YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, North American Row Crop Production Research Associate, are to: 

• Have expertise in agronomy, entomology, weed science and/or related agricultural biological discipline;
• Support Safety and Health initiatives with site operation teams;
• Execute day to day coordination of lab/field tasks;
• Have the ability to plan, support and allocate routine workflow to other team members and contract employees;
• Be responsible for achieving operational excellence by executing high quality field research through collaboration with site operation teams to include alerting Lead of issues arising of seed inventory discrepancies, safety concerns, and plot quality data capture errors;
• Be responsible for specialized maintenance of Production Research field trials site level to include all research equipment;
• Assist with the Cross Crop and outside area research protocols supporting cotton, canola, soy as well as wheat geography selection;
• Have the ability to perform Site Responsible Researcher (SRR) duties ensuring adherence to regulated and stewardship processes and protocols that are completed accurately and timely, this includes field monitoring, communication and documentation of activities;
• Train and participate in the development of people resources and talent at the site;
• Include Interns/Coops, New Research Associates and contract employees;
• Have the ability to learn and apply scientific methods and non-routine techniques for analysis as directed by Cross Crop Lead, protocols and work instructions to deliver quality results based on data collection matrix;
• Record metrics such as key process indicators (KPIs) to help drive continuous process improvements and provide feedback to Leads on suggestions to achieve improved benchmarks from growing season to growing season;
• Create, edit, and perform document review ensuring all protocols are accurate and in compliance with the Quality Management System;
• Coordinate training and competency checks to new associates and other personnel;
• Assist in stakeholder interactions to address questions, concerns, and research needs, under direction of Cross Crop Lead, (Seed Production, Market Development, Breeding and R&D);
• Provide support on IT tools/apps/equipment to the Scientist to ensure that data is tracked a recorded properly and that applications are meeting requirements of the Production Research teams;
• Develop networking opportunities with other teams at site level (to include St. Louis) to foster collaboration relationships that will allow implementation of new technologies that can drive operational efficiencies.

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:

• Bachelor’s degree with at least four years of experience or Master’s degree with at least one year in Agricultural research, or Ag technical field;
• Excellent people, managerial and organizational skills;
• Excellent communication – oral, written, under diverse circumstances and audiences;
• Results driven and capacity to influence within a matrixed organization and across functions;
• Dynamic leadership and interpersonal skills;
• Demonstrated success in managing agronomic research programs;
• Demonstrated attention to detail, results orientation;
• Adept at utilizing productivity software (MS Office, JMP);
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of time.