YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Breeder - Watermelon, are to:

• Manage a breeding pipeline from population creation through late stage pre-commercial phases to evaluate and advance the highest performing germplasm aligned with commercial product concepts for diverse global markets;
• Drive development and implementation of new breeding and phenotyping strategies, technologies, advancement and deployment strategies, operational processes, and digital capabilities;
• Integrate data science throughout the breeding process to enable a cognitive decision-making workflow and drive automation of downstream operations;
• Collaborate and align product development strategy with Product Management, Market Development, and sales organization in the area;
• Foster strong collaborative relationships with enabling teams to deliver a robust pipeline and ensure meaningful knowledge transfer during pipeline hand-offs;
• Develop people by working closely with research station management to fully participate in staff development;
• Act as leader and mentor to discovery breeding, plant pathology, and cell biology projects and teams;
• Act as focal point for Watermelon vis a vis to supporting functions such as Product Supply, Seed Production, Precision Genomics (molecular labs), Regulatory, and Intellectual Property;
• Participate in cross-functional crop teams (Product Development, Market Development, and Sales).

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Must have a PhD with minimum of 6 years relevant experience or an MS with minimum of 10 years relevant experience.

• Strong background in plant breeding, quantitative genetics, experimental design, statistical analysis or data science;
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively and leading and influencing activities of cross-functional teams to achieve common goals;
• Ability to lead and influence key stakeholders through challenges and opportunities;
• Ability to facilitates solutions;
• Results oriented with demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects/priorities;
• Familiarity with data science and computer programming, and a demonstrated ability to perform data analysis with large data sets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Agricultural Science, Genetics, Crop Science, or Product Management;
• Experience with automated phenotyping/remote sensing and the interpretation of imaging data.
   
   

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