Crop Science Lead

Ready to take cutting-edge plant science beyond the laboratory and into the field?I am recruiting a Crop Science Lead for an established international vegetable seed business with an exciting ambition: to use advanced crop science and breeding technologies to accelerate the development of the next generation of commercial vegetable varieties.Reporting directly to the Director of RandD, you will lead a small laboratory research team and play a central role in shaping the company''s future scientific capability. One of your most important challenges will be to develop and expand gene-editing capabilities across key vegetable crops, while ensuring laboratory innovation translates into meaningful outcomes for breeders, growers and ultimately the commercial market.If you want your science to have a visible, practical impact on real-world agriculture, this is an opportunity worth exploring. The OpportunityThis is not a role where you will simply inherit a programme and keep it running.You will have the opportunity to help shape how advanced crop science is used within the business, introducing new methodologies, solving complex scientific challenges and connecting laboratory research directly with established breeding programmes.Working closely with plant breeders, agronomists, seed production, seed quality, product development and commercial colleagues, you will lead research targeting traits including:Disease resistanceClimate resilienceYield improvementFlavourNutritional ..... full job details .....