Organisation
Limagrain is an agricultural cooperative and an international seed group owned by 1,300 farmers located in Auvergne (in the center of France). Present in 49 countries and with 9,335 employees, the Group breeds, produces and distributes field seeds, vegetable seeds and agri-food products. Focused on the genetic progress of plants, Limagrain is the fourth largest seed group worldwide. talent.limagrain.com
Reference
2022-7570
We are now seeking highly motivated individuals to join Limagrain China Field Research Team. Under supervision of China hybrid breeder manager, you will manage a regional commercial breeding program, to select the best hybrids for related corn market.
Hybrid development and Testing:
- Develop and maintain the hybrid program focused on product pipelines in target segments. Ensuring that the pipeline hybrids can meet markets’ requirements in yield and other important agronomic traits.
- Responsible for testing plan building, data analysis, product characterization and recommendation for hybrids advancement.
- Involve in line breeding programs, to screen and select inbred lines serving for commercial hybrid development purpose.
- Work closely with trial team on hybrid evaluation. Participate to the main testing activities (sowing, phenotyping, harvest, training, etc.).
- Coordinate with PD teams, to ensure that all relevant information and data are available during hybrid advancement.
- Work closely with PD, Sales and Marketing teams to collect information and fine-tune the breeding goals for hybridization.
Functional Support:
- Coordinate with TI team for trait conversions for the parental lines of pipeline hybrids, give recommendation at every season.
- Responsible for hybrids seed increase request and ensuring seeds availability for testing, demonstration, and registration.
- Responsible for registration and PVP application document preparation for target segment.
- Participate to other activities in research stations when needed (seed counting, pollination, etc.)
- Manage budget and resources for program to attain the objectives.