Product Development Representative (Rome Area) Job Description Posting Start Date: 6/23/26 Offer ID: **** Unit: Vilmorin-Mikado Job Title: Product Development Representative (Rome Area) Job Location: Italy Contract type: Permanent
Function
This role is responsible for evaluating our products and supporting their commercial launch and sales promotion in the area of expertise.
Main Goal
Ensure efficient support in the operational and administrative management of product development projects, contributing to the correct monitoring of the market and the success of commercial launches.
Main missions
Plan, coordinate and carry out development trials in your area and segment
Evaluate the agronomic performance and adaptability of the varieties with respect to market standards
Analyze the positioning of the variety in the target supply chains
Identify competitive advantages, commercial strengths and critical issues
Conduct and update market analysis (segmentation, competitive analysis, trends)
Develop market knowledge and contribute to business plans
Organize promotional events for direct and indirect customers
Define and develop selling points locally
Contribution activities
Provide the Product Development Manager with the elements necessary to define sales forecasts (volumes, quality and timing) for the first years of marketing.
What we expect from you
Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Science or equivalent
Minimum of 3 years' experience in the agro-related dustry
Interpersonal skills and customer orientation
Strong commercial aptitude and teamwork
Motivation, proactivity and operational autonomy
Good knowledge of English (written and spoken)
Open to frequent travel
Skills
Collaboration
Customer Focus
Entrepreneurship
Initiative
Integrity/Ethics
Problem Solving/Analysis
Product Knowledge




Communication
Accountability
Your benefits and working environment
Integration into a specialized technical team in an international environment
Participation in innovative product development projects
Continuous learning in the agricultural and seed sector
Dynamic, collaborative and results-oriented environment
Professional development opportunities
Vilmorin-Mikado is a Franco-Japanese seed producer that has specialized in creating, producing, and selling vegetable seeds for professionals since ****. As a responsible partner in the vegetable food chain, Vilmorin-Mikado is committed to helping better nourish people everywhere. Our wide range of unique, original seeds is distributed on five continents in more than 100 countries. Vilmorin-Mikado has more than 1,000 employees and recorded sales of €230 million in *********, of which 15% was entirely devoted to research. World leader in carrots and witloof chicory, Vilmorin-Mikado is also a major player in salads, tomatoes, sweet peppers, kabocha squashes, daikon radishes and bunching onions. Nearly three centuries ago, Vilmorin-Mikado's founders began our Tree Seeds work, which actively contributes to rebuilding sustainable forests.
Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne?Val d'Allier plain, in the heart of Central France's Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri?food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of ***** billion euros in *********, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.
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