Breeding Specialist (Corn / Maize) - Delmas

Corteva Agriscience

Full-time Bio & Pharmacology & Health
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Location
delmas, mpumalanga, South-Africa
Posted
July 17, 2026

Job Description

We’re hiring for a Breeding Specialist (Corn / Maize) , based in Delmas.

As a Breeding Specialist, you will play a critical role in accelerating the delivery of innovative genetic solutions to farmers across Africa. Partnering with breeding, research, and operations teams, you will help advance new genetics from early‑stage development to inbred line release, ensuring excellence in execution, quality, and timely delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with global Corn breeding colleagues to develop and deliver products for the African market.
  • Ensure on‑time and high‑quality execution of breeding program nurseries, testing networks, and phenotyping activities across all research centers and teams involved, with emphasis on later‑stage work from inbred line coding through to product advancement.
  • Facilitate interactions and global seed logistics between breeding programs, trait integration, genotyping, regional seed productio...