Senior General Manager (Bio R&D Pest & Disease of Agriculture Crops)
Job responsibilities :
- Bio R&D works on providing solutions for various pest and disease problems of agricultural crops.
- Establishment of pilot scale and production scale facilities for new molecules, new products and microbials
- Conceptualise new products and projects
- Improvement of existing products and formulations
- Identify suitable areas of research for future growth
- Identify suitable Research Institutes in India and abroad for collaborative research
- Conduct collaborative research with various research institutes in India and abroad
- Provide global perspective in the areas of agriculture and related areas to Senior Management team
- Provide technical support to domestic and international marketing teams
- Planning and timely implementation of Capex items
- Establish close working relationship with Central Insecticide Board, National Referral labs and State Agricultural Universities and Agricultural departments
Capabilities :- Business orientation
- Design thinking mentality with good listening skills
- Hands on experience in Chemistry, Entomology, Microbiology and Biochemistry fields
- Active participation in strategic decision making process
- Ability to maintain discussions with a network of experts on technical topics, in order to increase the technical competence of the Scientists
- Expertise in analytical, communication and presentation skills
- Multicultural
- Mobility ; Willing to travel for 10 - 15 days a month
- Well versed in working with people from various functional areas and cultural background
Qualification : B.Sc (Ag), M.Sc (Ag- Microbiology), Ph.D (Microbiology) ; Full time
Experience : - More than 20 years out of which 10 years in senior position
- Should have cleared at least two competitive exams in the National level out of which one will be ASRB NET / CSIR - UGC NET
- Expertise in the areas of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Entomology, Microbiology, Fermentation
- Experience in transfer of technology from Lab level to production level.
- Experience in establishing fermentation based pilot scale facility and manufacturing facility
- Experience in establishing R&D centres and leading the same
- Experience in registration and regulatory activities of pesticides and biostimulants
- Should have experience with CIB &RC registration