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New Cultivar Fruit Performance Lead

4 months ago


Mount Maunganui, New Zealand Zespri Full time

About Zespri:


Zespri is the world's largest marketer of kiwifruit with over 800 people in New Zealand and throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.

We help people, communities and the environment thrive through the goodness of kiwifruit.

We sit at the heart of an interconnected industry working with 2,800 growers in New Zealand and 1,500 growers in Italy, France, Greece, South Korea and Japan.

We supply the world's healthiest little superfruits to people in more than 50 countries. We are fruit on a mission.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We commit to guardianship; putting people, the community, and the environment first. We are results-driven, challenging ourselves to grow and deliver better value. We cultivate personal connections, listening and acting with empathy and humility - and treating each other better for it.


We are growing quickly, driven by our success in engaging more and more consumers and by offering the world's best kiwifruit 12 months of the year.

We have bold ambitions and aim to grow sales from approximately $3 billion in 2018 to $4.5 billion by 2025.


To achieve our goals, we're empowering our people to achieve their goals, designing our work for wellbeing, through flexible work practices and self-leadership.


We have bold ambitions for the future and we want all of our people to live and perform at their best.


About The Role:

New Cultivar Fruit Performance Lead
This is a brand new role at Zespri, and a senior member of the New Cultivar Commercialisation team.

The successful trialling and commercialisation of new kiwifruit cultivars is a key pillar of Zespri's long-term growth, and its ability to continue to deliver to consumers the world's leading portfolio of kiwifruit 12-months of the year.


This role is pivotal in understanding and optimising the supply chain performance of new cultivars by understanding and optimising fruit performance in pre-commercial trials from which the outcomes inform robust commercialisation decisions.


You will work closely with the New Cultivar Commercialisation Manager and New Cultivar Commercialisation Lead and other key stakeholders across the industry in set up, coordination and execution of trials.

In the event of commercialisation, you will play a vital part in the transition of knowledge and understanding of fruit performance of a new cultivar from the precommercial trial environment to the commercial environment.

You may also be delegated to lead and drive the cross functional collaboration of new cultivar trials in New Zealand and international growing regions.


Accountabilities:

  • Lead precommercial fruit performance trials and support crossfunctional business/project requirements.
  • Develop and share expert knowledge of fruit performance, from maturity monitoring to performance through the supply chain including in market performance.
  • Develop systems and processes for understanding and reporting fruit performance
  • Drive accountability, improvements and effectiveness in data collection.
  • Effective participation in the trial assessment process.
  • Set up, coordination, execution and leading trials as delegated by the New Cultivar Commercialisation Manager.
  • Identify key stakeholders, establishing and maintaining strong working relationships.
  • Contribute to industry communications on trial and outcomes and guidance of fruit management.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • University degree in Science/Supply Chain or Business preferred.
  • Extensive technical industry experience in supply chain and/or trial environment.
  • Expert knowledge of kiwifruit supply chain performance.
  • Experience in working across teams and business units and with multiple stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead and influence people and manage resource to deliver outcomes.
  • Broad knowledge and experience within the horticultural export sector.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Willingness to work flexibly to lead or contribute to trials across time zones and the ability to travel.

What's In It For You:

  • Competitive overall remuneration package, including a Short-Term Incentive scheme opportunity.
  • FlexWELL flexible work ethos
  • Additional paid annual leave day per year (Zespri Day).
  • Additional paid volunteer day to volunteer within your community (Volunteer Time).
  • Global Life and Permanent Disability Insurance.
  • Group Medical Insurance benefits.

Agency:

  • Where Zespri requires the support of an agency to fulfil a vacancy, we will proactively seek this support from our network of Agencies. We respectfully ask that you do not contact Zespri or any of its affiliates/employees regarding vacancies, and reserve the right not to reply._
  • Zespri will not be responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions or other payments related to such unsolicited resumes._