Research Data Associate
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Job Summary
At Syngenta our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers success. The Research Data Associate is responsible for managing analyzing and optimizing research and trialing data to support Syngentas trialing and product placement activities across Europe. This role ensures data accuracy develops automated reporting solutions and drives innovation in digital tools and analytical workflows. The successful candidate will work closely with trialing product placement and data scientists to deliver actionable insights improve operational efficiency and enable data-driven decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
1. Data & Database Management
- Maintain high-quality research and trialing databases.
- Use SQL to retrieve combine and transform data from multiple sources.
- Connect diverse databases to support analytical projects.
- Automate data processes to reduce manual work duplication and errors.
2. Reporting & Analytics
- Analyze trialing and research data with product placement and agronomy experts.
- Develop and maintain automated dashboards and reports combining multiple data sources.
- Support assessment of commercial performance genetic progress registration status and budget tracking.
- Translate complex data into clear actionable insights.
3. Experiment & Trial Support
- Act as a key expert for experiment creation material management and experimental design.
- Support GIS analysis spatial visualization and data interpretation.
- Ensure experiments follow statistical and agronomic best practices.
- Serve as a regional contact for digital research tools and liaise with software development teams.
4. Data Collection & Processing
- Support and pilot advanced phenotyping solutions (robots drones sensors).
- Analyze and interpret phenotypic data (e.g. plant populations herbicide injury stress indicators).
- Contribute to protocols and scalable automated data collection workflows.
- Support adoption of data science big data and AI-based approaches in agricultural research.
5. Digital Tools & Innovation
- Act as regional tools expert and trainer for product placement and trialing teams.
- Test validate and implement new digital tools (e.g. SAP thresholds phenotyping fleet management).
- Propose improvements to experimental designs and workflows.
- Manage phenotyping equipment and coordinate drone data acquisition.
- Support adoption of machine learning and AI-based analysis.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science Agronomy GIS Statistics or related discipline.
- 3 years of experience in agricultural research data management or analytics.
- Proficiency in database management systems and data visualization tools (Power BI Tableau GIS software).
- Experience with experimental design and statistical analysis in agricultural research.
- Familiarity with agronomy & breeding and phenotyping technologies preferred.
Technical Skills
- Advanced Excel SQL and data automation scripting (Python/R).
- GIS mapping and spatial analysis expertise.
- Experience with drone imagery processing and integration.
- Knowledge of machine learning applications in agriculture.
Leadership & Collaboration Skills
- Strong organizational and project management abilities.
- Excellent communication and training skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional multicultural teams.
- Problem-solving mindset with focus on innovation.
Additional Information :
What we offer:
- Dynamic and international team with great atmosphere
- Possibilities to learn and grow
- High quality office environment
- Hybrid work (office and home)
- Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- ELISA
- Immunoassays
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Cell Biology
- Research Experience
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Microscopy
- Research Laboratory Experience
- Western Blot
About Company
To help feed 10 billion people while reducing emissions and improve biodiversity. This is our mission as the global agriculture technology leader. With 59,000 employees in more than 100 countries and hundreds of thousands of agricultural partners worldwide, we are committed to transfo ... View more
