Agronomy Regional Technical Support

Position Title: Agronomy Regional Technical Support 

Position Type: Regular – Full-Time 

Position Location: Harnes 

Requisition ID: 29552 

We are looking for our new Agronomy Regional Technical Support to join our Agronomy organization at McCain. Within the CE agronomy department, you will deal with issues around threats of climate change and the increasing ask for differentiation by bringing high technical support to our growers and field representatives. You will be the eye of agronomy on the fields and provide the field team with best-in-class technical support for our growers and field representatives. You will provide support in topics such as variety, crop management, regenerative practices, and storage.

You will report to the Agronomy Technical Support Lead CE. This position will be based in either Harnes, France or Lewedorp/Lelystad, the Netherlands.

Key responsibilities:

• You monitor crop development on the field and in storage together with your team for CE, where you will for example organize test liftings and store loading samples. Furthermore, you will support the different teams in implementing and deploying their trail strategy on the farms.
• You bring technical support to growers and field representatives. From design to implementation of the technical support strategy, you ensure good coverage of growers in CE. On top of that, you will bring technical support to growers and a sales toolkit to field representatives for implementation of innovations related to new varieties, farming practices / solutions allowing savings in carbon, water, nitrogen, pesticides, and other sustainable solutions to ensure competitiveness and robustness of the potato production. You utilize a CRM tool to update grower information/activities and crop events.
• You support the Regenerative Agriculture deployment (implementing regenerative farming practices on 100% of our potato acreage by 2030) by developing and coordinating the animation with the field representatives and sharing needs for specific technical research with the R&D innovation Lead.
• You contribute to reach food safety /quality targets at farm level.

Qualifications :

• You have a master’s degree in agriculture or agronomy and excellent potato knowledge (growing practices, storing, economics, diseases, genomic, varieties developed regionally and globally).
• You are an excellent relationship builder, to build sustainable relationships with the growers.
• You have strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders in a multicultural environment.
• You have excellent oral and written communications skills across all levels of the organization, and strong written and spoken English skills and Fluent Dutch for the Netherlands of Fluent French for France.
• You have strong strategic decision skills and know how to navigate through a complex matrix organization.
• You are entrepreneurial and hands-on.
• You have strong analytical skills and can synthesize and translate information in an easy-to-understand way.

To remember :

1. You can lead your activity in a new way of working.
2. You work on our future vision and strategy for our potato business.
3. You will work on exciting projects for sustainable solutions in a technology and data driven company.
4. You will have the opportunity to bring the agronomy organization to a higher level.
5. A role in which you can show full ownership.

What we offer:

• An exciting full-time position.
• Extensive career and learning opportunities.
• This job will offer frequent travelling within European countries, with the possibility to work 50% from home.

Learn more about McCain:

McCain is a leading Canadian company in the frozen potato products market, with 22,000 employees worldwide.

Today, McCain has 54 production plants worldwide. McCain promotes values such as integrity, authenticity, commitment, and solidarity by actively pushing for change in a context where the safety of all is paramount.

To achieve this, actions have been put in place in favor of environmental protection: sustainable agriculture, efficient use of resources, quality food and prosperous communities.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. 

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Job Family: Agriculture 

Division: Continental Europe 

Department: Agronomy NL and Russia Ag 

Location(s): FR – France : Pas-de-Calais : Harnes vacanciesin.euvacanciesin.eu NL – Netherlands : Flevoland : Lelystad vacanciesin.euvacanciesin.eu NL – Netherlands : Zeeland : Lewedorp 

Company: McCain Alimentaire SAS 

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