Expert (M/F/d) Crop Protection / International Agroservice Sugarbeet

**You want to make a real impact with your agronomic expertise - and not just advise but actively shape the future?** Then you’re in the right place. We are looking for you as an **Expert (M/F/d) in Crop Protection** for our International AgroService Team Sugarbeet** at **KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA.**
This position is **permanent**, **full-time**, and based in **Einbeck**, (Lower Saxony).

**What’s the role about?**

Within the International AgroService Sugarbeet team, you’ll be part of the scientific backbone of our agronomic advisory services. We contribute in-depth knowledge to research and development projects - ensuring that our KWS traits unfold their full potential globally.

Your work will focus on crop protection - strategically, practically, and with a strong consultative element. You’ll take on responsibility for the development of holistic crop protection and crop management strategies and strengthen our location-specific advisory services. **Your goal: to empower our customers to grow sugarbeets more profitable, sustainably, and successfully - by combining agronomic know-how with innovative thinking.**

**Your tasks - where advisory meets strategy**:

- Development and implementation of specific fungicide recommendations for sugarbeets in our sugarbeet markets to ensure optimal performance of our varieties.
- Developing herbicide strategies for the entire crop rotation that minimize or avoid the use of ALS herbicides in non-CONVISO® SMART crops and promote the use of tank mixtures with different modes of action to ensure stewardship and resistance management.
- Integrating crop protection recommendations into our stewardship and management concepts for our traits.
- Coordinating and supporting the implementation of crop protection recommendations at the local level in close cooperation with KWS colleagues and external stakeholders.
- Further developing the global vision of International AgroService through outstanding agronomic advice and promoting cooperation with internal and external stakeholders worldwide.

**Your profile - competence meets personality**:

- Academic degree in agricultural sciences or a comparable field
- ** In-depth specialist knowledge and practical experience, ideally in agricultural consulting and crop protection**, combined with strong passion for sugarbeet
- A proactive mindset and a reliable, independent work style with attention to detail
- ** Strong organizational skills** and project management capabilities across regions and cultures - open to innovation, with a clear focus on priorities and the ability to manage multiple projects flexibly and effectively
- Professional confidence and a strong sense for stakeholders - you can inspire people with new ideas and strategies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate in international teams
- IT skills in Microsoft Applications
- ** Fluency in English** (other languages are a plus), **willingness to travel** (~20%), **valid driver’s license (Class B)**

**What you can look forward to**:

- A diverse and engaging role in an international environment, within an agile, dynamic, and innovation-driven team where your ideas will help shape a new era of agronomic consulting in sugarbeets
- Personal responsibility for your area in line with our motto: “Make yourself grow”. No two days in International AgroService will be the same
- As a family-owned company, we live by our values: closeness, reliability, independence, and foresight
- We create the right framework conditions for you: a permanent employment contract, attractive collectively agreed remuneration (including annual employee participation, Christmas and vacation bonus with 30 days' vacation), financial benefits (company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, subsidized canteen, childcare allowance, job bike, etc.), excellent work equipment and flexible working hours with the option of (partially) mobile working (hybrid working model)