Breeder
Prominent De Lier (The Netherlands)
What is required?
- Completed bachelor or master’s degree in plant breeding and genetics
- Experience in plant breeding, genetics, statistical analysis, molecular biology and the application of molecular markers in plant breeding
- Good organisational skills, ability to achieve strong results
- Being able to communicate well and work in multidisciplinary teams
What will you get?
- From €2,500 gross p/m (depending on knowledge and experience)
- 40-hour working week
- 25 days annual leave
- Extensive development opportunities
What will you do?
- 70% Initiating and coordinating research projects
- 10% Visits to growers (worldwide) for tests and measurements
- 10% Contact scientists
- 10% Commercial activities
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Jessica Dedrog - van den Hoek
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Vacancy
As a Breeder at Totam Seeds (part of Prominent) you are responsible for the development and improvement of tomato hybrids. You work on breeding projects together with colleagues from the greenhouse and the sales department. You also have a lot of contact with scientists in the field of pathology and breeding technology. Above all, you have a coordinating and steering role. For example, you will plan sowing, planting, and create various F1’s and breeding crosses. You also ensure that the variety can be produced at any time.
You come up with research proposals and implement these. You create parent lines in order to develop or improve a variety. Your colleagues in the greenhouse take care of the plants, but you make sure that the seed is in the right place on time and act if necessary. Based on data and trials you determine whether the variety has potential. If this is the case, you involve your commercial colleagues.
Together you think about the roll-out of the variety to growers , local and international. Your commercial colleagues plan trials at growers and you keep a close eye on the results. That is why you regularly travel abroad for product and trial evaluations. Ultimately, you will make decisions about the future of the variety together with your commercial colleagues and the grower. You also have a lot of contact with other breeding communities worldwide to discuss improvement of breeding projects.
If you like working a lot with plants and seeds internationally, and you don't mind others commenting on your work and results, then this is a job for you.
Working week
Toon van de Ven
On a nice working day, a grower's results were better than expected and I attended an interesting conference.
On a less enjoyable day there is miscommunication. There has also been a mistake in the planning, as a result of which an assistant is unable to continue working.
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Firsthand experience
Growth
Once you are a breeder, you often continue to fulfill this role. In this profession, there is a lot of freedom, and at the same time you need extensive experience before you can master the profession properly. Of course, there are further growth opportunities: you can become Head Breeder and eventually hold a management position.
Working at Prominent
Prominent is an innovative specialist in tomatoes. It is our passion to enable every type of consumer to enjoy our healthy and tasty products on a daily basis. These products are grown by our growers; leading producers of top-quality tomatoes. Our organisation consists of three growers and 29 affiliated growers with a total of 420 hectares of tomatoes. The two packaging centres, Prominent De Lier and Prominent Maasland, pack 71 million kilos of tomatoes per year on fully automated packaging lines for the largest supermarket chains in Europe. Prominent is a product group within Coöperatie DOOR; members of the producer organisation Prominent are all also members of DOOR. This organisation is responsible for the sales and marketing of the product. All tomato growers within DOOR are in turn members of Prominent. DOOR "House of leading Brands" ensures that millions of people have access to healthy fruited vegetables: cucumber, tomatoes, block and point peppers and aubergines. With around 40 entrepreneurs and 600 hectares of glass, DOOR is a leading player. DOOR's focus is on sales, marketing, innovation and facilitating its members in numerous areas such as packaging, food safety and sustainability.
- Headquarters in Westland (The Netherlands)
- Deliveries throughout Europe
- 25% / 75%
- Average age: 39 years
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