Description

The Mexico Seed Production Research and Characterization is responsible for:

• Support seeds production teams within México by providing technical guidance and recommendations.
• Support global production research team to leverage tools and functionalities based on perspectives from México.
• Identify key business opportunities to be prioritized and establish action plans to deliver results that meet the identified demands.
• Data collection from seed fields and Parent Characterization trials.
• Share best practices within Latin America region and globally.
• Attend meetings that aim to create and review production plans and advocate for producibility risk assessment and product allocation.
• Deploy seedsman ship capabilities for country seed field agronomists - including sharing best practices from other regions in and outside México.
• Train and facilitate implementation of functionalities from digital tools: Blueprint, EDGE, ProMap, Seed Pro, SPIN; as well as drone and satellite imagery view and analysis.
• Drive initiatives to reduce COGS, improve seed quality and enable Seed Production team to be a reliable supplier.

Location: Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico Activities

• Capture demands from Seed Production and Supply Chain (SPSC) teams.
• Plan activities that meet SPSC needs in México.
• Visit and scout seed fields to understand product performance and outputs from recommendations.
• Organize available data and provide planting recommendations - mostly focus on nick, budget yield, herbicide sensitiveness, plant population, row ratio, preferrable growing areas, primary planting dates, disease sensitiveness, and watch outs for the products.
• Support product advancement meetings by data analysis and provide solutions thru a data driven perspective.
• Leverage best practices across teams and establish control plans to make sure results will be properly implemented.
• Support Parent Characterization efforts to ensure experiment placement, data collection, SPSC strategy representativeness, data input into systems (Pacman, PRISM).
• Support to standardize regional and global Production Research strategies in México.
• Need to provide reliable and complete data to support seed production in México.
• Interact with other regions and countries to get to know better the products that will be produced to export..

Qualifications

• Undergraduate in Agronomy.
• Minimum 5 years Seed Production experience - corn crop.
• Statistics data analysis knowledge and statistical software experience (R, SAS, Minitab, JMP).
• Good knowledge in MS-Office - especially MS-Excel.
• Communication and relationship skills.
• Travel availability for frequent travels with appropriate driver's license.
• Availability to set home address close to Culiacán, México.

Desirable Requirements:

• Previous experiences on corn and seed production practices.
• Desirable to be a person with high curiosity and innovative mindset.
• Willing to overcome obstacles and find out solutions.
• English, at least, intermediate level.

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