Royal Cosun is a 125-year-old Dutch agricultural cooperative with 8,100 grower-members and 4,600+ employees producing plant-based food ingredients, animal feed, and biobased products across five operating businesses. The tech stack is almost entirely Microsoft ecosystem (365, Power Platform, Fabric, OneStream), and they're actively adopting Power Apps and Power Automate—a signal of internal digitization focused on low-code automation and business process consolidation. Active hiring leans heavily toward engineering and research roles, alongside concurrent projects to build an enterprise low-code platform and integrate data infrastructure, indicating a shift toward operational automation and cross-business standardization.
Notable leadership hires: Lead Scientist Advanced Process
Royal Cosun operates as an international cooperative of sugar beet growers headquartered in Breda, Netherlands. The organization spans five business units—Aviko, Cosun Beet Company, Cosun Protein, Duynie, and Sensus—supplying customers across food, feed, and industrial sectors with ingredients derived from plant biomass. Operations span Europe, Asia, and North America. The cooperative model means member growers are stakeholders in profitability and sustainability outcomes. Current operational focus includes reducing logistics costs, standardizing sourcing and contract management across divisions, improving research-to-market velocity for new products, and managing complexity in supply chain and resource allocation amid staffing constraints.
Microsoft-first: 365, Power Platform, Teams, SharePoint, Dataverse, Fabric, OneStream, and Power BI. Currently adopting Power Apps and Power Automate for workflow and process automation.
Enterprise low-code platform development, copilot agent integration, KPI dashboards for R&D, data integration across business units, logistics contract digitization, and manufacturing process research on plant-derived ingredients.
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