Agronomist* Member of the Management 80-100%

The LAVEBA Cooperative is the Eastern Swiss trade and service provider behind well-known brands such as LANDI, AGROLA, UFA and LAVEBA Shop. For over 125 years, we have been at the service of our members and customers. Around 700 employees shape our company in the areas of retail, agriculture, energy and real estate.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for you as

Agronomist*

• Purchasing with foresight: You monitor national and international procurement markets, recognise opportunities early and then purchase when quantity, price and demand align.
• Negotiating with impact: You conduct supplier discussions convincingly, secure attractive conditions and further develop sustainable partnerships.
• Keeping stock levels under control: You manage quantities, stock coverage and availability proactively with regard to demand, turnover and capital commitment.
• Managing logistics in a networked way: You coordinate logistics across the group, consolidate transports and storage capacities, thereby leveraging synergies within the network.
• Advising customers actively: You advise farmers, contractors and LANDI competently, reliably and with a clear understanding of their business.
• Connecting market and customers: You translate market movements and customer needs into concrete purchasing and management decisions.

• Proximity to the agricultural market: You know the needs of agriculture and ideally have an established agricultural network.
• Enjoyment of procurement markets: You enjoy purchasing, have a good sense of markets and timing, and the courage to make well-founded decisions.
• Negotiation skills: You argue clearly, act entrepreneurially and consistently bring negotiations to a close.
• Analytical perspective: You combine numerical understanding and structured working with pragmatic implementation strength.
• Reliable personality: Personal responsibility, resilience, integrity and loyalty are a matter of course for you.
• Solid professional foundation: Degree as Agronomist ETH/FH or a comparable university qualification, alternatively Agrotechnician HF or Agricultural Merchant HF with several years of experience in agricultural trade.

• Influence instead of routine: An exciting key role in the senior management of the LAVEBA Cooperative, where your decisions have a direct impact on assortments, prices and availability.
• Entrepreneurial scope: A lot of personal responsibility in a dynamic market environment with short communication channels and varied tasks.
• Strong environment: A motivated team that supports you, shares knowledge and wants to progress together.
• Ideal conditions: A company car and a smartphone for private use as well as attractive fringe benefits such as 10% discount in all sales outlets of LAVEBA LANDI AG.

For questions, please contact:
Peter Sprecher, Head of Agriculture, Telephone 058 400 66 79, peter.sprecher@laveba.ch

Are you ready to advise our customers competently, recognise sales potential and help shape agricultural trade entrepreneurially? Then we look forward to receiving your online application.