Global seed breeder and agri-food processor scaling operations across 53 countries
Limagrain is a 9,500-person agricultural cooperative and seed company operating across breeding, production, and agri-food processing in 53 countries. The tech stack skews heavily toward enterprise ERP (Oracle, JD Edwards), BI (Power BI, QlikView, MicroSQL), and Microsoft productivity tools—typical of capital-intensive operations managing supply chains and farmer networks. Hiring is accelerating across engineering, sales, and data roles in parallel with active projects around warehouse management, carbon tracking, and zero-trust security, suggesting modernization of legacy systems to handle climate-adaptive varietal development and tighter operational cost control.
Notable leadership hires: Head of HR, Head of agronomic production, Head of Finance, Legal & Compliance Director
Limagrain breeds, produces, and sells high-value field and vegetable seeds while operating agri-food transformation businesses that process output from 1,300 cooperative farmer members. The company ranks as the 4th largest seed company globally and generated €2.45 billion in sales (2022–2023) plus €775 million from strategic partner collaborations. Parent cooperative roots run deep in France's Auvergne region, but the business is structurally international, with significant seed and agri-food operations spanning multiple continents. The organization balances traditional agricultural expertise—varietal trials, field testing, agronomic production oversight—with modern supply-chain complexity, including warehouse automation and climate-risk management across distributed farming networks.
Enterprise backbone: Oracle, JD Edwards ERP, Power BI, QlikView. Data/analytics: SQL, Python, GCP, Fivetran, Terraform. Applications: .NET, Angular, Flutter, Power Apps, Power Automate. Operations: GPS, Siemens, Schneider Electric industrial controls.
Approximately 9,500 employees working across 53 countries, with parent cooperative based in Saint-Beauzire, France.
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