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Lettuce Breeder

Location: Sant’Agata Bolognese (BO), Italy

Success tastes better together

Nunhems®, a business of Bayer, is a global specialist in vegetable seeds. With more than 1600 employees and a portfolio of 2500 varieties in 28 vegetable crops, we are presents in all major vegetable areas in the world.

For our site in Sant’Agata Bolognese (BO), we are looking for a Breeder, Lettuce.

Your role:

You will be responsible for the development of commercially successful varieties for Lettuce and present the technological image of Nunhems by designing and executing a process of continuous variety creation and development.

Major Accountabilities:

  • Optimize efficiency and output of the breeding program by developing and implementing new technologies and breeding methods within the crop improvement process
  • Identify promising results from different fields of research and integrate them in the breeding program
  • Propose and inform the management on long and short term crop specific breeding strategy as well as participate in development activities of specific crop strategic plans
  • Translate market requirements and future needs along with Marketing and Sales into breeding goals to produce new products
  • Prepare implement and monitor specified crop budgets and operational plans
  • Manage, support and direct the breeding team personnel in alignment with Nunhems corporate values and vision

Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

  • PhD in Genetics / Plant Breeding with a minimum of two years of experience. Lettuce experience preferred.
  • In depth working knowledge of horticulture, agronomy, genetics, pathology, statistics, physiology and molecular genetics
  • Experience and skills:
  • Management and budgeting
  • Team player
  • Project management
  • Organization and planning
  • Computer skills (data management, management information systems, databases, spread sheets, statistical software)
  • Must be able to work independently
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Functional Competencies: analytical thinking, convincing, solving problems, innovation, entrepreneurship

Application and information

To submit a new résumé for this posting, please visit www.nunhems.it

For more information you can contact:

Mrs. Domenica Larocca
HR Country Manager
Phone + 390516817424
E-mail domenica.larocca@bayer.com 

or

Mr. Johan Warringa
Head of Breeding EuMEA
Nunhems Netherlands B.V.
Tel. +(0)475 599 106
johan.warringa@bayer.com

 

More positions from: Nunhems Italia S.R.L.

Posted from January 21, 2014 until July 21, 2014
SeedQuest reference number: 44569

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the country where the position is located.
 
 
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