Head of Product Optimizer Marketing

As a commercially minded Marketing Leader, you shape the future of our vegetable business by turning insights into stronger grower value propositions, portfolio choices, and innovation priorities. You will lead a cross-functional marketing team to connect growers with retailers, translating market needs into compelling go-to-market plans. This role blends strategy, pricing, and stakeholder influence to drive growth and premium-quality produce. You will work across crops and regions and help define long-term innovation directions.

• Annual bonus and profit-sharing
• Flexible working options
• Learning Edge online learning platform
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 25 vacation days + vitality day; additional day every 5 years after age 35
• Attractive pension plan

• Lead the marketing and portfolio strategy for the Product Optimizer segment across vegetable crops and regions
• Translate grower, retailer, shopper and value-chain needs into propositions, positioning, pricing logic and go-to-market plans
• Influence longer-term product, crop and innovation choices using downstream and industry insight
• Lead, coach and develop a team of 4–6 marketing professionals, and manage budget and investment priorities
• Collaborate with technical, crop, commercial, portfolio, R&D and regional teams to turn market needs into actionable innovation briefs
• Contribute to five-year business planning and ensure aligned execution of marketing processes across markets

• Significant experience in marketing, category management, portfolio management or commercial leadership within vegetables, fresh produce, seeds or related value chain
• Strong understanding of the vegetable industry from growers to trade, retail and consumers
• Experience translating customer or shopper needs into product specifications or portfolio decisions
• Commercial experience with assortment or portfolio management, pricing, promotion, quality, availability, supplier management and/or waste reduction
• Experience leading teams and cross-functional projects in international and complex environments
• Credibility, strategic judgement and communication skills to influence technical experts, growers, commercial teams and senior stakeholders

• Influencing without authority
• Strategic thinking and judgement
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Portfolio management
• Go-to-market planning
• Pricing logic development