Bioinformaticien | Bioinformatician

Le Groupe Florimond Desprez sélectionne des variétés et produit des semences pour répondre aux besoins des
agriculteurs de grandes cultures, des filières agro-industrielles et des consommateurs, tout en s’inscrivant
activement dans la transition agroécologique. Le groupe sélectionne principalement des espèces destinées à
l’alimentation humaine et est un des leaders mondiaux en semences de betterave sucrière. Il se situe parmi les
premiers semenciers européens en céréales à paille et est un acteur significatif du plant de pomme de terre en
Europe. Florimond Desprez est une entreprise familiale et indépendante, présente dans 65 pays, qui consacre 15% de son chiffre d’affaires à la recherche et emploie 1 200 personnes.

United Beet Seeds (UBS) est une joint-venture entre le Groupe Florimond Desprez et DLF Seeds A/S. Basée en
Belgique, l’entreprise emploie plus de 900 personnes dans le monde.

Groupe Florimond Desprez breeds varieties and produces seeds to meet the needs of arable crop farmers,
the agro-industrial sectors and consumers, while actively supporting the agro-ecological transition. The
group mainly works with species intended for human consumption and is a world leader in sugar beet
seeds, a leading European breeder of straw cereal and a major player in the European seed potato market.
Florimond Desprez is an independent family-owned company founded in 1830 that operates in 65
countries, devotes 15% of its sales to research and employs 1200 persons.

United Beet Seeds (UBS) is a joint venture between Groupe Florimond Desprez and DLF Seeds A/S. Headquartered in Belgium, the company employs over 900 people worldwide.

Your key responsibilities

  • Analysing different kinds of omics data on our different crops
  • Developing tools, pipelines and software to support plant and molecular breeders in the analysis and interpretation of their data
  • Optimising tools developed by your colleagues and yourself
  • Contributing to the construction of pangenomes for our different crops
  • Providing advice to your colleagues on the experiments and the data that need to be generated to answer their research question
  • Participating in external and internal projects related to your field of expertise
  • Keeping yourself up-to-date with findings from academia and other sources through literature search and participation to conferences

For this position, you would preferably be based on our site in Tienen, Belgium.

Your profile

  • You have an education in bioinformatics (MSc or PhD), or equivalent through experience.
  • You have a good understanding of plant genetics.
  • You have extensive experience in scripting and pipeline development using programming languages, such as Python, R, C++.
  • You are developing pipelines using Git and/or Nextflow.
  • You have experience with Azure Cloud computing.
  • You are an independent worker who takes initiative, is a good listener, and has a very good eye for details.
  • You are an excellent team player with good communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
  • Additional knowledge of French and/or Dutch is a plus.
  • Experience with the analysis of long-read sequencing data, building of databases, and machine learning is a plus.

If you are interested in this role, don’t hesitate to send your resume and motivation letter to jobs@groupefd.com. We look forward to hearing from you!