Danziger- Trail Manager

Hiring Organization: Danziger
Employment type: Full-Time
Application Due Date: April 30, 2023

Trial Manager

Name of the Job

o   Trial Manager in Michigan

o   Conduct the yearly trials in Michigan and support other trials (including CAST)

o   Collection of the required data in each trial (will be defined).

Purpose of the job

o   Ohad Shelly Shafran , Global Product Manager

Direct Manager

Michigan -

NA Market Manger (Mike)
Grower of the site (Matthew)

Sales team NA

Product Bedding Manager

Brand Manager Bedding

VP R&D

R&D coordinator (Randy)

Organizational location and interfaces

Seasonal workers in the pick of the season

Subordinates

Creating and implementing yearly trials program

 

o   Planning the layout of the trials

o   Implementation of the yearly trials of all the product lines – including annuals, perennial (including overwinter) and indoor.

o   Flowering trails- Finishing pot, Garden performance and hanging baskets:

Rooting, planting, growing, pinching, PGR, treatments - insecticide, fungicide, irrigation, fertilization

  • Other growth conditions

 

Support other trial locations:

 

o   CAST – support the team with the ongoing activities in Gilroy for California Spring trials and Home Depot event.

o   Special trials for commercial products (based on NA Marker Manager targets)

Areas of Responsibility

       

Operation and Maintenance of the site :

 

o   Order of the side – maintenance of all the greenhouses

o   Maintenance and order of all the garden outside

o   Prepare the site for open days for visitors.

 

 

 

Data collection -

o   Documentation all the activities in each trial.

o   Mark important activities throughout the cultivation

o   Taking photos of trials and comparison trials

o   Phenome (in a coordination with R&D coordinator if needed).

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Requirements

o   Languages –English

o   Travelling – mainly to California once a month between Nov-Apr

o   Organization

 

·         Conducting all the trials in the yearly program on time, with a good cultivation throughout the year

·         Mark and document all the defined data in all trials

·         The site is organized and up to date with all the maintenance and growing activities

·         Good performance of the trails in California    

Success factors

Office, Phenome

System requirements

 

Department Information

Students

Research Focus Areas

Our Gardens

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