Product Development Scientist at Bayer

Main Purpose: 

• 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
• Strong project management skills managing complex, multi-faceted projects resulting in measurable success
• Strong ability in building cross-functional partnerships and influence others to drive results and innovation with customer-centricity
• Demonstration of application VACC competencies
• Drivers license