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Location
Bajio Zone (Dolores Hidalgo, Querétaro, Irapuato or surrounding areas) - Mexico
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Be part of R&D - Development team giving support to the Vegetables Seeds business. Through the values: Passion for Customers, How Matters and Determined Execution you will live and experience a critical role for our business, below the detail.
Role Purpose
- Breeding Trialist Specialist are key technical contributors, performing the testing, selection and advancement new vegetable seeds products.
- To work with commercial sales team and growers, directly perform and manage sowing, planting, and evaluating late-stage breeding variety trials, while being a high impact team member through effective collaboration with Market Segment, Commercial Sales, Breeding, and other Crop R&D Teams.
- To develop deep knowledge of key crops and regional markets and to build a strong network of dealer & grower collaborators.
- To evaluate crop product performance using synthesized information from analysis of trial data, from growers, and from industry feedback on their needs.
- To deliver recommendations for advancement and product placement of new varieties with high probability of success based on subject matter expertise and trial data analysis.
- To be an active adopter of high-throughput phenotyping technologies, data capture tools, robust analysis, and data-driven decision making.
Accountabilities
- Manage off-site trialing and deliver quality data, analysis, and recommendations to support advancement decisions.
- Find, place, sow, transplant, check, and evaluate late-stage breeding vegetable varieties on active farms. Work with growers, dealer partners, and greenhouse managers, to ensure continuity and prompt, professional communication with all collaborators.
- In collaboration with crop team colleagues, establish the number of trials and varieties tested to support commercial objectives.
- Develop and deliver yearly trial plans according to market segment strategies. Plan yearly resources allocations.
- Collect trial data in fields with Syngenta employees or third-party collaborators.
- In collaboration with commercial team colleagues, organize and lead Product Advancement Tours to present new product candidates for advancement.
- Track and deliver successful pipeline progress toward target product profiles.
- Partner with stakeholder groups to optimize trial designs and adopt new technologies to enhance quality, capacity, and/or efficiency of trialing program.
- Be responsible for the end-to-end trial, from seed shipment to variety advancement proposal.
- Use Syngenta tools for data storage, data collection, material tracking, and software for data analysis and data visualization.
- Be an owner and advocate for Biosafety, Health, Safety and Environment compliance and ethics, and the quality system requirements according to Syngenta internal standards.
- Contribute to achieving the company sustainability targets.
Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs.
Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions.
Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.
At Syngenta we are highly people focused – we look for professionals who are engaged, collaborative and excellent in execution. Leaders are expected to communicate effectively, develop teams and lead by example. Our industry and our function are changing rapidly so we are looking for new team members with a strong desire to develop themselves.
It is indispensable for this position:
- M.S. in Horticulture, Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Plant Genetics or a related field, or relevant crop related work experiences.
- Experience in plant variety trialing.
- Skill in effective communication for planning with internal and external stakeholders, and for summarizing experimental results to support conclusions and recommendations.
- Willingness to travel, with frequency changing through the year based on crop season. During main trialing season travel could be ~80-90%.
- Knowledge of statistics programs (Python, SQL, R Software) (mandatory)
- Intermediate English.
Preferred Requirements
- Knowledge of agronomy and growing techniques.
- Experience in working with growers and related companies or functions in the crop production or value chain.
- Knowledge about plant breeding and genetics.
- Understanding the vegetable market and crop specifications.
Be part of the Syngenta Experience
- Competitive salary and attractive benefits
- Dynamic and international environment
- Modern office environment and collaboration tools
- Forward thinking policies (e.g. remote working, career breaks)
- Support personal development in a diverse and inclusive environment
Important:
Beyond just believing in the power of diversity, Syngenta promotes an inclusive culture that includes differences in all its forms. We believe that the feeling of belonging allows people to become their best version, building an increasingly welcoming and productive environment.
All qualified candidates will be considered for our positions, without distinction of race, gender, age, nationality or disability.
* This position requires immediate job availability.
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