Technical Agronomist - Grapes

Main objective: Help producers and marketers to improve the yield of our crop varieties in their fields and maximize their profitability.

Responsibilities and Duties

• 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 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.

• Actively participate with teamwork, events, duties and participation, contributing to team success.