Accountabilities:

• Design, develop, implement and execute technical strategy required for product development aligned with product concepts and portfolio needs to deliver genetic gain in the short and long term for breeding pipelines;

• Interact with partners in nursery, trialing and operations, Analytics and Pipeline Design, Product Design, technical agronomy, commercial and marketing to assure implementation of technical strategy for developing new commercial products;

• Support China Corn Breeding pipelines for product development in Mid-late spring segment

• Support new product launches with our national and regional brands as well as Market Development;

• Support projects on implementation of Precision Breeding technical innovations in product development in Region;

• Support regional team and partners within region to support innovation projects for Precision Breeding, with a key focus on driving genetic gain and product performance through digital transformation and new technology development and deployment;

• Support the Health Safety and Environment, Compliance, Business Conduct and Human Rights policies and culture in the site.

Knowledge, experience & leadership capabilities

An ideal candidate will have the following capabilities in order to excel in this role:

• Must understand commercial breeding pipeline.

• Must understand breeding systems and its standard analyses and traditional means of decision-making within Corn.

• Must understand new analytical tools developed to support breeding decision-making.

• Must have advanced experience working on breeding projects

• Fluent Chinese speaking and good oral and wrinting English skills

Critical knowledge

• A thorough knowledge of breeding theory and Mendelian genetics (experimental designs, descriptive and test statistics, genetic gain theory, genetic models, linkage disequilibrium, genetic diversity analysis, etc.).

• Knowledge of one or several specific crop(s) and their breeding.

• Good understanding of plant pathology principles.

• Knowledge of the commercial needs of the seeds business