Nursery seed production specialist

Role purpose

• Responsible for execution of nursery, parental line purification and trials seed production activity delivery per crop on sites.
• Ensures that seeds of new lines and varieties are delivered in requested quantity and quality meeting timelines and budget targets.

Accountabilities

• Execute nursery and seed production operations within an NSP unit under the supervision of the Technical Support Manager.
• Manage leaf & seed sampling of nursery and trial materials.
• Implement nursery seed production plans and protocols.
• Demonstrate agility by working across various NSPP unit activities.
• Execute nursery activities including:
  • Planting
  • Maintenance
  • Selfing/pollination
  • Harvest
  • Seed processing according to protocols
• Provide operational support to trials as needed.
• Foster collaboration between breeding teams and R&D supporting functions, including: Molecular breeding technologies, Data science, Phenomics, Pathology, Trait introgression, Double haploids
• Develop and optimize local operational resources and infrastructure.
• Review, improve, audit, and ensure compliance with research procedures.
• Collect and enter data into the system.
• Ensure implementation of SOPs in nursery and trial activities.
• Meet quality and quantity standards aligned with stakeholder needs, including Planning, Cost management & Quality control

Syngenta Seeds
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.

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Master’s degree in agriculture and related subjects
• Agronomic knowledge of corn crops and breeding processes is preferable
• Training in principles of leadership and effective management practices
• Good communication skills

Critical experience

• Minimum of 6 to8 years of experience in small scale seed production, farm operation and agronomy in corn field crops.
• Experience in technical service delivery
• Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities:
• Ability to work within a team and individually
• Ability to think and plan strategically
• Ability to communicate clearly at all organizational levels
• Ability to set priorities 

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

Critical leadership capabilities

• Leadership and multicultural people management
• Teamwork and excellent across function interaction
• Customer focus - Plays important role
• Decisive - Essential
• Communicative - Very much essential
• Trusted - Essential
• Team oriented – Essential
• Result oriented: Very much essential

People are at the heart of what we do: 

• Once a year Full body check 
• Competitive insurance scheme 
• Employee assistance program – to take care of your and your loved ones mental health 
• Paid Vacation of 30days, 12 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, compassionate leaves
• Education assistance – for your career growth 
• People first culture translated into ‘Most Preferred place to work 2022-23 by Times group’

Note: Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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