Agronomist for Crop Protection

3 weeks ago

Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH Full time
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PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH is seeking a highly skilled Crop Protection Scientist, Global to join our team in Leicester, UK.

This role will partner with global future farm teams to support the development of advantaged raw materials addressing quality, food safety, and supply chain resilience.

You will work with a global multi-disciplinary team complementing PepsiCo's genetics, breeding, system biology, agronomy, and sustainability activities.

Responsibilities
  • Deliver on project goals that support pests and disease resistance solutions, including owning the experimental lifecycle: develop strategies, negotiate costs, design experiments, organize and analyze emergent data, generate reports, and present conclusions and recommendations back to the business.
  • Partner with internal variety-specific agronomy (VSA) trialing teams for improved biotic stress resistance/tolerance and support sustainable regional agronomic practices for pest and disease management.
  • Function as a regional subject matter expert in pest and disease identification for PepsiCo.
  • Operate in a highly collaborative environment that includes regional leads, breeders, physiologists, molecular/biochemical scientists, agronomists, farm personnel, technicians, and data modelers.
  • Identify regional collaborators with expertise, and manage collaborative partnerships to evaluate region-specific pathogens and pests on PepsiCo crop varieties to align with PEP+ sustainability goals.
  • Conduct high-quality research on crop pathology to future-proof the business against resistance breakdown, changing pathogen populations, identification of novel resistance or solutions, and other evolving factors affecting pest and disease resistance.
  • Prepare AOP budget for regional trialing activities and track spend against all projects.
  • Provide regular and timely project progress updates to senior stakeholders to ensure continued alignment with business objectives.
Qualifications
  • PhD in Plant Pathology, Agronomy, Plant Science, Horticulture, Crop Science, Crop Protection, or Plant Breeding, Agricultural Sciences or related discipline with a minimum of 5 years of commercial experience or equivalent (Masters with >8 years Strongly desire 3+ years commercial experience at Agricultural Science company in the field of seed science and technology).
  • Demonstrate successful experience in the design and analysis of plant pathology research (field and laboratory), including identification of pathogen/pest, phenotyping plant response to pest/disease, and disease scoring evaluation in crops relevant to business (i.e potatoes, oats, others).
  • Previous experience in managing data streams, quantitative and statistical data analysis, and maintaining accurate records of scientific activities.
  • Excellent communication and networking ability with internal and external audiences with a wide range of scientific expertise.
  • Proficient at identifying and leveraging collaboration with regional experts in academic, government, and private industry for pest and disease solutions across multiple time zones.
  • Experience in the R&D industry with knowledge of both plant breeding practices and principles of agronomic investigation is an advantage.
  • Available to travel internationally for up to 50% time with limited notice to changing regional pest and disease pressures.
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