Reference: 2019-4851

Limagrain Europe breeds, produces and commercializes field seeds to farmers. Investments in Research and Development reach 14.3% of the annual Group turnover. Products are sold in 50 countries through 20 subsidiaries and many distributors. The brands are: LG and Advanta®. As one of the European leaders in wheat and forage maize, the LG brand is also a main player in sunflower and winter oilseed rape.

Limagrain Europe is a Business Unit of Limagrain. The fourth largest seed company worldwide, Limagrain is an international agricultural cooperative group, founded and managed by French farmers. As a creator and producer of plant varieties, Limagrain distributes field seeds, vegetable seeds and cereal products.

For further information: www.limagrain-europe.com, on Facebook and YouTube

OVERALL MISSION:

The Limagrain Europe Maize Breeding organization is looking for candidates to join its organization to drive molecular breeding technologies across its breeding programs in Europe.  These positions provide an excellent opportunity to contribute in a successful breeding team and develop your career working in a multi-disciplinary international environment, helping define, validate and shape breeding methods, strategies and technologies.

MAIN ACTIVITIES:

In conjunction with Breeding Leaders and members of Breeding Technology teams your main mission will be to:

• Utilize dedicated breeding resources to develop technical contributions in a multi-functional team environment to accelerate our efforts on building a robust product pipeline;
• Design novel concepts and develop scalable solutions that contribute to accelerate the rate of genetic gain of our breeding programs;
• Participate in strategic evaluations of new technologies & methodologies to support the breeding organization;
• Develop and manage field experimentation aimed at generating supporting evidence to drive technology adoption;
• Partner with maize breeding community and other key breeding technology areas to jointly explore and validate novel concepts.
• Provide hands-on support to breeders to facilitate the effective use of technologies in breeding programs
• Ensure that all team members follow the company standards (health, safety and environment and other). Promote innovation and maintain high technical and scientific level.

PROFILE:

• Master’s  or PhD degree in Plant Breeding, Quantitative Genetics or a closely related field, is required.
• Strong demonstrated knowledge in breeding, quantitative genetics, applied statistics and application of modern tools and technologies.
• Strong proficiency in computational skills, including R statistical language;
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills are needed
• Successful at leading projects with high degree of complexity;
• Ability to steer innovation and propose new approaches.

JOIN US !

If you are interested to join us please send your CV and a short letter describing your motivation through the following link:

https://talent.limagrain.com/job/job-molecular-breeding-scientist-maize_4851.aspx