Pre-Breeder, Pepper
Location: Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy Bayer CropScience Vegetable Seeds, the global business unit within Bayer CropScience is a global specialist in vegetable seeds. We are dedicated to developing innovative genetics and related services and building unique customer relationships.
With more than 1600 employees and a portfolio of 2500 varieties in 28 vegetable crops, we are present in all major vegetable areas in the world.
For our site in Sant’Agata Bolognese (BO), we are looking for a Pre-Breeder, Pepper (m/f).
Job description
You will be responsible to lead in a structured way the trait- and pre-breeding activities in pepper.
These activities will support the mainstream breeding in three ways:
- Developing gene pools with specific traits.
- Developing the molecular tools to transfer traits into the breeding program.
- Developing genetic knowledge to improve selection efficiency.
Your qualifications
- PhD in plant breeding or genetics
- In depth working knowledge of horticulture, agronomy, genetics, pathology, statistics, physiology, and molecular genetics.
- Project management, data analysis, data management
- Population development, experimental design, phenotyping
- Experience in working with multi gene traits.
- Must be able to communicate well with peers to develop common projects.
- Must be able to manage several projects at the same time.
- Willing to travel to places of interest for the pre-breeding;
- Creative, pragmatic, consistent and persistent.
- Good communicative and interpersonal skills; team player.
- Client focused and result driven.
- Feeling for the marketing aspects related to downstream customers.
- Able to translate customers problems into novel genetic solutions.
- Analytical thinking, innovative and problem solving.
- Fluency in English is a must.
To submit a new résumé for this posting, please go to www.nunhems.it
More positions from: BASF Vegetable Seeds Posted from March 30, 2015 until September 30, 2015 SeedQuest reference number: 61073 |