IT at KWS

Who we are and what we do

We are one of the world's leading seed producers focusing on plant breeding, production, and sales of seeds for agricultural crops. More than 5,000 employees represent KWS in over 70 countries. About Us

Sounds like a quite traditional business? In fact, progress is our tradition. We use cutting-edge plant breeding methods to help solve the problem of feeding the world's rapidly growing population. Furthermore, confronted with climate change and stagnating arable land, we are constantly striving for sustainable products for competitive farming in a healthy environment.New challenges demand new solutions – that‘s why we invest a significant amount of our net sales each year in our research and development activities.

Family-owned, independent, and with a straight focus on seeds only – that’s KWS.

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IT and Agriculture?

At first glance, that doesn't seem to go together, but actually at KWS this combination is a key part of our progress. Just a few examples of how our IT moves us forward in the search for solutions:

Our entire organisation is based on modern IT infrastructure.
The IT teams of KWS support our business units
SAP is our ERP system and currently we are rolling out SAP S/4 Hana.

R&D needs IT.

Automation, AI and big data are now central elements of modern agriculture and breeding. In particular our research department needs qualified IT experts to analyse and evaluate large amounts of data generated in digital processes or to develop specific software for our R&D teams using agile methods like Scrum or Kanban.

For that we use technologies like Azure DevOps, ASP.NET Core, MOQ, .NET BLAZOR, Visual Code Studio, git, kubernetes, CHEF, PostSQL, R# and many more.

Find out more about some of the exciting projects driven by our data specialists.

Some exciting R&D IT projects:

Robots are the new environmentalists

To avoid the use of pesticides, KWS is developing state-of-the-art robotic systems that remove weeds from the fields.

Higher yields from outer space

KWS is working on satellite technology that precisely shows farmers how much seed should be sown and where..

Ready for take off

KWS uses drones to produce new seed variants even faster.

Our jobs in IT

SAP Inhouse Consultants
Business Intelligence Consultant
Salesforce Inhouse Consultant
Digital Farming Inhouse Consultant
Supply Chain Inhouse Consultant

Product Owner
Software developer
Bio Informatics
Bio Statistics
Data Science / AI
R&D-IT Infrastructure Experts

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Meet some of our colleagues:

Meet Thomas - Head of Global Research & Services

Thomas is our Head of Global Research & Services and talks about where IT plays an important role within an agricultural company. Spoiler alert: Everywhere! Watch this video to learn more.

Meet Ligia - Head of Digital Field Technology & Data

Ligia is our Head of Digital Field Technology & Data. Data in R&D is everywhere and she explains how IT can help managing the masses of data created in our R&D departments.

Meet Nora - Research Technician Digital Field

Nora is Research Technician Digital Field and for her it's all about drones, images and data, supporting our researchers with digital phenotyping of our crops in the field.

Meet Jens: CIO of KWS Group

Jens is our CIO and responsible for KWS Group's entire commercial IT. He gives a short summary of the IT at KWS and showing some highlights we are proud of but also challenges we are facing.

Meet Matthias - Head of Expert Hubs IT Infrastructure

Matthias is our Head of IT Infrastructure, Security and Service Management. He together with his team ensures that all digital services are available for our KWS colleagues around the world even to the fields. Flexibilty plays a big role in his everyday work.

Meet Claudia - Global Process IT Expert Customer Service

Claudia is one of our Global Process IT Experts Customer Service at KWS and talks about benefits of working in an international team and the task of communicating between IT-Experts and Non-IT colleagues.

Meet Daniel - Software Developer

Daniel is one of our Software Developers and builds, develops and creates software for our breeding departments. He talks about having the flexibility to work when and where he wants as long as the job is done.

Meet Marion - Expert IT Applications Customer Service

Marion is one of our IT Application Customer Service Experts. She is the connecting link between internal and external customers within IT at KWS. For her, working at KWS feels like being part of a family.

People at KWS

"KWS offers great work-life balance. After 10 years working for KWS, my overtime account is only on a low 2 digit number."

Steffen Schütte, Group Lead Software Engineering