Product Development Scientist

Bayer CropScience Limited

Jakarta Pusat

On-site

IDR 50,000,000 - 90,000,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Bayer CropScience Limited in Indonesia seeks a Product Development Scientist to drive Precision Breeding technology for the Indonesia Corn Business and provide technical leadership to prioritize and advance innovations into the pipeline. You will collaborate with product design and development across region on seed and trait portfolios.

The role requires leading breeding program execution, managing the pipeline, defining selection criteria, and partnering across functions to deliver products.

Qualifications

  • PhD with minimum of 1 year relevant experience.
  • Quantitative genetics, Breeding and population genetics, Data scientist, Breeding workflow designers, Digital Skills, Programing, Data Analytics.
  • High agility to respond to changing environments and adapt to new situations and work in a team.
  • Effective verbal communication skills, essential to be fluent in English.
  • Strong project management skills managing complex, multi-faceted projects resulting in measurable success.
  • Strong ability in building cross-functional partnerships and influence others to drive results and innovation with customer-centricity.
  • Demonstration of application of VACC behavior and proved competencies to work in DSO environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a structured commercial breeding program that utilises all the relevant components of an effective breeding program to deliver the expected products to the customers.
  • Accountable for product development advancement decisions and managing the pipeline and pre-commercial portfolio by product concept partnering across functions for efficient deployment of product and solutions.
  • Define and continuously improve breeding schemes and precision breeding to maximize realized genetic gain in the pipeline.
  • Collaborate with global breeding community, technology partners, testing teams and regional commercial team for strategic development of the Breeding program and implement strategies related to product development, assessment, advancement, and adaptation to different growing environments and management practices and Be an influential role model and foster strong collaborative relationships with all partners to create a future-looking culture and great place to work.
  • Lead advancement and implementation of traits in the product pipeline including the conversions.
  • Drive cognitive pipeline analytics and AI models implementing data science and digital driven breeding pipeline using state of the art analytics of phenotypic and breeding data across locations and seasons.
  • Drive inbred and product diversity analytics and germplasm enhancement / global leverage program, lead the germplasm component of tailored solutions and diversity.
  • Lead the definition of the selection criteria for Product Development and acceleration of advancements by product concept.
  • Design the experiment for the pipeline, the stage plan for PDev, E2E breeding roadmaps, and the solutions engineering components.
  • Design product and solutions concepts to create next generation products informed by genomic and phenomics insights.
  • Translate the value drivers of growers, customers and the value chain into innovation targets and co-ordinate with design breeder for implementing the strategy for development of innovative products as approved.
  • Drive stakeholder engagement with MD, and commercial teams to ensure product delivery and launch effectiveness of new products.
  • Serve as a content expert on products, methods of development and product positioning within R&D, market development, commercial teams, customer events, external scientific and industry events.
  • Work closely with Patent Science, Regulatory and R&D leadership to develop IP strategy and secure IP for product descriptions.

Skills

Quantitative genetics
Breeding
Population genetics
Data analytics
Programming
Digital skills
Data science
Breeding workflow design
Communication skills

Education

PhD in relevant field

Job description

Product Development Scientist
MAIN PURPOSE
  • Drive Precision Breeding technology for Product Development for Indonesia Corn Business.
  • Provide technical leadership and insight to prioritize develop, implement and advance innovations into the pipeline and well as collaborate with product design and product development across region on building seed & trait portfolio.
  • Drive Product Development breeding roadmap definition and pipeline engineering.
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Lead a structured commercial breeding program that utilises all the relevant components of an effective breeding program to deliver the expected products to the customers.
  • Accountable for product development advancement decisions and managing the pipeline and pre-commercial portfolio by product concept partnering across functions for efficient deployment of product and solutions.
  • Define and continuously improve breeding schemes and precision breeding to maximize realized genetic gain in the pipeline.
  • Collaborate with global breeding community, technology partners, testing teams and regional commercial team for strategic development of the Breeding program and implement strategies related to product development, assessment, advancement, and adaptation to different growing environments and management practices and Be an influential role model and foster strong collaborative relationships with all partners to create a future-looking culture and great place to work.
  • Lead advancement and implementation of traits in the product pipeline including the conversions.
  • Drive cognitive pipeline analytics and AI models implementing data science and digital driven breeding pipeline using state of the art analytics of phenotypic and breeding data across locations and seasons.
  • Drive inbred and product diversity analytics and germplasm enhancement / global leverage program, lead the germplasm component of tailored solutions and diversity.
  • Lead the definition of the selection criteria for Product Development and acceleration of advancements by product concept.
  • Design the experiment for the pipeline, the stage plan for PDev, E2E breeding roadmaps, and the solutions engineering components.
  • Design product and solutions concepts to create next generation products informed by genomic and phenomics insights.
  • Translate the value drivers of growers, customers and the value chain into innovation targets and co-ordinate with design breeder for implementing the strategy for development of innovative products as approved.
  • Drive stakeholder engagement with MD, and commercial teams to ensure product delivery and launch effectiveness of new products.
  • Serve as a content expert on products, methods of development and product positioning within R&D, market development, commercial teams, customer events, external scientific and industry events.
  • Work closely with Patent Science, Regulatory and R&D leadership to develop IP strategy and secure IP for product descriptions.
QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES
  • PhD with minimum of 1 year relevant experience. Demonstrated capabilities to develop, execute and evaluate complex programs.
  • Quantitative genetics, Breeding and population genetics, Data scientist, Breeding workflow designers, Digital Skills, Programing, Data Analytics.
  • High agility to respond to changing environments and adapt to new situations and work in a team.
  • Effective verbal communication skills, essential to be fluent in English.
  • Strong project management skills managing complex, multi-faceted projects resulting in measurable success.
  • Strong ability in building cross-functional partnerships and influence others to drive results and innovation with customer-centricity.
  • Demonstration of application of VACC behavior and proved competencies to work in DSO environment.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIP
  • Global Breeding Product Design
  • Global Breeding Product Development
  • Regional Crop Steering Teams
  • Regional Product Development functionsGlobal Breeding Capability Teams
  • MD, regional Marketing and Sales Teams from respective countries
  • Regulatory Team (global and local)
Application Period

23/06/2026

Reference Code

874358

Division

Crop Science

Location

Indonesia : DKI Jakarta Jakarta : Jakarta

Functional Area

Biotechnology R&D

Position Grade

VS 1.1

Employment Type

Regular

Work Time

Standard

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