Now Hiring! Trait Introgression Manager - Research Triangle Park, NC

Research Triangle Park, NC

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This position will manage introgression activities performed globally, ensuring that they meet the elite event selection criteria for assigned projects. The successful execution of this process is crucial for Trait Development and supports various aspects such as research and development trial activities globally, production and trial activities in counter-season locations, global regulatory approval requirements, and regulatory science functions.

As a Trait Introgression Manager - Research Triangle Park, NC, You Create Chemistry By...

• Being accountable for continual develop of program and directing trait introgression activities for multiple traits and/or crops, as assigned, to create seed necessary for testing elite events in targeted maturity groups; and coordinating with Greenhouse Operations Supervisor to ensure space availability and consumable resource availability
• Contributing to pre-project team by providing input for development of macro timelines, introgression planning and budget and resource analyses; Effectively communicate program advancements and research findings to management and to project teams
• Interacting with Trait Development Manager to ensure all criteria are identified and executed for trait selection process and organize quality control testing and molecular analysis for maintaining trait purity and maximum capture of recurrent parent per crossing generation and maintain accurate records of results;
• Being responsible for the recruitment, training, and leading scientific team to ensure innovative and consistent progress is made in soybean introgression, including implementation of new methodologies and project deliverables within agreed timelines
• Tracking and maintaining all pedigree, generation, stocks, etc. information in our database
• Coordinating with Crop Analytics and Crop Genetics to develop appropriate trait detection and MABC strategy for Trait Introgression (TI) projects to optimize efficiency and for method development

If you...

• Have a Ph.D. in agronomy, plant breeding, genetics, or related field with 4 years of experience, OR M.S . in agronomy, plant breeding, genetics, or related field with 6 years of experience, OR B.A. with more than 8 years of agronomy, plant breeding, and genetics experience.
• Have current knowledge of introgression, crossing, and production—gain per cycle, agronomic practices
• Are experienced in relevant agricultural sciences, preferably in at least one of the following crops: Cotton, Rice, Corn, Canola or Soybean
• Have in depth knowledge of genetics and trait introgression practices for genetically modified traits and preferably knowledge or experience with induced mutagenesis, genome edited or native traits.
• Have strong ability to develop, refine and troubleshoot TI programs to reach most efficiently genetic, phenotypic, purity, quality and production criteria for each program.
• Have extremely good organization skills, interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to identify individual team member strengths and utilize them optimally.
• Are able to identify and implement new technologies to continuously improve processes and demonstrated expertise at fostering interdepartmental and cross-functional collaboration and leveraging resources.
• Have problem solving skills must include organization and scheduling of multiple overlapping tasks and data management
• Have proven expertise in production operations, preferably in a greenhouse and growth chamber environments.
• Ability to travel up to 15% - domestically and internationally

Then...

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• Pet insurance
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