Assistant Breeder (m/w/d)

Field of Work: Research & Development

Location:

Einbeck, Lower Saxony, DE

Legal Entity: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA

Contract Type: Regular

Is Full Time?:

Onsite/ Remote:

Job ID: 16415

KWS is a leading international plant breeding company dedicated to improving crop yield, resilience, and sustainability. To further develop our Oilseed Rape (OSR) breeding program, we are seeking a motivated and well-organized Assistant Breeder (m/w/d) to contribute to the planning, coordination, and evaluation of multi-location breeding trials.

This position plays a key role in ensuring efficient trial execution, high-quality phenotypic data generation, and smooth collaboration across breeding services, breeding technologies, and operational teams.

This position is to be filled on a permanent basis, full-time and located in Einbeck (Lower-Saxony).

Your Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and execute yield and nursery trials, including sowing and harvesting activities using KWS’ in-house software.
• Design and continuously optimize the internal yield trials testing network based on phenotypic data quality, predictive performance, and official trial requirements.
• Ensure timely, complete, and error-free collection, upload, and analysis of phenotypic data across multiple trial locations and environments.
• Conduct preliminary data analyses to support rapid decision-making, seasonal planning, and ensure data readiness for downstream processes.
• Maintain accurate documentation of all field-, greenhouse-, data-, and application-related activities, ensuring traceability and data integrity in centralized systems.
• Collaborate closely with breeding services and greenhouse teams to coordinate production, sampling, and operational workflows.

Your Profile:

• Master’s degree in plant breeding, plant genetics, agronomy, or a closely related discipline with a solid understanding of plant breeding principles, quantitative genetics, and statistics.
• Strong organizational and time‐management skills combined with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. You are able to work independently while also collaborating effectively within diverse, cross‐-functional teams.
• Fluency in English and German is mandatory. Knowledge of additional languages, such as French, is an advantage and may be required depending on specific project needs.
• Valid Class B driver’s license and willingness to travel nationally and internationally (approximately 25%).
• Commitment to perform hands-on field work under varying weather conditions and to be flexible with working hours during the peak season (May to August).

What we offer

• As a family-owned company, we live a culture based on the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and foresight.
• True to our motto "Make yourself grow", we encourage individual professional and personal development.
• We create the right environment for you: Capital formation benefits, company pension plan, Christmas and holiday bonuses, childcare allowance, company bike.

Advance your career and grow with KWS! We look forward to receiving your digital application via our job portal

About KWS

KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development. For more information: www.kws.com/career . Follow us on LinkedIn® at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/ .
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