In our family firm, people take centre stage Every day, we get great satisfaction in developing healthy and appealing vegetable and fruit varieties. We sell our seeds to growers worldwide.
Seeds at the start of the food chain
Rijk Zwaan develops high-quality fruit and vegetable varieties for the professional agri-food sector. As an independent family-owned company, we operate globally in over 100 countries. With more than 30 different crops and over 2,000 varieties, we provide high-quality seeds to growers worldwide. Our aim is to offer a wide range of fruit and vegetable varieties, whether for high-tech greenhouse, protected cultivation or open-field farming.
Excellent results are achieved with a collaborative approach
A great deal of knowledge and expertise is required to make new vegetable and fruit varieties. Our Rijk Zwaan colleagues work closely together to support our breeding programmes and innovation projects. We continue the same collaborative approach with our external partners. We cooperate with research institutes and universities, growers, salad processors and retail, who share our values and ambition, of sharing a healthy future.
Basically we are looking for people in different area’s of expertise such as IT, Supply Chain and Production & Logistics. People who thrive at Rijk Zwaan are often hands-on professionals with ideas. They work together, enjoy helping colleagues succeed, and are energized by improving, innovating, and collaborating.
Our goal:
Rijk Zwaan’s primary goal is to offer employees an enjoyable and sustainable job with good terms and conditions of employment. We provide a motivating and informal working atmosphere. Our colleagues enjoy working together and are entrepreneurial, loyal, motivated and committed.
Rijk Zwaan has a diverse team. We find it important that all employees feel at home and can develop themselves, regardless of age, life stage, length of service, physical disability, gender, sexual orientation, or origin. We treat each other with respect. We do not tolerate harassment, aggression, violence, bullying, or discrimination. Through education and satisfaction surveys, we pay attention to this. From the Netherlands to Brazil and from Japan to Tanzania. Everyone can be themselves and shares the same feeling: ‘We are Rijk Zwaan
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