Operation research scientist -Tropics
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Role purpose
This role focuses on complex business processes and operations within Seed Research & Development. This role will identify inefficiencies and harmonize workflows across global sites in Trialing and nursery. This role will define and implement global KPI s for cost cycle time throughput and quality enabling benchmarking across geographies. This role supports short-term efficiency gains and long-term innovation scalability. The role drives operational efficiency and effectiveness by developing implementing and maintaining algorithmic solutions based on Operations Research / Mathematical Optimization techniques.
Accountabilities
- Build and implement optimization models multi-objective and robust optimization techniques.
- Design and create user-friendly GUIs (Graphical user interface) reports and data visualizations to facilitate the execution of data-driven optimization models and scenario comparisons by the end-user.
- Identify relevant business KPIs and metrics that drive optimization objectives.
- Run simulations to validate optimization models.
- Manage projects focused on the development and implementation of optimization solutions to support strategic decisions and day-to-day operations.
- Collaborate with various departments and communicate effectively with line-of-business end-users to review current operational systems and business procedures within seeds development discover pain points and identify mathematical optimization use-cases.
- Prepare management reports that clearly define and analyze issues and recommend solutions to help management make informed decisions.
- Discuss and analyze the impact of Operations Research solutions with different stakeholders such as managers and subject matter experts across the various departments.
- Follow an agile way of working.
- Contribute to the development of technical training offerings and curricula to support effective implementation and awareness of Operations Research capabilities.
- Defines the operation research operation standards and will ensure that all procedures are followed.
- Accountable for the results of the operations research projects from respective countries across Tropics
- Needs to work very closely with the Trialing nursery Germplasm development and the DH teams across Tropics RD organisation.
Qualifications :
- 5 years demonstrable applied experience in implementation of Operations or lab functions
- A proven track record on working in a science-based environment
Critical technical professional and personal capabilities
- Ability to work in teams and across geographies
- Problem-solving skills identify complex business problems evaluate the application of Operations Research techniques and implement decision-support solutions
- Experience with programming languages such as C/C/C# Python
- Some experience in data visualization with Tableau Power BI or similar
- Strong written and oral English communication skills
- Analytical Mind-set
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Machine Learning
- Python
- AI
- Bioinformatics
- C/C++
- R
- Biochemistry
- Research Experience
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Molecular Biology
About Company
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