Position: Data Scientist - Agriculture
Location: We could consider candidates based at additional locations within Europe
Application process: Carefully read instructions in "Additional Information" section
We have an exciting opportunity for Data Scientists to join our Global Data Analytics & Predictive Science Team in Product Biology department. Within these roles you will work on Syngenta historical biological data to uncover patterns and deliver new data-driven insights for active ingredient development across R&D functions. You will be asked to analyse and interpret the outcome of scientific experiments with your analytical skills as well as machine learning approaches. Your work will bring forward our understanding of biological performance in crop protection and guide design, optimization and development of novel crop protection solutions. Key responsibilities will include:
- Driving historical data analysis of biological field trials by identifying patterns and analyzing the impact of key factors including product formulations, rates, mixtures, agricultural practices, and environmental conditions on product performance.
- Supporting domain experts in understanding product performance and identifying analytics opportunities to drive business value.
- Contributing to strategic business initiatives across Crop Protection R&D by interpreting physical chemistry, biokinetic, formulation, marketing and environmental data to support decision taking and design laboratory, glasshouse and field trials.
- Guiding technical managers in designing field trials aimed at validating scientific hypotheses and model predictions.
- Working with R&D IT and software developers to improve data-models integrations and to deploy applications tailored on shareholders’ needs.
- Monitoring and exploring new modelling approaches, analytical tools and methodologies.
- Engaging with high-priority digital transformation projects to understand opportunities to accelerate the impact of data science for predictive field trialing.
- Working with colleagues and external collaborators understanding their complementary capabilities and integrating them into projects and initiatives.