Syngenta Field Biologist Job Opening – Apply Now
Job role – Field Biologist
Location – Karnal, Haryana, India
Job Description –
Role Purpose :
- Conduct in-house trials mainly on Hub and surrounding areas by participating in country trial plan
- Maintain overall development of Hub
- Participate in technical support activities and product development activities.
Develop trial plan based on country plan, implement it. - Develop contact farmers for conducting in-house trials for product testing.
Participation in Country Product registration plan by conducting trials in assigned territory. - Market and competitors activities in territory.
- Need based Technical support to sales team and SBU on request.
Accountabilities:
- Conduct, evaluation and reporting on field trials ensuring these meet development priorities, budgets, time frames and goals.
- Participation in data reviews meetings. Data interpretation, data presentation and support in taking decisions on product development activities.
- Selecting contact farmers, selecting right locations for trials to ensure successful trials. Making fall back arrangements in case of trial failure.
- Lead, coordination, planning and active participation to ensure all resource availability for conducting in-house and registration trials.
- Participate and challenge protocols based on local pest, disease, farmers expectations.
- Coordination with State Agriculture Universities, ICAR institutes and other recognized institutes, with in territory, for conducting registration trials as per country plan.
- Conducting registration trials. Collecting reports on time, giving indication to HO on product performance from time to time. Ensure good quality reports.
- Coordinate / Influence scientist for undertaking registration trials and for report availability as per timeline.
- Interaction with sales colleagues, extending technical support when requested.
Keeping track of competitor’s activities, with in company code of conduct. Keeping HO informed. - Regular reporting on trials and product performance.
- Keeping watch on crop /pest / new pest problems in territory. Keeping HO reported on these aspects.
- Managing within given budget.
Critical Success Factors & Key Challenges :
Technical knowledge:
- Research and replicated trial conducting skills.
- roduct evaluation skills, data collection and data interpretation skills.
- Basic knowledge of pesticide chemicals.
- Crop, pest, customers need in territory.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Influencing and negotiation with farmers.
Knowledge, Experience & Capabilities for Agriculture Sciences Job as Biologist :
- Technical knowledge, Basic Business knowledge. Coordination skills.
Qualifications –
Critical knowledge
- Post Graduate in Agriculture Sciences, preferably in crop protection.
- Sound Knowledge of Agriculture in territory covering crops, pests, pest incidence time.
- Exposure and experience in field trial conducting.
- Crop, pest, geographies, customer (farmer) knowledge.
- Basic knowledge on Product registration preferred.
Critical Experience
- 4-8 years’ experience working in the field as trialist.
- Basic knowledge of crops, pests, diseases, and weeds.
Critical Technical, Professional, And Personal Capabilities –
- Understanding of local languages, interaction with farmers, influencing farmers.
- Coordination and interpersonal skills.
- Capability to accept challenges work hard and achieve accepted goals.
- Self-motivation and ambitions.
- Ability to accept challenges and achieve results under pressure.
- Good written, oral communication and presentation skills.
- Good computer skills including word processing, presentation preparation.
- High level of integrity.
- Accept challenges. Participate with full energy in achieving accepted goals.
- Understand departmental expectations.
- Ambition to performance to high standards.
- Self-development.