Breeding Trialist Specialist

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, and directly perform and manage sowing, planting, and evaluating precommercial variety trials.
• To be a high impact team member by effectively collaborating with the 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 early stage, pre-commercial 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.
• 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

Must Have Requirements

• M.S. in Horticulture, Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Plant Genetics or a related field, or relevant crop related work experiences.
• Experience in varieties evaluations.
• Strong knowledge of statistics. Desirible experience using software such as Python, SQL, R Software, Minitab, SAS.
• 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 is ~ 80%.
• Intermediate English.

Be part of the Syngenta Experiential Group

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Dynamic and international environment.
• Modern, professional, safe and collaborative environment.
• State-of-the-art employment policies (eg flexible working, focus on goals).
• Individual development in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Important

Syngenta and its affiliated companies will never request any remuneration for participating in the processes that we publish on our job portal, nor on social networks or job boards with which Syngenta has an agreement.

Beyond believing in the power of diversity, the Syngenta Group promotes an inclusive culture that embraces differences in all their forms. Here I believe that the feeling of belonging allows people to be the best version of themselves, building an increasingly welcoming and productive environment.

All qualified individuals will be considered for our positions, without regard to race, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Be part of a leading company that brings the potential of plants to life.

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.