Product Development Specialist

Job Description

Title: Product Development Specialist

Company Name: East-West Seed

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Chattogram

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Multinational Companies, Farming

• Bachelor/Honors
• Masters

• A Bachelor’s/ Master’s Degree in Agriculture/ Horticulture/ Genetics & Plant Breeding.

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Multinational Companies, Farming

• Minimum 5 years of vegetables seeds variety development/ business and/or marketing experience.
• Profound knowledge of the Vegetables Seeds market and customer needs.
• Track-record of successful people/ processes management.
• Good English language proficiency.

Plans and evaluates PD trials (on station) and and organizes key farmers’ field trials with the PD Technical Field Assistants/MDOs/TSOs. Effectively allocation of daily farm labour, ensuring on time farm activities including all agronomic practices and resource management. Based on a yearly planned trial program; conduct all farm trials (RYT, PDS1/2, Staggering and Performance trials) timely, collect and record data and share reports in time to support the Country business.

Key roles and responsibility:

• Plans and evaluates PD trials (on station) and and organizes key farmers’ field trials with the PD Technical Field Assistants/MDOs/TSOs.

• Collects trial results and data (real-time through Phenome) and consolidates into trial reports and shares it in time with the different stakeholders. 

• Refines the product positioning for launching varieties and defines the key buying factors.

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the changing market trends and grower needs and a high level knowledge regarding the competitors’ key varieties.

• Plans the NPI (New Product Introduction) varieties, trial seeds allocation and key trait evaluation for the pre-commercial trials and plans with the Marketing Team for demonstration trials.

• Gives technical support to key producers, leverages technical knowledge to the sales team to prepare sales arguments and after sales support.

• Provides investigation support for customer complaints.

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS/ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Contribute regional requirements to steer the development of a winning portfolio and pipeline for the Country.

• Plan and evaluate with sales & marketing teams pre-commercial trials and coordinate trial seed availability to ensure a timely trial set-up.

• Through pre-commercial trials, drive assessment of NPI candidates with sales & marketing teams and manage pre-commercial field trials with PDOs/MDOs/TSOs.

• Positions the new products (segmentation, technical / commercial positioning) and coordinates the NPIs.

• Support sales force and demand creators by providing market trends, product and price positioning and technical expertise for customer complaints.

• Plans and manages pre-commercial trials to refine product positioning and plan for successful new product introductions (NPI’s).
  

• Mobile bill,Gratuity
• Salary Review: Yearly
• Festival Bonus: 2

Yearly short term incentives

Insurance (Life & Medical)

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