Jobbeschreibung
KWS is one of the world's leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.5 billion in the fiscal year 2021/2022. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants' resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €285 million last fiscal year in research and development.For KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA, we are looking for a Breeding Information Specialist (m/f/d) to start as soon as possible. As member of the Breeding Information Team, you will contribute to documentation management, data curation, user support, training and software implementations across crops. This is a temporary position limited to 12 months and on a part-time basis (20 hours/weekly). The workplace can be at our headquarters in Einbeck (Lower Saxony) or, alternatively, hybrid working from Berlin.
Your new challenges:
- Draft technical documentation (process maps, QM handbooks, master data, data dictionaries, etc.).
- Prepare documentation like user manuals, presentation, and videos, to facilitate the learning of software tools in breeding
- Curate historical data sets and perform data transformation to fit them in the new software tools
- Assist with the organization of software implementation across crops in the breeding stations
- Participate in the 1st level support of software tools for breeding
- Administrate document libraries in collaborative repositories (Sharepoint, Teams, One Drive, etc)
- Support with coordination of special activities in the team (meetings, events, calendars, onboarding, etc)
- Identify opportunities to standardize, digitalize, and automate documentation management and knowledge management
- B.Sc./M.Sc. degree in life sciences, computer science or related areas
- Experience in documentation management and/or information management
- Experience with process mapping in professional tools (Visio, Signavio, etc)
- Knowledge of tools to prepare e-learning (e.g. WalkMe, Camtasia, Stream, etc)
- Knowledge of plant breeding processes is highly desirable
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional and international teams
- Excellent communication skills in English (written and oral), German or other languages are a plus
- Motivated to implement digital tools
- Service-oriented, structured, organized and team player
- As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and vision - a culture that is also lived in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly work atmosphere.
- According to our slogan: "Make Yourself Grow!" we promote individual professional and personal development.
- Working in an international, highly motivated and dynamic team with flat hierarchies.
- Flexible working hours with the possibility of mobile working (hybrid).
- We offer excellent work equipment, a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen and a direct train connection as well as refund on the Deutschland-Ticket (public transport costs).
- We create the appropriate framework conditions for you: a company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and a job bike option.
- Health & Safety are very important for us: our company doctor, company fire brigade / paramedics (with time credit) and company sports create a solid base for this