Full Description

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice. Testing Research Associate As a Testing Research Associate, you'll play a crucial role in making sure our experimental protocols are on point and that we're using all the right agronomic practices and crop management techniques. You'll also help us gather high throughput data to advance our vegetable pipelines. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and passionate individual to join a multidisciplinary team of vegetable breeders, horticultural scientists, data scientists, and engineers who work on creative solutions to complex business problems using advanced field and greenhouse operations, equipment, analytics, and cutting-edge automation techniques. This is a permanent position based out of the Leamington, Ontario area.

What you will do

• Responsible for planning and executing experimental protocols and performance trials in protected culture and open field environments for tomato, sweet peppers, and cucumbers.
• Operates research equipment, taking notes, entering data management with internal IT systems, and complying with seed stewardship standards
• Develops, executes and continuously improves a strategic testing plans in alignment with business objectives and to deliver results within the crops
• Execute protocols and trials to generate quality data enabling breeding partners to advance new products based on performance of products and market needs
• Captures data in Windows and iOS operating systems (desktop computing, iPhones, iPads) and conduct data quality check and assurance to enable timely advancement of vegetable products
• Leverage metrics applications and quality control processes to realize accuracy, efficiency and expanded improvements to protocols
• Manages relationships with growers and third-party cooperators to ensure timely completion and integrity of data collected
• Creates and uses tools from collected and analyzed data to develop the performance story and support the transfer of product and agronomic knowledge
• Uses overall understanding of market potential, competition, key trends, research and emerging market forces to become an industry expert and develop strategies and plans that effectively grow market share
• Explore new technologies to increase capacity, speed up current processes, and deploy novel technologies in data collection and crop management