Senior Plant Pathologist

Role & responsibilities

Research and Development

• Support Field and Vegetable breeding programs in developing and implementing research goals through coordination and alignment of team, resources and program direction.
• Engage and collaborate with Breeding, Product Development and Sales team regarding crop specific disease resistance traits.
• Developing quality data on phenotypic evaluation and analysis of biotic traits.
• Responsible for prioritization and execution of deliverables of research projects according to planned timelines.
• Lead, coach, and guide a team of phytopathology specialists and technicians in fulfilling research objectives of the program.
• Drafting and maintaining technical documents such as disease protocols, diagnostic methods, or best practices.
• Improving the efficiency of phenotyping protocols using Six Sigma or other process improvement methods.
• Provide excellent diagnostics services to internal clients and external customers in a timely and cost-effective method.

Plant Pathology, Pest and Disease Management

• Establishing efficient pathological assays for various Field Crops and Vegetable diseases and deploy them for routine disease testing.
• Provide the highest quality disease and pest resistance phenotypic data to support integrated breeding teams toward industry leading resistance traits.
• Conduct disease and insect screening trial under artificial condition and share the data to respective crop breeders.
• Conduct hot spot screening trial at various locations and share the data to respective crop breeders.
• Coordinate activities related to Pathology across the Region.
• To drive new initiatives and introduce innovative ideas and solutions by exploring latest scientific knowledge and technologies in plant pathology or related disciplines.

Perks and benefits

• Leave Encashment
• Group Mediclaim
• Performance Linked Bonus