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Crop Specialist: Tomatoes
@ Rijk Zwaan
Leamington, Ontario
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Overview
Rijk Zwaan is hiring a Crop Specialist: Tomatoes based in or near Leamington, Ontario, to support greenhouse tomato customers across North America. The role covers technical support, customer relationships, and local trial planning, with a permanent full-time contract, travel to other provinces, the USA and occasionally Europe, and benefits including vision, dental, life insurance and pension matching.
Responsibilities:
- Provide feedback on tomato strategy to breeders and crop teams
- Develop relationships with key greenhouse tomato customers
- Provide technical support to growers
- Lead local planning and trial assessment for greenhouse tomatoes
- Collaborate with crop specialists on account management
Requirements summary:
- Ag-business or AgriScience degree
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience
- Experience in vegetable seed business preferred
- Track record of assessing crop and customer needs
- Strong analytical and persuasive communication skills
- Self-starter able to manage own goals
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-12
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Sales |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: moderate · ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | AgriBusiness, AgriScience |
| Perks mentioned | Retirement plan, Wellness, Paid training |
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Job description
Marketing & Sales
Bachelor, Master
In the new role as Crop Specialist based or nearby Leamington Ontario you service existing and new tomato-focused greenhouse customers in North America. You provide customer service, and technical support in the region for the greenhouse business.
Your job at Rijk Zwaan
As Crop Specialist: Tomatoes you fulfill an essential role in the strategic product management, technical support, commercial introduction, and coordination of greenhouse tomato activities in North America.
Additionally, you are responsible for:
As a Crop Specialist you are dedicated to advancing our tomato crop portfolio and to maintaining the ethics of the company. You take the initiative easily and you have a commercial and client-focused approach.
As a Crop Specialist, you can think strategically and have good analytical skills. Team-player with persuasive communication skills, an independent self-starter with the ability to set your own goals and agenda, and to manage your own progress towards those goals in a structured way. You are enthusiastic about horticulture and keep track of the latest developments in the horticultural industry.
In addition, the ideal candidate would possess:
You will join the team in the new role. This means that you will have a chance to use your creativity and innovation.
Furthermore, we are happy to offer you:
Rijk Zwaan is an international family-owned company with a people-oriented culture. Rijk Zwaan is at the beginning of the food chain. We develop vegetable and fruit varieties and sell the seeds to growers and other chain partners all over the world. We make an important contribution to the world food supply.
Rijk Zwaan Canada is located in Leamington Ontario; however, there will be travel to other provinces in Canada, USA and occasional travel to Europe required.
Bachelor, Master
In the new role as Crop Specialist based or nearby Leamington Ontario you service existing and new tomato-focused greenhouse customers in North America. You provide customer service, and technical support in the region for the greenhouse business.
Your job at Rijk Zwaan
As Crop Specialist: Tomatoes you fulfill an essential role in the strategic product management, technical support, commercial introduction, and coordination of greenhouse tomato activities in North America.
Additionally, you are responsible for:
- Providing feedback on Tomato Strategy to Breeders, Crop Coordinators, and Crop Teams.
- Developing and sustaining strong, ethical, and personable relationships with key customers; addressing needs and establishing effective and innovative solutions for our clients.
- Collaborating with Crop Specialists and Crop Teams with follow-up and account management activities.
- Providing technical support to growers by clearly understanding their needs.
- Identifying and developing new opportunities by leading the local planning, assessment of trials, and collaboration on decisions for greenhouse tomatoes.
As a Crop Specialist you are dedicated to advancing our tomato crop portfolio and to maintaining the ethics of the company. You take the initiative easily and you have a commercial and client-focused approach.
As a Crop Specialist, you can think strategically and have good analytical skills. Team-player with persuasive communication skills, an independent self-starter with the ability to set your own goals and agenda, and to manage your own progress towards those goals in a structured way. You are enthusiastic about horticulture and keep track of the latest developments in the horticultural industry.
In addition, the ideal candidate would possess:
- A completed Ag-business degree, in the field of AgriBusiness or AgriScience.
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience. Experience within the vegetable seed business is highly preferred
- Demonstrated track record of experience in proactively assessing, clarifying, and validating crop & customer needs on an ongoing basis.
- A collaborative nature with both internal and external stakeholders to include communicating across diverse cultures and inspiring trust at all levels.
You will join the team in the new role. This means that you will have a chance to use your creativity and innovation.
Furthermore, we are happy to offer you:
- A permanent contract from the start.
- Good salary based on job level and experience.
- Various training opportunities through our Rijk Zwaan Academy.
- A good work and life balance.
- An entrepreneurial / innovative work environment with constantly new challenges.
- A team with motivated colleagues.
- Excellent benefits: Vision, Dental, Orthodontics and Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Health Care Spending Account, family fitness benefit, and pension matching.
Rijk Zwaan is an international family-owned company with a people-oriented culture. Rijk Zwaan is at the beginning of the food chain. We develop vegetable and fruit varieties and sell the seeds to growers and other chain partners all over the world. We make an important contribution to the world food supply.
Rijk Zwaan Canada is located in Leamington Ontario; however, there will be travel to other provinces in Canada, USA and occasional travel to Europe required.
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