Bioinformatician - Field Technologies, Data Analytics (m/f/d)

Beschreibung

About KWS

KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. With the tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for more than 160 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugar beet, cereals, potato, rapeseed, sunflowers and vegetables. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods. 5.700 employees represent KWS in more than 70 countries. For more information: www.kws.com/career. Follow us on LinkedIn® at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/.

Global Head of Field Technologies and Data Analytics (all gender)

Field of Work: Research & Development
Location: Einbeck, Lower Saxony, DE
ID: 6664

Innovations in the agricultural business are your driver? You love to work for a leading, family-owned company and you lead with support and respect to prosper?
Join us as our new Global Head of Field Technologies and Data Analytics (all gender) within the KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA at our location in Einbeck, Germany.
The Global Head of Field Technologies and Data Analytics (all gender) is responsible for the leadership and continuous development of KWS R&D digitalization and field automation activities as a center of competence within the research and development network of KWS. This role is responsible for the definition and operational implementation of the R&D digitalization and field automation strategy in alignment with the strategic goals of KWS. In this position you are responsible for ensuring that KWS stays competitive in R&D field automation, digitalization and data interpretation.This is what you can look forward to:

• Develop and execute the digitalization strategy for R&D in line with the overall R&D and KWS digitalization strategy in order to enable superior decision making and data interpretation to extract additional value from the various data sources within and outside KWS.
• Apply foresight to identify new relevant developments for digital technologies to support predictive breeding, precision breeding, gene discovery and field automation as an essential part for innovative product development.
• Provide customer-oriented, robust, highly productive, and integrated digital systems worldwide for all functions involved in breeding and research.
• Define the objectives and relevant level of research investment for the various digitalization and automatization activities to ensure the right focus in partnership with research, high-throughput services, and breeding functions.
• The opportunity to lead and develop a department consisting of highly qualified and international colleagues
• Find opportunities for leveraging cross-crop and cross-function synergies to optimize effectiveness within the available resource capacity.
• To achieve this, the Global Head of Field Technologies and Data Analytics is supported by several international teams and works together with the Global Head of Research and Services and the R&D Extended Leadership Team on the strategic and operational steering of the KWS research network.

Who you are and what you bring to the table? 

• PhD or extensive working expertise in bioscience, breeding, IT, digital field technologies or a closely related field.
• Good analytical skills and ability to challenge diverse scientific and organizational concepts based on broad knowledge of automation and digitalization
• Multiple years of professional experience, preferably in industry and in international leadership situations
• Strong proven entrepreneurial, strategic, and leadership skills
• Ability to understand diverse content areas in a fast-moving environment, and translation into value adding concepts
• Strong self-motivated driver who seeks continuous improvement and supports decision making at various levels of the organization
• Solution oriented mentality with an open and cooperative mindset and a high degree of customer orientation
• Excellent communication skills

That is our offer to you:

• As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence - this culture is lived in practice creating thus an open and friendly working atmosphere.
• True to our motto Make yourself grow, we support employees’ professional and personal development.
• We offer excellent work equipment (e.g. ergonomic workstations, several monitors, air conditioning, high-end technical equipment), a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location.
• We offer a company car, company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and the possibility of a job bike.