Job description:

Come and join our growing team. 
We are looking for a  VP Marketing & Sales.

Scope :

• Global Marketing & Sales
• Strategic Planning  

Purpose:

• Lead the TomaTech business across global markets to achieve profitable growth and to reach leadership position in key markets & segments.
• Set ambitious and realistic business objectives, develop a sound marketing strategy and drive its implementation to reach short, mid and long-term targets.
• Foster innovation and entrepreneurial behavior, build Marketing and Sales capabilities across the company markets.  
• Develop and monitor the execution of company M&S strategy, policies & procedures
• Coach and develop the regional Marketing team
• Responsible for Planning, Marketing Services & Forecasting.
• Actively lead demand creation along the value chain through downstream marketing.

Knowledge and Experience Requirements:

Critical Knowledge:

• Familiar with the Seeds & fresh product industry  
• Marketing (concepts, marketing mix principles, Branding, Segmentation etc)
• Market strategy development
• Financial analysis
• Broad product knowledge in the fruit and vegetable business
• Knowledge of influencers and channel management

Critical Skills:

•  Senior roles in sales management in the seeds business)
• People and business management
• Project management
• Evolving fresh products downstream activities 
• Organizational change management
• Marketing plan development
• Competition analysis
• Product positioning
• Product launch strategy development and implementation
• Application of Value Pricing & Selling techniques
• Application of segmentation to drive business value creation
• Team development & building
• Experience in hi-tech greenhouses would be an advantage

Critical Experience, Qualifications and Requirements:

• Demonstrated commercial track record in horticulture > 8 years in business.
• Hands on horticultural production experience
• Graduate qualification in agriculture and business administration( MBA) – preferred  or a related discipline.
• Ability to undertake regular and frequent travel
• Valid driver’s licence.

If you are looking for a new challenge and meet the criteria above, please contact us at: adi@tomatech.com