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Research Center Leader at Corteva Agriscience | LAYIQ

As Research Center Leader, you will: Lead the vision, strategy, operations, and performance of a multi-crop, multi-functional agricultural research center.
Build, coach, and develop a high performing team while fostering a culture of safety, inclusion, collaboration, and accountability.
Partner with scientific, technical, operational, and business stakeholders to advance innovation and research excellence.
Serve as the primary leader and integrator across site activities, helping align expectations, priorities, and resources.
Create meaningful experiences for customers, industry partners, universities, community members, and visitors through field tours, demonstrations, events, and educational engagements.
Oversee site resources including facilities, equipment, land, infrastructure, budgets, and long-term capability planning.
Champion world-class safety, stewardship, compliance, quality, and operational excellence.
Lead and execute a portfolio of field research trials during the site's growth phase, including planning, implementation, assessment, data collection, interpretation, and reporting.
Why This Role Matters
As Research Center Leader, you will help transform scientific concepts into practical solutions while creating an environment where researchers, customers, partners, and other parties can collaborate to address the evolving challenges of agriculture.
You will play a key role in building a premier research destination that demonstrates innovation, fosters learning, advances scientific discovery, and creates value for agriculture around the world.
To Grow What Matters, You Will Need
PhD or MS in Agronomy, Weed Science, Plant Pathology, Entomology, Nematology, Crop Science, Plant Biology, Agricultural Engineering, or a related discipline with significant relevant leadership experience; or a BS degree with extensive directly related experience.
Experience leading an agricultural research site or facility, field research program, or similarly complex operation.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing people, including coaching, talent development, and performance management.
Experience managing operational budgets, facilities, equipment, infrastructure, and resources.
Strong knowledge of field research, experimental design, agronomic operations, scientific quality, and data integrity.
Demonstrated ability to independently design, execute, assess, interpret, and communicate field research trials.
Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder engagement, and relationship-building skills.
Valid driver's license and the ability to work safely in an agricultural research environment.
Authorization to work in the United States.

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