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Saint Charles, Mo, Us

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Main responsibilities are to steer Cyber Security Risk Management's (CSRM) strategic direction based on divisional business, digital strategy, and risk profile. In addition , proactively identify information security deficiencies and/or opportunities for improvement and facilitate implementation of those solutions.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Acts globally as a trusted advisor and contact for Digital Transformation (DT) and IT with a focus on lab digitalization, R&D automation, quality and manufacturing IT security within the Product Supply Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence (EMEX) organization. Supports to orchestrate the stakeholder engagement between IT and the corresponding EMEX organizations and provides the adequate capabilities and roadmaps. Acts as IT business partner for the management of the R&D sites in North America Responsible for conceptual experienced designs, business architectures, redesigning business processes, developing transformation plans and improving user experience to ensure the implementation the digital agenda in terms of lab digitalization, R&D automation, quality and manufacturing IT security within EMEX organization and supports the Digital Transition and implementing data driven approaches together with the business and IT functions in the mentioned working areas.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Developing and maintaining business capabilities of the enterprise while keeping them in line with the corporate strategy as well as contributing to the business strategy and plans. This includes design of capability models and related architectural solutions of business tasks, mapping capability functionality to the internal and external resources, developing business transformation plans jointly with senior business management, handling business solutions to the delivery and operational business functions of the company, developing and maintaining architectural governance and controls over implementation.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Designed and implement a new generic DNA workflow to support the Global Supply Chain Quality lab Accountable for driving strategic vision, implementation, and integration of systems within the Grower Operations platform specifically focused on material shipping, inventory management, regulated movement compliance, and maintaining field compliance for USDA/EPA and Stewarded material. Created collaborative alignment between Global Supply Chain and provide a road-map and development plan to expand our movement compliance systems to include international shipment capabilities. Expanded the field compliance questionnaire to Brazil, Argentina, and Chile while with Regulatory Sciences to create a design and transition plan for replacing antiquated sample management/protocol application thereby establishing the framework to merge multiple tools into one system.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Work as a liaison with multi-functional, multi-crop Technology organizationMaintain a vision for the future of research and data analysis systems and keep in lock-step with ongoing research activities across multiple R&D divisionsResponsible for Coordination and communication to convey a clear vision and guidance for software development teams to implement the right solutionResponsible for the overall success of the IT solution being developed or maintainedWork collaboratively with interdisciplinary scientists internal and external to Monsanto by addressing emerging changes in the Monsanto R&D pipeline Ensure that the IT platforms continuously evolve along with and innovate within a specific functional area spanning biotechnology, breeding, data analytics, or field operations

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Strategized with the TCR team in developing process plan and the framework for the new TCR/Immunodiagnostics LIMS systemDesign, translate, and prioritize systems solutions for incorporation into software used by our R&D organizations specifically Orion, TCR/EXP LIMS, and the Cotton Breeding LIMS. To then translate and effectively communicate these complex concepts to a broad audience. Actively developed a replacement strategy for the Residue Information Management System including scoping out the as is and to be workflows and cost estimationsWorked in a liaison relationship with our multi-functional, multi-crop Technology organization, our research labs, interdisciplinary scientists (internal and external to Monsanto), and our information technology organizationPartnered with the R&D organizations to understand the business drivers, immediate and long-term opportunities. Identify systems solutions, and define requirements for software platform development then interact with software developers, technical architects, business analysts, testers and support personnel to develop, deploy and support these solutions

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Responsible for project planning and implementing strategy changes within the team while maintianing tight timelines to meet aggressive business deliverables for not only the TCR team but other Regulatory groups (Agronomy, Product Saftey Center, and Product Caracterization Center)Managed a 2x fold increase in sample throughput within the lab for two years while minimally increasing headcountStrategized with the LIMS TPS team in developing process plan and the framework for the new TCR/Immunodiagnostics LIMS systemMaintianed constant communication with the labs customers to anticipate emerging challenges and develop plans to meet their buisness needs

Performed real time PCR to indentify the advintitious events present in test, control, and reference material used in a majority of Regulatory studies Responsible for development, automation, and maintenance of a sample databases for tracking results, inventory, and generation of TCR specific worksheets.Coordinated the day to day running of the lab and project plans

Worked closely with the Monsanto IT team to develop and implement an inventory management system that is currently used Regulatory wide.Coordinated the sample preparation lab which is responsible for supplying cross functional Regulatory groups with research samples.Maintained the daily operations, project management, and supervising/training of several contract personnel Communicated closely with customers to ensure their business needs were met in a timely manner

Performed residue analysis on numerous raw agricultural commodities to determine residual levels of common herbicides and their metabolitesModified residue methods in animal products to meet changing demand of European customers Performed proximate analysis on several transgenic potato linesDeveloped GC method for the separation and quantification of seven primary fatty acids in an algaNutritional supplement Managed several overlapping 3 and 6 month pharmaceutical dose preparation processesand large quantity scale ups Conducted numerous 3 - 6 week full metabolism studies including CO2 collectionDeveloped GC/LC methods for the determination of surfactant in rodent diet and water Prepared goat liver/kidney tissues (S-9, microsomes and cystol fragments)Successfully developed herbicide metabolite extraction techniques for wheat samples and Method development for ground water analysis Primary Assistant in the development of a multiresidue detection method for sulfonylurea and imidazolinones in water