Associate Scientist

Job description

As an Associate Scientist, you will play a pivotal role bridging R&D Crop Team Leadership and field operations teams, ensuring seamless project execution and high-quality data management in our plant breeding programs. This position serves as the backbone of our research initiatives, coordinating complex trials and maintaining critical relationships between breeding, genetics, traits, and field operations teams to drive innovation in crop development.

Duties:

• Lead end-to-end trial management, including data collection, analysis, and storage from discovery through late-stage trialing phases.
• Coordinate field and greenhouse testing activities, managing crop processes from sowing to harvest while ensuring adherence to seed health prevention measures.
• Drive marker-assisted selection programs by orchestrating seed/tissue sampling, laboratory coordination, and subsequent field activities.
• Manage comprehensive seed logistics, including production, inventory management, and transfer protocols in compliance with internal regulations.
• Provide technical expertise and data-driven insights to support variety advancement decisions and project reporting.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with external cooperators while staying current with emerging technologies and techniques in plant breeding.

Company Description

At Syngenta Vegetable Seeds, we're passionate about helping people in the vegetable industry succeed and putting growers at the heart of all that we do. Our energies are focused on creating solutions that help them get more out of their crops, now and in the future. A commitment in every seed. We do this by protecting seed, bulbs, or small plant quality from the start to enable growers to achieve the highest yield potentials in their operations; continually investing in R&D to bring cutting-edge innovations to the market; and striving to make a real-world difference through more sustainable practices on farms, in shipping, and at the grocery store.

Qualifications

• BSc (required, w/ 3-5 yrs experience)/MSc (preferred) degree in genetics, plant breeding, or plant sciences.
• Current knowledge of agronomy, genetics, and breeding.
• Basic knowledge of trial design, data management, data analysis and statistics; ability to manage and analyze large data sets.
• Good knowledge of agronomic techniques, plant cultivation and crop handling relevant to the assigned crop.

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.

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Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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