ROLE PURPOSE
- Lead the Germplasm development program and projects for Solanaceous crop species for APAC region, across Local breeding programs.
- Lead the breeders in APAC to strategize breeding schemes to meet or exceed specifications agreed. Prioritize milestones, allocation of resources with use of new technologies.
- Lead innovation processes to deliver hybrids with new value-adding traits to grow new markets and increase market share (leverage international and local innovation).
- Secure cross functional collaborations of breeder's including technical supports
- Ensure completion of projects & completeness of breeding data in breeding and seeds development platforms.
- Empower breeding team, motivate and enhance capabilities.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Direct people responsibility: 5 to 8 direct reports
Authority level:
- Germplasm Development Lead for Tomato, Peppers and others solanaceous crops as applicable for APAC region
- Lead the Solanaceous crop GD team to drive and deliver a value-added pipeline as per market need.
Work coverage:
- Monitoring, evaluation and stream line breeding projects and development work to deliver hybrids as per market needs
- Plan and deliver technical and innovation projects for speedy delivery of hybrids
- Define and periodical review of Product Profiles, development pipelines, and New Product Advancements with Regional and Country stakeholders
- Facilitate / organize Crop specific technology usage (Genomics, Phenomics, MM & Cell biology).
- Address country and crop specific PVP / IP related matters through country teams and LIPL.
- Motivate, guide and develop crop breeding team
- Secure APAC crop interests at Global level.
- Yearly and Monthly progress calibration and monitoring to address mid/long term strategy
Responsible for :
- Develop & implement Regional GD Strategy for Solanaceous crops
- Setting breeding targets for breeders and evaluate them
- Key deliverables with value addition products to the market as per plan.
- Establish crop related innovation platform for future / new traits and manage operational aspects of IP development and protection.
- Participate and contribute relevant meetings to ensure region interest and needs.
- Arrange regional crop GD meeting to review technical program/projects, priorities, usage of new technology, gap and action plan for speedy delivery of products and biosafety related matter.
Administrative responsibility :
- Regional SOL breeding team management
- Co-ordination with cross functional stakeholders (MST, BO, supply chain,..)
- Identify and organize people development needs (training, exposure).
- Timely reporting of work responsibility to regional & global GD/SD.
- Follow up of annual plan / calendar.
- Monitoring country/regional level breeders for responsibility and project plan.
Financial responsibility.
- Contribute to Portfolio assessment, and development of regional strategy including Med and Long term plans with KPIS / OKRs
- Budget inputs and productivity
- Contribute content to investment proposals (capital, germplasm, breeding & recruitments).
- Interact with cross functional team to define and finetune segments and product profile.