Trial Officer at Monsanto Company

Scope of the Role

Reporting to the Area MD lead and working closely with local TMDR on Kenyan territory.

Based in Nairobi / Isinya.

Primary crops: tomato, cabbage, watermelon, pepper, onion, bean

Main Purpose of the Job

• Work with the local MDR and help him to set up the trial plan for his crops.
• Insure sowing, transplanting and data collection for the characterization and the agronomical development of the new varieties.
• Work with research, EMEA MD team, marketing and sales team.
• Support local MDR in new varieties advancement proposition.

Key Responsibilities

• Following the local strategic trial plan set up trials in the main growing area. Focusing the activity on the PCM3 and PCM4 trials. support and help TDR to set up growers’ trials. The TO can also work on PCM2 trial if needed.
• Following the MD protocols, evaluate properly the trial and collect all data. Enter the data in the internal system to support varieties advancement from MDR.
  Support the MDR for the trial plan for Kenya
• Establish with him list of varieties and check
• Sow and transplant trials
• Insure the trial are followed properly by growers.
• Harvest fruits, evaluate variety performance, collect data and record data in FTS (database)
• Compile data and support MDR for data analysis
• Provide local market and competitors information to MDR
  Help MDR to provide sales support:
• Elaboration of argumentation and FAB’s for each new product launched
• Participation and preparation of growers meeting and exhibition.

Desired Experiences, Education and demonstrated Capabilities:

• Bachelor in agronomy level. Good overall computer skills and use of statistical analysis tool.
• Good vegetable and experimentation knowledge
• Two to five years experience will be appreciate
• Autonomy
• Strong communication and relationship skills
• Enjoying field work and relation with growers;
• Must be self-motivated and assertive with a results orientation.
• Fluent in English
• MS office

Functional Competencies

• Communication Skills: Demonstrate the capacity to integrate a diverse team, to establish quickly strong relation with local MDR, growers, distributors and communicate properly with all the other team (sales, research…) and external customers. Can listen and understand others.
• Accuracy and Discipline: Pay attention to detail and accuracy for all the trial work (sowing, transplantation and specially, data’s collection).Use all the tools in place (FTS).Provide accurate data’s and Scientifics results. Provides information in a useable form and on a timely basis to others.
• Analytical mind: Demonstrate capacity to look for the reason and causes of results. Be able to synthetize all the factors of different results to find the major factors that can affect results.
• Achiever: Be able to work hardly in field to insure results and on data collection.

Core Bayer Competences

• Relationships and Network: critical competence for this position requiring communicating and interacting properly with many different people and functions in the local team (other TDR,sales,CS,marketing). The TO must also be able to establish a strong network with growers and external technicians.
• Agility: Demonstrate capacity to work on different crops. Quick adaptation to changes within the team in term of way of working.The position will require some travel inside country
• Results Orientation: Critical competence too. Capacity to prioritize the tasks especially in full season. The TO has to set up the trials with discipline following the Mon Veg rules and recommendations (assessment template,replication,use of FTS…..).Results should be very accurate and report made on time to support TDR for variety advancement proposal.
• Initiative and foresight; The TO must react quickly to special trial situation and take some initiative in trial design and data collection when needed.The TO is expected to be: proactive, able to see and pursue opportunities for improvements, conduct observations beyond the expected protocol when relevant, able to effectively build and execute tasks and champion new ideas for protocols, products.
• Courage and Candor: Integrity is a must. The TO must be able to express his/her view in a productive way.TO must been able to defend constructively his/her view.