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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in entomology and weed science, leading late-stage discovery and early-development programs for insecticides and herbicides. Capable of synthesizing complex datasets into actionable recommendations while ensuring compliance with quality, stewardship, and biosafety standards.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Scientific LeadershipTechnical Knowledge of Conventional ChemistryExperience in Late-Stage Discovery ProgramsAbility to Synthesize Complex DatasetsExpertise in Insect and Weed Screening
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Hard Skills
EntomologyWeed ScienceConventional ChemistryBiologicalsFormulationsSeed TreatmentsData IntegrityDose-Response ScreeningField Methods DevelopmentRisk Assessment
Soft Skills
Coaching and DevelopmentResource AllocationNetworking
Tools & Technologies
Laboratory MethodsControlled-Environment TechniquesGreenhouse MethodsField Screening Platforms
Industry Keywords
BiosafetyStewardshipQuality StandardsResistance ManagementPortfolio Management
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead UPL's global late-stage discovery, early-development, and portfolio decisions for insecticides and herbicides
- Translate business, grower, resistance-management, and portfolio needs into an entomology and weed science roadmap
- Define evidence requirements and recommend advance, refine, partner, or stop decisions
- Provide technical leadership across conventional chemistry, biologicals, combinations, formulations, seed treatments, and enabling technologies
- Build, govern, validate, standardize, and continuously improve screening platforms from laboratory through field
- Ensure studies are biologically relevant, reproducible, statistically sound, and transferable across sites and partners
- Establish quality, stewardship, biosafety, permit, recordkeeping, and data-integrity expectations
- Coach and develop scientists and technical staff and build succession and cross-training
- Allocate resources against portfolio priorities while balancing speed, quality, and cost
- Build networks with regional development teams, universities, CROs, technology partners, and professional societies
- Lead evaluation and validation of external technologies and partnerships
- Synthesize datasets into technical positions, risk assessments, and recommendations for R&D, Category, Portfolio, Regulatory, IP, Formulation, Manufacturing, and Commercial stakeholders
- Define agronomic value propositions, technical differentiation, development fit, evidence needs, and uncertainties
- Initiate experiments to reduce technical and field-translation uncertainty
Requirements
What you’ll need- Scientific and people leadership across entomology and weed science
- Experience leading late-stage discovery and early-development programs across insecticides and herbicides
- Technical knowledge of conventional chemistry, biologicals, combinations, formulations, seed treatments, and enabling technologies
- Expertise in insect, mite, weed, crop-safety, dose-response, spectrum, residual, rainfastness, resistance, and environmental-condition screening
- Ability to develop, validate, standardize, and improve laboratory, insectary, controlled-environment, greenhouse, and field methods
- Knowledge of quality, stewardship, biosafety, permits, recordkeeping, and data integrity requirements
- Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary scientists and technical staff
- Ability to allocate people, facilities, budgets, test organisms, germplasm, and field resources
- Experience working with regional development teams, universities, CROs, technology partners, and professional societies
- Ability to synthesize complex datasets into technical positions, risk assessments, and decision-ready recommendations
- Ability to evaluate external technologies, technical differentiation, development potential, risks, and evidence gaps
- Ability to anticipate technical gaps, emerging pests and weeds, resistance trends, assay limitations, and field-translation risks