YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Scientist II Trait Deployment Technology, are to: 

• Support the design, development, implementation and execution of technical projects required for design and development of pipeline and operations improvements aligned with the overarching strategy within the region;
• Support implementation of Precision Breeding Technical innovations within the region;
• Lead multi-function teams across North America to support innovation projects for Precision Breeding with a key focus on driving genetic gain and product performance through digital transformation and new technology development and deployment;
• Support the Health Safety and Environment, Compliance, Business Conduct and Human Rights policies and culture;
• Research and technology development in key areas enabling genome editing and trait deployment in soy, corn or other row crops;
• Collaborate across teams to test value-added concepts or enabling technologies that leverage knowledge gained thru experiments;
• Be responsible for scientifically advance plant biology innovations and/or solve critical challenges in the areas of genome and reproductive systems;
• Be responsible for research design, execution and analysis to enable high quality data-driven decisions;
• Be responsible for organizing, documenting and reporting research outcomes in a timely manner;
• Be responsible for partner with patent science to capture IP and secure FTO for novel concepts;
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary scientists across the organization to develop new concepts and implement research outcomes in a region or crop pipeline;
• Be accountable to provide project and technical leadership through matrix relationships;
• Be accountable to make progress towards key project milestones while communicating timely status updates and any challenges or revisions to planned next steps;
• Actively troubleshoot and problem-solve to optimize research procedures;
• Travel to regional sites, business meetings and external conferences to develop business relationships and understanding of leading-edge technologies.

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:

• Ph.D. with at least three years of relevant experience OR M.S. with at least five years relevant experience OR B.S. with at least seven years of relevant experience;
• Conduct research and contribute to research projects, technologies, publications, intellectual property or trade secrets;
• Design, conduct and interpret complex experiments;
• Develop and implement research and/or technology-driven proposals;
• Primary author for scientific reports;
• Effectively communicates research findings;
• Assume project leadership and/or supervisory functions;
• Applies defined scientific principles to solve complex scientific problems;
• Exploit new developments from the scientific literature to aid in problem solving;
• Demonstrate a sustained high level of technical skill and achievement;
• Keep abreast of new science and technological developments and exploit them to continuously improve functional area capabilities;
• Foster team-based approach to research.
• Interact with colleagues in other functions and other departments to solve problems.