R&D Manager

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Job Summary: This role involves managing experimental stations and R&D activities to develop agricultural solutions, ensuring quality, budget, and team development. Key Highlights: 1. Manage experimental stations and R&D in agrochemicals 2. Lead the development of agricultural products and solutions 3. Build a legacy and generate positive societal impact **Want to advance your career and be a driving force behind the growth of a company with an incredible future? If your answer is yes, then we’re looking for you!** At Ourofino Agrociência, we put our purpose of REIMAGINING BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURE into practice every day through the work of hundreds of people across Brazil and around the world. Our values perfectly reflect each member of our team: PASSIONATE ABOUT VICTORY, PEOPLE WHO SHINE, and INNOVATING FOR THE FUTURE. We make things happen—with courage, boldness, and enthusiasm—to consistently exceed results. **Learn more about this opportunity!** **Responsibilities and Duties** **Mission:** Ensure sustainable management of experimental stations, enabling research solutions, product development, technical positioning of products under development, innovation trials, official efficacy and residue trials—fully compliant with Ourofino’s SSMA & Q standards, regulatory requirements, and aligned with Marketing, PDI, and Regulatory Affairs, guaranteeing quality, quantity, schedule, budget, enhanced researcher relationships, and value generation for the company. Foster the development of a competent workforce through recruitment, planning, training, and employee motivation. **Key Responsibilities:** * Manage and ensure all internal and external R&D activities—including farm-based experimental and research teams, studies, trials, and experimental station management—to develop products and technical positions aligned with the company’s GAP and NEEDs and capable of generating corporate value. Covering ideation, proof-of-concept, TAP, RET, information gathering, protocols and trials, activity execution, reports, technical opinions, dossiers, reports, various meetings, and knowledge transfer * Identify market demands and assess the technical feasibility of developing new products and solutions for the company * Set clear and objective goals for R&D teams; monitor official studies, research, and development activities * Prepare technical approval presentations for new products backed by robust databases * Attend national and international congresses, symposia, and events to maintain continuous professional updating * Represent the company technically before Federal, State, Municipal agencies, and committees * Manage technical and personal relationships with researchers to add value to the company * Drive technical and behavioral development of the R&D team * Ensure adherence to and timely execution of Project Management workflows and schedules. **Requirements and Qualifications** * Degree in Agronomic Engineering; postgraduate degree in Business Management, Project Management, or related fields * Master’s degree in Phytopathology, Plant Protection, or related fields preferred * Experience in agrochemical R&D, team management, accreditation (IN 36/42), knowledge of IMETRO/BPL standards and Statistics preferred * Fluent English. **Additional Information** Your journey at Ourofino Agro starts now! Our purpose—to reimagine Brazilian agriculture—and our values—PASSIONATE ABOUT VICTORY, PEOPLE WHO SHINE, and INNOVATING FOR THE FUTURE—make us a company offering you a unique career opportunity! Here, **we take great pride in what we do**, because we have the chance to build a legacy for our country and generate positive societal impact! **Our work environment propels us even further**, always open to welcoming new ideas, fostering cooperation, and embracing calculated risk-taking. All this has helped us build **an incredible past**, achieving exceptional results in a remarkably short time—and will help us reach an **even better future**, as we remain **in constant transformation**, pursuing accelerated and sustainable growth, strategic partnerships, and, of course, a team of people who brought us here and grew alongside our company. They continue writing our story every day. And you—will you join us on this journey? Explore our annual report