Global Technical Services Agronomist, Mexico

Sun World International is a California-based agriculture and technology firm engaged in fruit variety development, technology, intellectual property, and licensing. Its technology and IP pursuits include one of the world’s leading fruit breeding/genetics programs, a broad-based portfolio of plant patents and trademarks, and investments in agriculture technology start-ups benefiting our global licensees. Licensing consists of sharing new proprietary stone fruit and table grape varieties, and the IP they comprise, with like-minded fruit growers and marketers in more than 15 countries around the world. The Company prizes creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Its people strive for excellence by demonstrating leadership, passion, kindness, authenticity, courage, initiative, and curiosity. We are growing, come and join us**Overview**: The Agronomist’s job is to assist growers and marketers improve the performance of our company’s proprietary varieties on their farms and maximize the profitability of these varieties, as well as carry out applied research on our commercial and new varieties.**Responsibilities**:- Perform regular visits to designated commercial farms where our company’s proprietary varieties are grown under license, evaluate the varieties’ performance, estimate yield, monitor fruit quality, identify technical challenges, provide growers with technical support, and follow up on its implementation and progress. Also, be able to generate technical reports, for both, growers (after visits) and internal (after trips or summarizing the season).- Conduct and execute field trials aimed at creating new knowledge needed to overcome technical challenges that limit yield and/or fruit quality of our company’s proprietary varieties. This includes trial design, data collection, data analysis and final report.- Optimize SW Success by assisting with new pipeline variety evaluation and test block trial managements, developing guidelines for best cultural practices for these varieties.- Develop and implement various channels of communications with our company’s licensees in the region, such as Chat groups, webinars, broadcasting, newsletters, and field days and use these channels to deliver valuable technical information at relevant times during the season.- Maintain consistent and productive relationships with entities and professionals who may contribute to our company’s success, such as government and private researchers, extension service, farm advisors, growers’ associations & committees, etc.- Optimize data intelligence and support building of a technology system, through constant search, and evaluation of technologies that may be beneficial to our company and/or to our licensees.- Support Licensing Manager with information needed for best business management.- Actively participate with the GTS team, events, duties and participation, contributing to team success.- International travel: Possibly 2 trips per year (15-20 days max total) in 2 regions with active Sun World planting (one trip to California).- Further trips might be decided according to needs of training, meetings and relevant company needs.- This position requires approximately 30% sitting, and 70% standing and walking. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Lifting up to 15 kg is sometimes required. Equipment used is computer, copier, phone, laboratory equipment, and backpack sprayer.**Requirements**:- M.Sc. degree in Agronomy along with a minimum of 1 year of experience (as a technical/applied researcher, agronomist, or farm advisor).- Will also consider those with a B.Sc. along with a minimum of 3 years of experience (as a technical/applied researcher, agronomist, or farm advisor). Applicable internships or school projects will be counted towards the experience requirement.- Outstanding verbal and non-verbal communicational skills, in English and Spanish.- A high level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.- High flexibility and mobility, readiness to travel, willingness to work during non-standard hours and on weekends/holidays if necessary.- Organized, good at documenting and retrieving data, files, and reports.- High level problem solving skills, a keen eye for detail.- High level of confidentiality and ability not to disclose farm and company information.- An understanding of procedures, responsibilities, and systems.- Exceptional time management skills and organizational ability, with the skill to multi-task and prioritize tasks. Ability to seek and suggest improvements.- Curious, investigational in his/her DNA, always willing to try and learn something new.- A pleasant personality, gets along well with colleagues, clients and with those with whom they report to.Work schedule: Sun World does not currently have an office in Mexico; however, there will be in the future. Until an