Drive Precision Breeding technology for Product Development for EMEA Crops
Provide technical leadership and insight to prioritize develop, implement and advance innovations into the pipeline and well as collaborate with product design and stakeholders on building seed & trait portfolio.
Drive Product Development breeding roadmap definition and pipeline engineering
Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
Lead pipeline engineering and breeding roadmap design for product development including the stage plan
Define and continuously improve breeding schemes and precision breeding to maximize realized genetic gain in the pipeline
Accountable for product development advancement decisions and managing the pipeline and pre-commercial portfolio by product concept partnering across functions for efficient deployment of product and solutions.
Lead advancement and implementation of traits in the product pipeline including the conversions
Drive cognitive pipeline analytics and AI models implementing data science and digital driven breeding pipeline using state of the art analytics of phenotypic and breeding data across locations and seasons.
Drive inbred and product diversity analytics and germplasm enhancement / global leverage program, lead the germplasm component of tailored solutions and diversity
Lead the definition of the selection criteria for Product Development and acceleration of advancements by product concept
Design germplasm evaluation (Nursery & Yield trials) and drive prescriptive testing for product development and production systems
Design the experimental for the pipeline, the stage plan for PDev, E2E breeding roadmaps, and the solutions engineering components
Design product and solutions concepts to create next generation products informed by genomic and phenomics insights
Develop and utilize latest breeding technologies to develop superior hybrids for market segments
Function as a key member of product units as needed to achieve clearly defined outcomes
Drive stakeholder engagement with MD, and commercial teams to ensure product delivery and launch effectiveness of new products
Key Working Relations:
Global Breeding Product Design
Global Breeding Product Development
Global & EMEA Breeding Capability centers
DSE
ARI
Commercial product Teams
Agronomic Excellence
Product supply
Qualifications & Competencies:
PhD with minimum of 4 years relevant experience, MS with minimum of 6 years relevant experience, BS with minimum of 10 years relevant experience. Demonstrated capabilities to develop, execute and evaluate complex programs
Quantitative genetics, Breeding and population genetics, Data scientist, Breeding workflow designers, Digital Skills, Programing, Data Analytics
High agility to respond to changing environments and adapt to new situations and work in a team
Effective verbal communication skills, essential to be fluent in English