Senior Manager, Global Breeding Strategy & Analytics
Driscoll's
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $107,344 - $173,428 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead strategic initiatives focused on pipeline analytics and tracking impacts of breeding technologies on genetic gain
- Design and influence strategies for deployment of predictive breeding and data-driven decision sciences in berry pipelines
- Partner with breeding Directors to provide data-driven insights for performance of global berry breeding programs
- Oversee deployment of new genetics across four berry crops to drive consumer delight and grower profitability
- Drive initiatives aligned with R&D global strategies including data-driven stage gate advancements and automation of decision analytics
- Design strategies for phase-in of new breeding methods and evaluate genomic selection models and digital phenotyping solutions
- Represent breeding on digital transformation steering teams
- Provide leadership, team purpose, and performance assessment for varietal breeding team in EMEA; track operational and capital budgeting
- Maintain role with EMEA product leadership team and participate in strategic business plans in EMEA
- Communicate opportunities to Global R&D leadership and partner to manage financial allocations
- Follow Company policies and ensure security of confidential and proprietary information
Requirements
- PhD in Plant Breeding, Quantitative Genetics, Data Science or related fields
- 5 years’ experience in plant breeding industry
- Proven record of adopting pipeline analytics and decision sciences
- Experience in Plant Breeding, Agronomy, and growers’ economics
- Skilled in team leadership and driving change initiatives
- Track record in adopting predictive analytics methods, driving digital transformation and steering broad, complex programs and multiple projects, simultaneously
- Spanish speaking skills preferred