You want to make a real impact with your agronomic expertise – and not just advise but actively shape the future? Then you’re in the right place. We are looking for you as an Expert (m/f/d) in Crop Protection for our International AgroService Team Sugarbeet at KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA.
This position is permanent, full-time, and based in Einbeck, (Lower Saxony).
What’s the role about?
Within the International AgroService Sugarbeet team, you’ll be part of the scientific backbone of our agronomic advisory services. We contribute in-depth knowledge to research and development projects – ensuring that our KWS traits unfold their full potential globally.
Your work will focus on crop protection – strategically, practically, and with a strong consultative element. You’ll take on responsibility for the development of holistic crop protection and crop management strategies and strengthen our location-specific advisory services. Your goal: to empower our customers to grow sugarbeets more profitable, sustainably, and successfully – by combining agronomic know-how with innovative thinking.
Your tasks – where advisory meets strategy:
* Development and implementation of specific fungicide recommendations for sugarbeets in our sugarbeet markets to ensure optimal performance of our varieties.
* Developing herbicide strategies for the entire crop rotation that minimize or avoid the use of ALS herbicides in non-CONVISO® SMART crops and promote the use of tank mixtures with different modes of action to ensure stewardship and resistance management.
* Integrating crop protection recommendations into our stewardship and management concepts for our traits.
* Coordinating and supporting the implementation of crop protection recommendations at the local level in close cooperation with KWS colleagues and external stakeholders.
* Further developing the global vision of International AgroService through outstanding agronomic advice and promoting cooperation with internal and external stakeholders worldwide.
Your profile - competence meets personality:
* Academic degree in agricultural sciences or a comparable field
* In-depth specialist knowledge and practical experience, ideally in agricultural consulting and crop protection, combined with strong passion for sugarbeet
* A proactive mindset and a reliable, independent work style with attention to detail
* Strong organizational skills and project management capabilities across regions and cultures – open to innovation, with a clear focus on priorities and the ability to manage multiple projects flexibly and effectively
* Professional confidence and a strong sense for stakeholders – you can inspire people with new ideas and strategies
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate in international teams
* IT skills in Microsoft Applications
* Fluency in English (other languages are a plus), willingness to travel (~20%), valid driver’s license (Class B)
What you can look forward to:
* A diverse and engaging role in an international environment, within an agile, dynamic, and innovation-driven team where your ideas will help shape a new era of agronomic consulting in sugarbeets
* Personal responsibility for your area in line with our motto: “Make yourself grow!”. No two days in International AgroService will be the same!
* As a family-owned company, we live by our values: closeness, reliability, independence, and foresight
* We create the right framework conditions for you: a permanent employment contract, attractive collectively agreed remuneration (including annual employee participation, Christmas and vacation bonus with 30 days' vacation), financial benefits (company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, subsidized canteen, childcare allowance, job bike, etc.), excellent work equipment and flexible working hours with the option of (partially) mobile working (hybrid working model)!
We look forward to shaping the future of sugarbeet cultivation together with you. Take your chance and apply online now (cover letter, CV, relevant certificates) via our application system!