management of product development projects, contributing to the correct monitoring of the market and the success of commercial launches.

Main missions

  • Plan, coordinate and carry out development trials in your area and segment
  • Evaluate the agronomic performance and adaptability of the varieties with respect to market standards
  • Analyze the positioning of the variety in the target supply chains
  • Identify competitive advantages, commercial strengths and critical issues
  • Conduct and update market analysis (segmentation, competitive analysis, trends)
  • Develop market knowledge and contribute to business plans
  • Organize promotional events for direct and indirect customers
  • Define and develop selling points locally

Contribution activities

Provide the Product Development Manager with the elements necessary to define sales forecasts (volumes, quality and timing) for the first years of marketing.

What we expect from you

  • Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Science or equivalent
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience in the agro-related dustry
  • Interpersonal skills and customer orientation
  • Strong commercial aptitude and teamwork
  • Motivation, proactivity and operational autonomy
  • Good knowledge of English (written and spoken)
  • Open to frequent travel

Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Customer Focus
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Initiative
  • Integrity/Ethics
  • Problem Solving/Analysis
  • Product Knowledge
  • Communication
  • Accountability

Your benefits and working environment

  • Integration into a specialized technical team in an international environment
  • Participation in innovative product development projects
  • Continuous learning in the agricultural and seed sector
  • Dynamic, collaborative and results-oriented environment
  • Professional development opportunities
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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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