Job Description:
Monsanto has always embraced innovation and always focused on making a better world. You can see it in our groundbreaking technology and in our dynamic environment where your skills and your career can grow and develop. We know that every day, new ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. You’ll be respected, you’ll contribute to the bottom line and you’ll help farmers feed the world.
We are looking for experienced Breeders to join our Soy Corn and Sugar Cane Division in São Paulo, Brazil.
Requirements:
- Doctorate degree in Genetic Breeding, Genetics, Statistics (Applied) OR Genetic Breeding in Animals plus 5 years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Knowledge in Germoplasm
- Planning field trials; managing field selection and evaluation of assigned species
- Coordinating and placing trials
- Portuguese fluency strongly desired
- Currently eligible to work in Brazil
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Develop and maintain a germplasm pool to ensure successful results
- Coordinate and place trials in major market areas and travel to these areas for evaluation of entries
- Fulfill requirements for variety advancement through documentation of performance, resistance, and completion of required breeder's seed
- Provide summarized results of trials to management
- Learns basic germplasm pools including strengths and weaknesses; ancestral information; (general heterotic groups if applicable)
- Utilizes marker application for projects, scheduling and forecasting of samples, datapoints and associated nursery rows
- Utilizes marker application through early generations where applicable throughout the breeding process.
