Jobs at Enza Zaden

Leads post-harvest quality, sensory, and consumer research for vegetable products. Designs assessments, analyzes data, develops protocols, and translates findings into recommendations for breeding, product management, marketing, sales, and customer value propositions. The role coordinates international multidisciplinary projects, prioritizes research activities, collaborates with internal and external partners, engages customers, and supervises two laboratory technicians in Murcia and Almeria.

Lead and own the company-wide S&OP/IBP process: run S&OP cycles and reviews, align demand and supply, set S&OP metrics, drive gap analyses and cross-functional action plans, engage senior stakeholders, and define the future-state S&OP vision while supporting organizational capability development.

Support Record-to-Report activities including journal entries, allocations, intercompany accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset management, period-end close, and (group) financial statement preparation. Maintain and improve internal control frameworks, support audits, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure high-quality financial reporting and consolidation.

Lead and manage seed enhancement research programs from concept to implementation. Develop and validate technologies (e.g., priming, coating), translate findings into scalable operational protocols, collaborate with internal and external partners, and align research outcomes with business and operational objectives.

As a Station Manager, oversee R&D operations, manage resources, lead a team, ensure cultivation standards, and drive continuous improvement in a collaborative environment.

Serve as strategic finance partner to Seed Operations and Business Dynamic teams: advise senior management, lead planning & control cycles, deliver reporting, budgeting and forecasting, prepare financial analyses, business cases and investment plans, support M&A and business development, and build finance capability across regions.

The Genetic Resources Access Specialist ensures compliance with international regulations for genetic resources, advises on access opportunities, and trains teams on ABS topics.

Leads tactical supply planning for a global seed portfolio, balancing customer service, inventory, production capacity, and supply risks. Manages and coaches three operational supply planners, coordinates cross-functional supply teams, facilitates supply reviews, supports product introductions and phase-outs, and drives solutions with Production, R&D, Quality, Commercial, and Demand Planning. The role also contributes to inventory management, continuous improvement, and international supply chain projects.

Contribute to cucumber and pumpkin breeding programs by planning and executing breeding activities, selecting lines, evaluating crop traits, maintaining breeding records, planning trials and seed handover, and collaborating with the senior breeder while developing breeding skills and implementing new traits and technologies.

Develop a modular genome annotation pipeline based on BRAKER for complex plant genomes, integrate multi-omics (transcriptomic, proteomic) data, apply deep-learning methods to improve annotations, and validate performance on tomato and lettuce.

Designs and manages field and commercial variety trials, evaluates hybrid performance, analyzes trial data, supports seed supply and new variety selection, and provides technical positioning and support to Breeding, Product Management, and Sales teams for successful commercial introduction.

Manage and grow sales across the Pacific Northwest while supporting product development for vegetable seed varieties. Execute sales strategies, run and analyze local trials, collaborate with global breeding teams, introduce new varieties, provide technical agronomic support, report market intelligence, mentor junior staff, and ensure successful commercialization and customer adoption.

Coordinate tactical seed production planning for allium crops across global locations. Translate demand forecasts into production programs, validate plans with specialists, manage volume adjustments and cancellations, identify bottlenecks, run root-cause analyses, maintain master data, monitor KPI performance, and support continuous improvement in planning processes and systems.

Design, build, enhance and maintain modern business applications using low-code, pro-code, AI-assisted and cloud-native technologies. Translate business needs into scalable user-friendly solutions, implement integrations (REST, Logic Apps, SQL), support users, create reusable components, and improve application performance, security and lifecycle management while collaborating in multidisciplinary Agile teams.

Support execution of seed production by monitoring crops from stock seed to harvest, ensuring quality, quantity, timing and compliance. Collect, analyze and report production and inventory data, maintain phytosanitary and certification checks, assist with production planning using ERP/ProfiApp systems, and prepare analyses for cross-functional meetings. Work under guidance of senior specialists and participate in projects to optimize seed producibility and supplier performance.

Plan, execute, and evaluate field and commercial variety trials for vegetable crops. Analyze performance data, manage trial materials, collaborate with breeding, product management, sales, and stakeholders to advance experimental varieties toward commercialization, provide technical guidance, and support product introductions.

Lead global seed production for Mid Tech Leafy and Open Field crops. Manage and develop a production team, ensure quality/quantity/cost/timing targets, drive S&OP and cross-functional collaboration, improve processes and ensure regulatory compliance with external partners.

Lead global seed production strategy and execution for the Mid-Tech Business Dynamic. Develop and implement production plans, manage supplier performance, ensure quality, phytosanitary, IP and regulatory compliance, drive continuous improvement, and lead a global production team while collaborating with Supply Chain, R&D, commercial teams, and Business Dynamic leadership to ensure reliable worldwide seed supply.

Maximize sales and profit in assigned customer base, develop customer plans, maintain business relationships, provide technical support for product introduction, and collect market data.

As an intern at Enza Zaden, you will gain hands-on experience in various fields including Marketing, Research, IT, HR, and Supply Chain. You will have the opportunity to contribute, learn, and develop your talents in a collaborative and innovative environment.