Jobs at Enza Zaden

Leads end-to-end digital transformation projects across the organization, translating business ambitions into project plans and delivering solutions involving data, cloud, analytics, automation, and AI. Responsibilities include stakeholder alignment, scope and budget management, risk management, implementation, change management, and user adoption within the Road to Digital program.

Manages local office operations, facilities, procurement, budgeting, health and safety compliance, travel and visitor arrangements, meetings, events, promotional materials, and IT asset inventory. Provides administrative coordination across departments while maintaining high-quality employee and visitor services and a safe office environment.

Own the Allium vegetable seed portfolio across Sub-Saharan Africa. Develop regional market and crop strategies, optimize product positioning, support variety advancement and seed allocation, analyze market and customer intelligence, and collaborate with sales, marketing, breeders, developers, and global portfolio teams. Build relationships with growers, distributors, advisors, and industry associations while driving market share, gross margin, and successful product introductions. The role is based in South Africa and requires frequent regional travel.

Own the global tomato product portfolio across conventional and organic varieties. Develop assortment, lifecycle, pricing, positioning, allocation, and market plans using sales, forecast, profitability, and market data. Lead cross-functional teams spanning product management, marketing, sales, breeding, and operations. Manage inventory, product flow, obsolete varieties, innovation projects, and plant variety protection activities while driving revenue, profitability, and sustainable growth.

Leads global end-to-end supply planning for the Open Field Business Dynamic, including strategic, tactical, and operational planning. Oversees S&OP and collaborates with Marketing, Sales, Demand Planning, R&D, Portfolio Management, and Production. Builds planning capabilities, improves processes, implements advanced planning systems, and manages inventory, quality, and order flow. Leads and develops a high-performing team while aligning supply chain execution with business objectives.

Develop sales and profitability within an assigned customer portfolio while providing technical advice on vegetable varieties. Build customer relationships, prepare forecasts and pricing proposals, identify market opportunities, coordinate local product trials, support variety evaluations and introductions, and monitor competitors and market trends. The role combines commercial sales responsibility with agricultural or horticultural product development and requires frequent domestic travel.

Leads global financial partnering for Marketing & Sales and Mid Tech management teams. Advises senior leaders on strategy, performance, value creation, investments, acquisitions, and business development. Owns planning and control activities, including reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, while strengthening collaboration among international finance teams and business controllers.

Leads Enza Zaden’s global legal strategy and a team of four legal professionals. Responsibilities include optimizing commercial contracts and contract management, managing legal risks, advising senior leadership and the Board, handling complex international legal matters, and representing the company in external legal networks. The role combines hands-on legal work with strategic leadership, stakeholder management, compliance support, and global collaboration.

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

Manages end-to-end supply chain operations across India and Southeast Asia, including demand and supply planning, procurement, inventory optimization, logistics, import/export, regulatory compliance, order management, and customer service. Leads the supply chain team, coordinates cross-functional planning, drives continuous improvement and digitalization, manages ERP-based operations, and ensures product availability, quality, and operational efficiency.

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.

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.

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.

As a Sales Executive & Product Developer, you'll establish relationships with growers and stakeholders, drive sales, manage customer interactions, and support product trials and market intelligence to enhance sales strategies.

The Sales Representative is responsible for executing demand creation activities, supporting channel sales, building relationships with stakeholders, assisting product development, and gathering market intelligence in Vera Viscaya.

As a Production Support Administrator, you will coordinate production data, manage crops and quality reports, update production orders, monitor delivery plans, and suggest improvements for efficiency in vegetable breeding processes.

Execute demand creation activities, support sales channels, build relationships with industry stakeholders, and gather market intelligence. Responsibilities include monitoring channels and assisting product development support.

Manage and grow sales within an assigned territory, provide technical agronomic support for vegetable varieties, identify and advance promising experimental varieties through local trials, collect and report market intelligence, mentor junior staff, and prepare sales presentations, proposals, and contracts to drive commercialization.