Sr. Research Associate - Genotyping Operations at Benson Hill, Inc in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

About Benson Hill
Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, tasty and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill's CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process. This platform allows for cost-effective and more efficient ways for companies to analyze and make improvements in plant genetics. Benson Hill brings a unique and holistic approach to our product and platform development, as we span a broader workflow involving trait and seed development, genome editing, and breeding all the way to creating better ingredients and varieties that tap a strong consumer demand for more flavorful and nutritious fruits and vegetables. More information can be found online atwww.bensonhill.com. Follow us on Twitter at@BensonHillInc.

Our Purpose and Core Values

Our Core Values are a set of common principles we share that are fundamental to our company's identity.

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  Be Bold! We redefine boundaries by providing new solutions to difficult problems. Together we are driven to transform the future and will not allow the fear of failure to prevent us from innovating. We voice our opinions, embrace change, and challenge each other to think creatively.


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  Be Inspired! We have purpose in our work-we are curious, engaged, and have fun. We maintain an active learning mindset and are motivated by diverse people and thoughts. We are energized by all innovators and together we aim to make an impact and contribute to building a better world.


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  Be Real! We understand who we are, what we want to achieve, and what it takes to get there. We hold each other accountable through timely, candid, and well-intentioned feedback. Together we engage in honest communication and healthy debate that leads to success through true alignment.

We are actively seeking a Senior Research Associate (SRA) to join our Genotyping team to support the growth of our production capabilities at Benson Hill. The SRA will be accountable for understanding partner genotyping needs via forecasting and communicate it effectively to the Production team. The SRA will be action-oriented to ensure all projects arrive on time, they are within the lab's capacity and ensure that data is delivered on-time. The SRA will monitor and communicate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for forecasting accuracy, data on-time delivery, as well as quality. The SRA will collaborate cross-functionally with our partners to gather feedback and generate corrective actions to ensure business needs are being met. The candidate will be accountable for continual improvement in the forecasting space and well as improving relationships with partners to streamline Operations across teams.

You will:

Responsibilities include:

• Monitor and execute on a production forecast


• Communicate effectively with the Genotyping Production team


• Collaborate with customers to ensure business needs are met


• Continual improvement on Genotyping Operations


• Effectively communicate results in written and visual formats for our KPIs


• Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced lab environment


• Apply critical thinking to adapt plans and make decisions without all the information

Education/Experience

• Bachelor of Science in Plant biology, Life Sciences, or related field with 2+ years of experience in a production lab setting


• Strong proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint, Smartsheet


• Experience in strategic planning, critical thinking, execution on plans effectively


• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional and multi-functional teams to achieve common goals


• Experience in GLP, ISO or similar quality management-driven lab environment


• Experience in Genotyping is preferred, but not required

• Ability to work & collaborate with different teams and to develop/manage key relationships.


• Familiarity with smartsheet, excel, Quicksight, Spotfire, etc. to pull data and create visualizations


• Organized, attention and detailed oriented


• Process improvement mindset with a strong drive to simplify complex operations


• 1 year experience in multiple genotyping platforms (NGS, MAS)

• Uses data to drive decision making and assess performance


• Strong individual contributor


• Ability to focus and work across multiple teams


• Demonstrates strong communication skills