KWS is one of the world's leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.8 billion in the fiscal year 2022/2023. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugar beet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants' resistance to diseases, pests, and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development.
Lead the Future of Production Controlling with Us! Are you an experienced controlling professional with a passion for leadership and a drive for continuous improvement? Do you excel in guiding and developing teams, ensuring they reach their full potential?
If so, we invite you to join our team as our new
Team Lead Production Controlling (m/f/d) at
KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA - one of the leading seed-producing companies in the world. Family-owned yet globally connected, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach and commitment to excellence.
As the
Team Lead Production Controlling (m/f/d), you will play a pivotal role in steering our production controlling team towards success. In other words:
you will shape excellence in production controlling - together with your team.
This is a permanent role and available in full-time.
Your place of work is either at our HQ in Einbeck (Lower Saxony) or at our Berlin-based site.
Your Responsibilities: - Management and development of a team of professionals in production controlling and ensuring that the professional advice is based on best practices.
- Development, harmonization and introduction of KWS-wide guidelines and continuous improvement of controlling standards and processes for production controlling in close coordination with the relevant functions.
- Provision of data and analysis on production processes and costs for decision-making in global business units. Conceptual development and implementation of production controlling tools in close collaboration with the business units – controlling, production/logistics, sales – and the business partners
- Ensuring key user support in the relevant SAP modules – ie. SAP CO-PA, ML, Cogs
- Definition of system requirements for production controlling, assessment of change requests and ensuring appropriate system training for controllers on relevant systems
Your Profile: - Preferably an academic degree in business administration or international business with a focus on controlling
- Considerable knowledge and experience in controlling in an international company
- Demonstrated knowledge in production controlling
- Experience in the conceptual development of existing processes
- Proven leadership skills
- Experience with relevant IT systems (MS Office and others)
- Profound understanding of relevant SAP systems and their interactions
- Excellent communication skills with different target groups – eg. business unit heads
- Empathy paired with assertiveness
- Very good command of English (written and spoken); German language skills are considered an asset
Our Offer: - An exceptionally interesting and varied job in an international environment with the opportunity to contribute innovative ideas
- Working in an international, highly motivated and dynamic team with flat hierarchies
- Flexible working hours with the possibility of mobile working (hybrid)
- As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and vision - a culture that is also lived in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly work atmosphere
- In line with our motto: "Make Yourself Grow!" we promote individual professional and personal development.
- As a basis, we offer excellent work equipment (high-quality, ergonomic workstations, several monitors, air conditioning) and sufficient free parking spaces at the location.
- We also create the appropriate framework conditions: capital-forming benefits, Christmas and vacation pay, childcare allowance, company bicycle
We look forward to receiving your application. Please use the "Apply" function in the online advertisement.