About the Opportunity The Variety Development Lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will lead the R&D and Variety Development efforts for all berry crops in United Kingdom, Europe, and Africa. In this role, you will ensure efficient and effective trialing and deployment of new varieties that achieve the strategic and operational objectives of the target regions across EMEA. Through proven people leadership and technical expertise, you will provide programmatic guidance to a strawberry breeder managing two UK-based strawberry breeding programs and a small team of variety development managers overseeing global variety development pipelines for all four berries across the EMEA region. Strong collaboration with colleagues in the breeding nursery and EMEA test plots will be key to your team’s success. Through your leadership, you will develop and maintain coordinated relationships with the global breeding directors and business-facing product leaders across all four berry crops. Careful coordination with applied research colleagues and trials is necessary to build upon breeding knowledge for effective commercial deployment of new varieties that are differentiated in consumer delight and grower profitability.