Technician Trial / Vegetable Seeds

BASF Türk Kimya San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.

Position Purpose

·      Organize and independently coordinate, set up and execute trials as defined by the Regional Product Development Specialist and/or R&D teams for a specific area and/or crop(s) of expertise.

·      Use own local expertise to propose the local trial plan, maximizing trial impact and efficiency and this in consultation with the Regional Product Development Specialist and/or R&D teams.

·      Assure those aspects related to the management of the culture, pursuing overall trial representativeness, that the crop ends its cycle in the trials without incidents and that the correct work of selection, evaluation is done with the necessary people involved.

·      Coordinate and assure a correct evaluation and communication of the trial program results for the area and/or crop of expertise. Use own understanding of the market and analysis of the data, to make clear elevation proposals for the local market needs, aligned with the Regional Product Development Specialist and/or R&D teams -- maximizing the pipeline.

·      Propose and lead the local execution of Basic and Advanced product growing concept development trials to add value and broaden understanding, aiming towards creating customized solutions for our customers.

·      Be a technical support and reference for the local sales team, providing local growing advice, variety information (based on experiences and data) and support demand creation and specific product related issues.

·      Facilitate and promote internal & external knowledge exchange with key stakeholders. Champion and promote the use of digital tools and innovative technologies

Major Accountabilities

Trial coordination & execution

Design, plan and coordinate the trial schedule for a specific area and/or crop of expertise in close cooperation with the Regional Product Development Specialist, R&D teams and the Team Lead, leading the local trial plan proposal in line with regional crop strategy.

Set up, Monitor and execute the trials for a specific area and/or crops of expertise in close cooperation with Regional Product Development Specialist, R&D teams and the Team Lead.

Conduct field trial evaluations to collect, analyze and interpret autonomously subjective and objective trait data, according to the protocols, from trials and inform the Regional Product Development Specialist and/or R&D teams on the results.

Organize the necessary trial agreements, contracts and other processes with external and internal stakeholders.

Market intelligence

Identify, analyze and present relevant information about competitors, market trends, agronomic topics/issues or any other valuable information to key stakeholders such as Regional Product Development Specialist, R&D teams, Marketing & Sales, Team Lead

Data management, usage & communication

Collect, analyze, interpret and register autonomously data from trials.

Report back to the Regional Product Development Specialist and R&D teams using all available communication channels such as digital tools.

Use own trial evaluations and market knowledge to provide clear elevation proposals based on data analysis - aligned with the Regional Product Development Specialist and/or R&D teams.

Show the performance of competitor varieties & highlight key advantages/disadvantages, ensuring external standards are known and included.

Knowledge exchange & product positioning

Organize and coordinate meetings with all the necessary stakeholders involved in a crop/area/project in order to facilitate knowledge exchange and enable the decision making about trials and elevations.

Coordinate, communicate and update the trial plans to the Regional Product Development Specialist and R&D teams and provide technical inputs such as positioning, agronomic practices or other relevant variety information, in order to meet agreed standards about trial data quality, guarantee assertive positioning, time planning and budgets.

Propose and lead the local execution of Basic and Advanced product growing concept development trials to add value and broaden understanding aiming towards creating customized solutions for our customers. Work with sales and customers to broaden own market understanding and to develop added value product concepts.

Use these learnings to build more relevant trial plans, to review traits measured, give feedback to key stakeholders such as Regional Product Development Specialist and R&D teams and drive evaluation proposals.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in degree
• 1- 3 years of relevant professional experience
• Team worker.
• Passion for agriculture.
• Experience with relevant crop(s) is highly desired.
• Experience with trialing is desired.
• Strong organization and communication skills.
• Willingness to drive improvement and change.
• Computer literate.
• Some knowledge of Databases and statistics.
• Good level of English:
• Analytical and a good observer.
• Flexible, autonomous and very organized.
• Driving license & willingness to travel.