**Testing Research Associate / CS / Campinas, SP**
At Bayer, we work hard to make this company a better place for our employees - and the world a better place for everyone. “Health for all, hunger for none.” That's our vision at Bayer.
Bayer is a global company with core competencies in the areas of life sciences, health care and agriculture. As an innovation company, we set trends in research-intensive areas. Bayer's products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their life quality.
**Position**:_T_**_esting Research Associate / Crop Science / Campinas, SP_**
**GET TO KNOW OUR AREA**:
Research and Development thru Testing and Operations in vegetables seeds to bring solutions that offer high yield to growers, in addition to safe, nutritious and tasty food for the final consumer.
**YOUR MISSION WILL BE TO**:
The Testing Research Associate will ensure execution of experimental protocols, proper agronomic practices and crop management techniques, and high throughput data collection to enable advancements of 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.
- Ensure compliance with Worker Protection Standards (WPS) as well as Bayer safety guidelines and housekeeping practices;
- 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, iPods, iPhones, iPads) and conduct data quality check and assurance to enable timely advancement of vegetable products
- 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
- Perform tasks to ensure compliance with Bayer policies and quality standard, including safeguarding of equipment daily use logs, calibration and maintenance
- Ability to work extended hours during peak seasons (including non-traditional day-time hours with the potential of overnight travel)
- Ability to perform successfully in a fast-paced, dynamic, team-based environment. Manages multiple projects and priorities
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to effectively achieve business results
- Capacity to communicate and work effectively with all management levels in a multi-cultural organization.
**ARE YOU READY FOR THE POSITION?**
- Mandatory: BSc in Agronomy or higher;
- Mandatory: Experience in crop management;
- Mandatory: Fluent Portuguese;
- _Intermediate English or higher; Spanish is a plus;_
- Knowledge and experience with agricultural equipment and vegetable crops production practices and history of leveraging that knowledge in a research environment;
- Demonstrated abilities to develop project plans, analyze and interpret data;
- Mandatory: Live in Campinas or nearby cities (up to 150 km);
- Mandatory: Availability for travel and CNH B.
**What´s in it for you?**
At Bayer we have established our benefits in three essential pillars, which integrate and converge to promote the life quality and well-being of our employees.
- **Health Care Plan**:
- **Dental Plan**:
- **Medicines Subsidy**:
- **GymPass**:
- **“Conte Comigo”** - Psychological, chemical dependence, legal and financial assistance
- **“Bem Nascer”** - Health monitoring during pregnancy, no coparticipation in the health care plan, workshop for pregnant women (employees or partner of employees), extended maternity and paternity leave, daycare assistance, Bepantol baby, etc.
- **Private Pension Plan**:
- **Life Insurance**:
- **CoopBayer**:
- Cooperative that aims at the financial education and giving credit for employees
- **Holidays bridge and holidays regular