*description*:
*activities*
- collaborate with leadership to develop and communicate key initiatives and messages to their site and region
- motivate and empower the team to take ownership in their processes and drive continuous improvement
- build and grow a strong safety culture to assure employee safety is always highest priority every day and, in any task, performed
- establish priorities with partners at site and manage activities and resources based on those priorities
- implement and effectively utilize new technologies and processes
- ensure alignment of cross functional expectations
- ensure alignment of cross functional expectations
- collaborate with other mexico r&d centers to optimize processes and responsibilities to assure delivery for mexico, us, canada and european breeding programs and strategies, as well as other groups who are dependent on the site
- identify and manage issues associated with maintaining ability to operate within local community as well as local, regional, and federal policies and laws
- drive continuous improvement at the site and regularly share key findings and opportunities with other sites to assure consistency and/or standardization to achieve expected results while maintaining costs per unit of production at reasonable and sustainable levels
- deliver against r&d expectations for quality, quantity, and timing
- recognize individual and team accomplishments
- delegate operational leadership and responsibilities as appropriate
- forecast budget and capital needs based on workload and delivery
- identify and build a talent pipeline for the site
- assure development planning, coaching and critical conversations are occurring, plans are professional development plans are documented and progress is made
- assure strong relationship with meso-andean business teams
- build industry relations with regional, country, and local agriculture groups
- be involved with community events, media, etc.as appropriate and within the strategies of corteva
*qualifications*:
- minimum of five years of demonstrated success in people leadership, experience withmanagement of a complex site including successful management of full-time employees and seasonal staff
- proven success in building a strong safety and ethics culture
- strong decision-making, prioritization, and problem-solving skills
- strong understanding of seed product development processes
- strong computer skills related to data acquisition, organization, and analysis
- broad knowledge of crop production and farming practices
- agronomy, breeding or relevant degree: phd or master's degree preferred or bachelor's degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience
- spanish and english fluency
- consistent demonstration of excellent communication skills
- good working knowledge of research operations
- ability to delegate
- valid driver's license.
driving record will be reviewed and must meet corteva expectations
- ability to lead leaders and influence/collaborate cross-functionally