Trait Discovery Planner

Job description

Trait Discovery Planner The Trait Discovery Planner enables the delivery of Trait Discovery projects within Vegetables R&D by translating plans into structured, actionable tasks and ensuring that the right people, resources, and information are in place for execution. The role acts as a coordination hub across breeding, pathology, molecular lab, and operations teams, removing bottlenecks, maintaining planning visibility, and ensuring that timelines are understood and followed. Where workflows are absent or unclear, this role takes initiative to define and document them, creating the conditions for consistent and efficient execution by others. Scope: Global: TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Developing and maintaining forecasts that allow project milestones to be delivered and partner teams to plan their capacity effectively. This includes generating and adjusting genotyping, pathology, sequencing & FP, VQ lab, and CE & Field forecasts. The Planner monitors upcoming forecast cycles, flags emerging resource constraints, and facilitates forecast overview sessions to align capacity across functions. Exception requests and capacity adjustments are handled by the Planner as part of ongoing de...