Job Profiles

The description of common job profiles is intended to enhance clarity and to assist in identifying the appropriate career path.

• Content-related and professional supervision and maintenance of press materials, annual reports, brochures, flyers, and events
• Initiation of current agricultural topics for external communication
• General public relations activities such as presentations of the state enterprise, responding to third-party inquiries, etc.
• Soft skills: creativity, communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills, independence

Cattle Specialist Advisor

• Business and production-related advisory services for member farms in dairy production and forage cultivation
• Soft skills: independence, creativity

Research Associate

• Association mapping and QTL mapping
• Data integration and analysis, including phenotyping data
• Development and maintenance of workflows
• Soft skills: organizational and communication skills, initiative, flexibility, ability to work in a team, willingness to travel

Project Group Leader

• Execution of general performance-related tasks
• Staff deployment planning, management, and evaluation
• Definition of work objectives and priorities
• Establishing and maintaining contacts, as well as representing interests
• Internal and external representation of the unit’s responsibilities
• Participation in national and international meetings, discussions, and conferences
• Soft skills: resilience, decision-making ability, loyalty, goal orientation, communication skills, strategic thinking and action

Policy Officer / Consultant

• Requesting, reviewing, and evaluating applications and proposals for research, development, and demonstration projects
• Assessment of final reports and evaluation of implemented measures
• Professional and administrative support and supervision of ongoing projects
• Technical collaboration
• Organization, implementation, and leadership of expert discussions and status seminars with representatives from business, academia, and practice
• Collaboration with external reviewers
• Soft skills: cooperation/team skills, performance orientation, commitment/motivation, sense of responsibility, expressiveness, conceptual skills, independence

Sales Consultant; (Product, Regional, Technical) Sales Specialist/Manager; After-Sales Representative

• Maintaining the existing customer base
• Acquisition of new customers
• Ordering, consulting, processing, promotion
• Managing and maintaining customer, product, and sales records
• Logistical tasks
• Cooperation with (inter)national dealers
• Product training
• Writing technical articles for the press
• Soft skills: independence, sense of responsibility, flexibility, organizational skills, communication/contact skills, teamwork, willingness to travel, expressiveness, affinity for sales, negotiation skills, confident appearance

Field Trial Technician

• Organization and coordination of trials
• Independent technical supervision of production processes for breeding
• Evaluation of trial results
• Preparation of summary analyses and presentation graphics within the framework of annual reporting
• Soft skills: willingness to travel, independence, teamwork, sense of responsibility, flexibility, commitment, resilience

Solution Manager

• Analysis and planning tasks
• Product and program activities
• Conceptual marketing activities
• Coordination, control, monitoring, and implementation of trade fairs/trainings/conferences, etc.
• Leadership tasks, team management
• Soft skills: teamwork, communication skills, willingness to travel

Management Consultant

• Planning and support of farm business circles
• Preparation and interpretation of enterprise branch analyses
• Business analysis based on evaluation of production-related and economic performance
• Whole-farm nutrient management
• Preparation and delivery of expert presentations
• Soft skills: teamwork, communication skills, innovative capability

Market Analyst & Business Manager

• Review and updating of business cases for ongoing projects
• Analysis of current and future potential markets
• Communication with internal and external stakeholders regarding the development of business cases and market analyses
• Identification of potential data sources and data collection for required market analyses
• Project management of upcoming long-term or ad hoc business development projects
• Soft skills: high level of personal responsibility, analytical thinking and project management skills, goal orientation, strong communication skills, willingness to travel

International CRM Manager

• Coordination of the expansion of international CRM activities
• Operational support of individual sales organizations as the main contact person for CRM matters
• Support of the technical further development of CRM software and implementation of technical and content-related innovations in the markets
• Intensive collaboration and exchange within a cross-divisional and internationally oriented CRM team
• Support in analyzing and interpreting CRM data for planning marketing measures
• Participation in innovative marketing projects related to customer retention and acquisition
• Soft skills: initiative, independence, organizational skills, reliability, flexibility, intercultural competence and teamwork, strong process thinking, persuasiveness, strong communication skills, willingness to travel