Job Openings 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 

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Role Description:

• The Agronomic Research Specialist (ARS) is an individual contributor and part of a self-guided team executing Field-Testing operations to generate data for downstream breeding decisions for product advancement and design.
• Responsible for a network of participatory managed Maize testing operations including network planning, seed preparation, precision planting, harvesting and trait data collection with research grade equipment.
• Investigate and support the deployment of new technologies in automation and sensing for plant trait data collection. Interprets and analyzes crop data.  
• The ARS is part of the Breeding Evaluate team and reports to the Regional Head of Field-Testing and will be attached to a Breeding site.

Role Purpose:

• Product evaluation: Responsible for the design and execution of a network of in-house and participatory managed Field-testing locations for the testing of Genotype × Environment × Management interactions.
• Cooperator engagement: Contact for farmer-cooperators in their network of trials.  
• Technology Deployment: Implementation of innovative technologies designed to enhance phenotyping, such as use of geospatial systems, advanced planting and harvesting equipment, automated data capture and software systems, climatic and soil sensor instrumentation, aerial imagery applications, and digital operational management.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Independently responsible for site selection, grower relationships, workflow planning and execution, and recording of all field management practices relevant to cropping system.
• Organize planting, plot management, data collection and harvest operations of maize trials in alignment with Breeding objectives.
• Operating research equipment like planters, tractors, combines and sensing devices for testing purposes.
• Plan and execute work activities in collaboration with operations coach, peers and other stakeholders to enable optimal resource use across the entire country testing network.
• Organize and execute day-to-day priorities associated with data collection at sites, alone or as a leader of small teams.
• Take ownership for timely data delivery, trial quality, data quality checking and achievement of overall team data quality targets using organizational data reporting and visualization platforms.  
• Assign work in area of responsibility to contract/ seasonal workers, lead process improvements in safety/compliance/plot quality monitor and acquire field and equipment supplies.
• Provide on-site training and supervision of temporary/ seasonal employees and junior staff on standard operating procedures in area of responsibility.
• Travel up to 50% of the time particularly during peak seasons, to ensure data delivery for key product advancement deadlines and supervision of field activities.
• Creating a culture of safety, quality, and compliance through active participation and adherence to all ESH initiatives in the region.

Key Working Relation:

• Evaluate team (peers), Create team (Scientists & Seed Production), Farmer cooperators and Logistics team.  

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:

• BSc in Agronomy, Crop Science, Breeding, or related fields with at least 3+ years relevant experience or, MSc in relevant field with 1 year experience through previous employment, or academic experience.
• OR College Diploma and minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a technology-based field-testing environment
• Proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Broad knowledge and experience with agricultural equipment and row crop production practices and history of leveraging that knowledge in a research environment.
• Knowledge of crop production, crop protection, farming practices and equipment management.
• Basic understanding and passion for emerging trends in agriculture.
• Strong competency with MS-Office software products and statistical systems (desired) used in scientific data analysis, with ability to quickly learn new software programs and tools.
• Excellent data management, acquisition, organization, analysis and presentation skills.
• Flexibility in an agile work environment.
• Good communication (English) and influencing skills.
• Excellent personal interaction skills and leadership capabilities.