RnD Trial Specialist

LIMAGRAIN; Salinas (CA); In loco; USD 79.000 - 98.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Competitive salary

Medical, Dental, Vision

12 Paid Holidays per year

+1 Floating Holiday per year

Progressive time off(starting at 80hrs

401(k) company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Descrizione del lavoro

LIMAGRAIN (HM.CLAUSE) is seeking a crop expert to lead strategic trials across assigned crops and regions. You will collaborate with growers, breeders, and marketing to align trial results with product strategies and market needs, ensuring data-driven decisions from planning through evaluation.

The role emphasizes field trial leadership, resource coordination, and cross-functional communication to support global breeding programs and commercial success.

Competenze

• BA or BS degree in Agriculture or related field.
• 4–6 years of trialing experience and experience working with growers.

Mansioni

• Act as a crop expert for assigned crops, including production knowledge, market trends, and breeding implications.
• Create and manage strategic trial plans for assigned crops/regions.
• Lead pretrial planning meetings with complete documents.
• Coordinate with RTSGC to validate trial plans and allocate resources.
• Review Resource Planner WOs after validation.
• Lead off-station screening trials and coordinate grower agreements.
• Manage sowing, seedling health, germination recording, plotting labels, transplanting and evaluation.
• Maintain communication with Breeding team on trial life cycle.
• Preload data into SCORE tool for trials.
• Support breeding teams in updating Product Profiles.
• Collect and review market information for assigned crops.
• Represent RTS team at events.

Conoscenze

Crop trialing

Grower coordination

Market knowledge

Formazione

BA or BS degree in Agriculture or Related Field

Descrizione del lavoro

Company Introduction

“WE BUILD TRUST WITH FARMERS AROUND THE WORLD BY SUPPORTING THEM TO SUSTAINABLY IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND FLAVOR OF THEIR PRODUCTION.”

Company Introduction

“WE BUILD TRUST WITH FARMERS AROUND THE WORLD BY SUPPORTING THEM TO SUSTAINABLY IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND FLAVOR OF THEIR PRODUCTION.” HM.CLAUSE is a Business Unit of Limagrain, an international agricultural co-operative founded and managed by farmers. HM.CLAUSE specializes in the breeding, production, and sale of vegetable seeds. From the world market to the farmer's market, we collaborate with our customers to deliver successful solutions for the agricultural challenges of today and produce the highest quality vegetable seeds for the future. Our global team of experts and state-of-the-art research facilities enable us to work side-by-side with growers to provide the most regionally relevant and reliable vegetable seeds available. If our mission resonates with your passion, we look forward to your application.

Job Description

• To demonstrate the level of a “crop expert” for crops assigned. This would include but not be limited to crop production knowledge, market knowledge, farming knowledge and industry trends as to understand the role of genetics or breeding as a marketable solution. Information obtained by this position will feed directly to the breeding and marketing teams to help refine their strategy.
• To create and manage a strategic trial plan of assigned crops and/or regions presented during the pretrial planning meeting.
• To manage the pretrial planning meeting with completed pretrial planning documents prior to the meeting with all relevant information that will drive the conversations during the meetings.
• To work directly with the Research Trial Specialist Global Coordinator (RTSGC) to validate the requested trial plan via the Resource Planner tool and will communicate directly with the breeding teams any needed resource reallocation plans.
• To review Resource Planner WOs with RTSGC after validation during every semestral campaign.
• To Lead off-station screening trial efforts by leading grower meetings to complete the R&D trial grower agreements prior to transplantation or sowing of the assigned trial sets.
• To manage the following as related to assigned trials by managing sowing in the greenhouse/direct sowings, monitoring seedling health, recording and reporting germination to breeding team, preparing plot labels, managing the transplant and evaluation.
• To manage communication with the Breeding team throughout the life cycle of the trial by providing updates on a schedule as determined in the pre-trial planning meetings.
• To manage the preloading of data into SCORE tool for their trials.
• To support the breeding teams and PM in updating and keep current the Product Profiles of assigned crops.
• To collect, to review and to share market information of assigned crops to include (but not limited to): acreage, market characteristics and value.
• To collect and to review assigned crops market information to include (but not limited to): Main commercial competitors, strengths and weakness of main competitor varieties.
• To represent the RTS team at invited HMC and LVS sponsored events.

What We Expect Of You

• BA or BS degree in Agriculture or Related Field
• 4-6 years previous trialing experience and experience working with growers, experience with regional vegetable crop production and cropping methods

The rewards of working here

You join an expert team of innovators and creators that collaborate with farmers around the world to sustainably enhance the taste and quality of healthy food. Our goal is to form teams that inspire and learn from each other as they work to elevate our products from seed to table. We recognize our employees as our most valued resource and work to create an atmosphere that is supportive, healthy, and progressive. We promote an environment of wellness and well-being and hybrid schedules when it is appropriate for the position. It is an important and expanding piece of our local and global mission for Diversity & Inclusion programs and support groups in the corporate world.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• This position’s range is $79,000 - $98,000
• Comprehensive Benefits Choices
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work/Life Balance
• 12 Paid Holidays per year
• +1 Floating Holiday per year
• Paid shutdown holidays
• Progressive time off starting at 80-vacation hours
• Company Covered Benefits
• Company paid Life Insurance, Long and Short-Term Disability
• Wellness Benefits
• Family EAP, Telehealth and Mental Wellness Services
• Internal Career Progression
• Learning Environment
• Promotions from within
• Paid Annual Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Welcoming Environment
• Business casual attire; open door policy
• Financial Wellness
• 401(k) dollar for dollar Employer matching
• Supplemental Employer Contribution Plan
• Traditional and Roth (401k) plans options
• Company Profit sharing in December
• Family Benefits
• Maternity and Paternity paid time off
• Low family medical deductibles
• Family Planning Resources

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; risk of radiation and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.