Case study
Limagrain
Commercial Director
Opportunity
With their UK Head Office in North Lincolnshire, Limagrain is one of the world’s leading seed breeding businesses. The business has a formidable reputation with an enviable range of high performing crop varieties.
As a result of our deep understanding of the Agriculture sector, Limagrain selected Eden Search to support them in finding and appointing a new Commercial Director to head up their established Commercial team. The role was focussed on developing the strategic outlook for the business and delivering long term and sustainable sales growth.
“Working with the Eden team has been a great experience. They took the time to get to know us as individuals, a business and our culture. We felt listened to throughout the process and the calibre of candidates put forward to us was excellent. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with Eden again in the future.”
Katie George ,
Limagrain Field Seeds
Our approach
Eden Search met with several Limagrain stakeholders, in order to fully understand the impact of the new role on the business.
This included other members of the Senior Leadership Team, but also their future reports.
It was very clear, that the incoming Commercial Director would need to be able to manage 2 distinct teams, one focussed on direct to farm sales and another on distributor sales.
The business boasts a very close working relationship across all internal departments, so the culture was very high on the selection criteria as well. Eden set out to identify the best passive and active candidates within the UK Agribusiness sector, with a strong focus on professionals with experience within seed breeding and/or seed distribution. This initial approach yielded a strong longlist of talent who were very engaged in the overall selection process and ultimately lead to Eden presenting a shortlist of 4 high quality candidates.
The results
After an extensive interview process, Limagrain selected a standout candidate whose personality shone out but also had prior experience within
Seed Breeding. This marks an exciting time for the business with a lot of opportunities to capitalise
on. We wish them both every success.