Global Production Crop Strategist

Overseeing the Global supply of assigned vegetable seed crop(s) to customers worldwide through the development and execution of the seed Production and crop placement strategy. Reaching the agreed Global supply goals on quality, quantity, timing, and cost, managing risks, identifying future supply constraints, and developing actions for their resolution. Responsible for crop knowledge transfer across regional field production teams, enabling continuous improvement.Duties:Create and lead with the global crop teams the development of a global sourcing strategy for the assigned crop family. Match sourcing options to global crop requirements on costs, risk, and market requirements.Lead the implementation of the global sourcing plan in close cooperation with Global Crop Planner. Collaborating with Procurement and Regional Production Managers to maximize capacity and capability.Co-creation of the biannual Crop release plan to present the sourcing strategy and choices to achieve sign off on the sourcing plan from the Vegetable Leadership Team.Monitor, evaluate and provide feedback on variety promotion decisions. This includes New Product Introductions (NPI) producibility evaluation and Intellectual Property (IP) security.Collaborate with R&D and Field Production Research (FPR) to manage NPI transition to production.Lead transition of any newly acquired product lines into appropriate production areas or schemes. Active participation in M&A integrations.Provide data and formal business support for negotiations and contract development in cooperation with Procurement & Regional Field Production Managers. Includes, but is not limited to, proposing base yield targets, quality requirements, and cost of goods awareness. Negotiate/agree with regional teams to set an agreed-upon base yield for the regional target.Work closely with Multiplication Order Management (MoM) and the Regional Production Manager on the execution of the vendor plan and reporting.Work with Parent Seed/Field Production (FP) teams and MoM to ensure stock seed availability to execute the production plan and ensure Master Data is in place to execute the plan.Establish agronomic data collection needs for species and work with Regional Field Production teams to ensure accuracy & harmonization across regions.Lead data-driven production analysis in cooperation with FP Teams, evaluating quality, yield, timing & cost; supporting future crop plans and continuous improvement initiatives to meet GCU objectives; providing feedback to stakeholders in Seeds Operations, M&S, R&D, and FinanceIn cooperation with the FP team and Procurement, utilize data to evaluate region, grower, and vendor performance.Monitoring and evaluating progress utilizing a KPI system to evaluate performance, track improvements, and implement and lead continuous improvement projects.Develop IP security measures in line with the crop needs and operational capability by incorporating into the strategy and individual variety or vendor requirements. Measures are shared with FP for implementation.