Account & Product Manager Vegetables Poland

📍 Home office | Area: North Poland & South Poland

Marketing and Sales are responsible for positioning flower and vegetable varieties in the international market, generating sales, introducing new varieties and maintaining relationships with current customers and key players in the market.

As Account Manager Vegetables, you will be responsible for generating sales for an assigned customer portfolio in Poland through account management. In addition, as Product Manager you are the knowledge specialist for a product (vegetables) portfolio, ensuring the required innovation, quality and quantity of these products.

Introducing Takii

Takii is an ambitious and innovative company in vegetable and flower breeding. Takii exists to make the world a little happier. With our motto “creating tomorrow today” we consider it our mission to enrich people’s lives by breeding unique vegetable and flower varieties and producing and selling seeds.

Takii originally began as a Japanese family business. We are proud of its rich tradition. With independent branches worldwide, Takii is at home in every culture. Also, in yours.

How we do things

Takii may be characterized as an intentionally flat organization. This means that we are all available to one another, because only together can we reach our goal. Our people are team players for whom quality, respect, and reliability come naturally. Everyone at Takii takes their responsibility and shows initiative. We consider this very important because Takii wants to be an agile customer-oriented company.

Job description

Account management, and crop support

• You pursue your sales targets and develop customized sales strategies that are tailored to your customers’ needs.
• By building strong customer relationships and continuously acquiring new partners, you will continuously expand your network
• You analyze the market and keep your Senior Account & Product Manager Vegetables Poland informed of current developments through your proactive communication.
• You use your knowledge to support your customers in selecting varieties and make cultivation recommendations.
• Through regular international product days, you will develop into a professional for onion and brassica varieties and their specific requirements.
• You will supervise field trials to evaluate the performance of varieties.
• You will support the local execution of marketing initiative. You’ll work closely with the central marketing team to adapt and activate campaigns in your region. This includes helping to organize local events, open days and trade shows, as well as supporting digital initiatives such as regional social media or email campaigns. You should have a natural interest in marketing, be digitally savvy and enjoy bringing strategies to life on a local level. Guidance and tools will be provided by the HQ marketing team, but we count on your proactive attitude to make things happen in the field.

Profile

Experienced specialist for sales and agriculture

Requirements

• Business and agricultural background: You have the perfect combination of business knowledge and a deep understanding of agriculture.
• Sales experience: You have at least 3 years of experience in sales.
• Cultivation knowledge: You are familiar with cultivation of vegetable crops, or arable farming.
• Excellent communication skills: You convince your interlocutors and bring negotiations to a good conclusion.
• Flexibility and self-organization: You switch effortlessly between customer visits and home office and always maintain an overview.
• Language skills: You communicate confidently in Polish and English (if there is a willingness to learn, deficits in English are no problem).

Offer

• Stable market position: You benefit from the security of an established company with long-term career opportunities. Takii has grown steadily over the last 10 years and has consistently made a profit.
• Flextime: You can work 100 % flexibly if you fulfill 40 hours per week and complete your tasks.
• Home office equipment: Takii provides you with a laptop, smartphone and an additional screen. And if you need anything else, it can be arranged.
• Company car: You get a company car for private and business use, which saves you money and offers additional comfort.
• Vacation days: Generous vacation policies provide ample opportunity to recharge, pursue personal interests, and spend quality time with family and friends.
• The profit is shared with you: Takii has variable profit-sharing system which is determined per financial year. On average, the share is equivalent to an additional month’s salary, which is paid out in July.
• Development opportunities: You will receive tailored training and further education to expand your skills in a targeted manner.

Location

A varied working environment awaits you at Takii. You will visit growers in the vegetable sector 2-3 days a week and maintain important customer relationships there. On the other days, you will work flexibly from home and enjoy a good work-life balance. Every month you will take part in the local sales meetings, 2-3 times per year you take part in international team days with a product focus.