.**Target Market: Southern California and Mexico**:Enza Zaden is looking for a highly motivated Product Specialist to join our R&D team, this position will be located in our San Juan Bautista, CA Office, or Home Office in proximity to the market.**What are you going to do as a Product Specialist?**:As Product Specialist, you are responsible for the trial planning and execution. You develop, document, and communicate the R&D screenings and the different trials plans. You ensure a qualitative execution of these trials in close coordination with all stakeholders. These stakeholders are the breeders, the technical and sales team members and channel partners for specific market segments.You evaluate the trials with your colleagues from the R&D department and discuss results with the breeding and sales team colleagues through accurate and timely trial reports. You monitor seed supply and quality of all seeds. You write crop guidelines and variety descriptions of new commercial varieties. These will be used as part of our catalogues, brochures, leaflets, and other communication tools as well as for support of the commercial organization.In addition, you develop strong market intelligence by staying up to date on recent market trends. You periodically share this information with all relevant stakeholders. You contribute to the product development or crop core team(s) by gathering professionally compiled trial data, market data and other relevant information for a smooth and fast decision-making process.**Your power**:As a Product Specialist, you have excellent knowledge of agriculture and the seed business. You possess excellent and effective communication skills. You can work independently with a clear understanding of the desired direction and priorities based on the organization's vision and strategy. You are also very flexible, like to travel and work under pressure.- 3 years of relevant work experience in sales and marketing or growing operations within the agricultural industry, vegetable seed industry preferred.- Professional, assertive, and clear communicative skills (verbal and written), including active listening skills.- Bilingual preferred; the ability to understand and to make oneself understood to all Spanish speaking individuals.- Frequent travel nationally, as well as occasionally internationally.- Must possess a valid driver's license and clean driving record.**Our power**:Enza Zaden is a vegetable breeding company that develops vegetable varieties. We produce and sell the seeds of these varieties all over the world. Both for conventional and organic growers. In order to explain this properly (and as briefly as possible) we have made an animation.For more than 80 years we are working with the best that nature offers. We support this with state-of-the-art technologies to speed up our breeding process. That is really necessary, because currently the development of a new vegetable variety takes up 6 to 10 years