Assistant Breeding Project Lead- Legumes

Job Description
About Us
Through leading innovations, we help farmers around the world meet the challenge of feeding a growing population and taking care of our planet. We are currently seeking an Assistant Breeding Project Lead- Legumes for the Vegetables Seeds Germplasm Development team in Naples, Florida.   
Role Purpose
Establish the different phenotyping needs and activities to secure trial data collection and data storage.
Execute acceptable trials and data analysis to support data driven decisions for early development through late-stage breeding activities.
Act as primary contact and coordinator of breeding projects, collaborating with the Project Team (field operations, late-stage breeding, and genotyping teams) to plan, initiate, and execute projects.
Manage trial administration, seed stocks and seed productions related to the projects, including organization of seed health testing, seed movement, and seed shipment tracking.
Update databases with required information necessary for tracking biological entities and meet KPI requirements.
The Assistant Scientist role represents the interface between the R&D Crop Team Leadership (Breeding, Genetic, and Trait Project Leads) and field operations teams. They ensure project execution in R&D meets the quality expectations set by the Project Lead of a given project and secures the high-quality data generation, storage and analysis for data driven development processes.
Accountabilities
Organize trial data collection, data management, storage and analysis (discovery to late-stage trialing)
Provide technical data to breeder in support of variety advancement.
Collaboration with field operations teams through timely planning and clear guidance on crop management requests
Organize field and greenhouse testing in conjunction with breeding, genetics, traits, and field operations teams.
Secure crop process from sowing to harvest: planning, request, sowing list and/or planting list, organize pollination plan, harvest list, and seed health prevention measures.
Establish and maintain good relationships with external cooperators.
Organize marker assisted selection logistics including seed/tissue sampling, lab coordination, and coordination/execution of field activities driven by lab results.
Manage seed productions and seed stocks.
Secure seed logistic and seed transfer according to internal rules in collaboration with operations team.
Integrate new and/or supporting technologies to increase efficiencies and/or accuracies in breeding program.
Regular reporting to project leads, with frequency to be defined by relevant project lead(s)
Develop excellence within Associate Scientist community across crops and stations.