YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, North America Varietal Pipeline Quality Scientist, are to: 

• Develop and deploy shared metrics with partners to assess, monitor, and improve product performance, genetic diversity, and seed/trait quality of the North America varietal breeding pipelines;
• Enable accessible and high-quality genomic data for effective genome wide selection training, haplotype mining and gaining new genomic insights;
• Work across groups to ensure proper capture of germplasm intellectual property on confidential and proprietary research and development efforts;
• Present compelling, validated stories to different levels of organization, including peers, senior management, and internal customers to drive both strategic and operational changes in business.

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:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree with at least five years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree with at least two years of relevant experience OR PhD;
• Education or applied experience in at least one of the following:  Breeding, Genetics, Computational Biology or related field;
• Experience in data analysis and statistical learning using R, python, or other programming languages, and basic understanding of software development best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Multidisciplinary experience in plant breeding and data science.

Domestic relocation may be offered for this role.

Sponsorship may be avialable for this role.