Vylor Inc.
Global Sample Services Specialist
United States
About the role
Join Vylor—Powering the Future of Agriculture
At Vylor, we’re advancing agriculture through breakthrough science—combining elite germplasm, cutting-edge biotech, and next-generation expertise in gene editing and molecular breeding. Our portfolio includes trusted industry brands like Pioneer®, Brevant®, and Hoegemeyer®, delivering performance farmers rely on.
Join us to help scale innovation globally and shape what’s next in crop science.
We are seeking a Global Sample Services Specialist. The Global Sample Services Specialist supports the intake, tracking, quality control, compliance readiness, and global distribution of chemistries and related materials for use in R&D trials/experiments. This role is expected to execute independently within established processes, resolve routine logistics and documentation issues, escalate non-routine or high-risk issues appropriately, and coordinate across global R&D, stewardship, regulatory, legal/contracts, EHS, and operations stakeholders. The role helps ensure accurate and timely chemistry flow across global R&D trials, including coordination of permits, stewardship requirements, location-specific shipping/testing requests, and business-process support for Vylor tracking and management system updates.
What You'll Do:
Chemistry Logistics Management
- Manage end-to-end logistics for chemistries used in R&D trials within the Vylor platform, including procurement, receipt, labeling, chain-of-custody documentation, storage, and shipment.
- Ensure chemistries are handled, labeled, and documented in accordance with trial protocols, safety data requirements, stewardship expectations, permits, and applicable regulatory guidance.
- Coordinate requests and maintain location-specific understanding of testing and shipping requirements across global trial sites.
- Coordinate with regional trial teams, breeding stations, treatment facilities, and labs to align chemistry/material demand, request intake, and shipment schedules with trial calendars.
- Independently manage routine logistics questions, documentation gaps, and shipment-readiness issues while escalating non-routine compliance, permit, stewardship, EHS, or legal/contract questions to the appropriate accountable function.
- Handle packaged chemistries/materials in accordance with site procedures, EHS requirements, SDS guidance, labeling standards, storage requirements, PPE expectations, and approved shipment processes.
- Management of contract employees to assist with the above responsibilities during peak seasons.
Data & Process Integrity
- Maintain data accuracy within Vylor chemistry logistics and material tracking systems, reconciling discrepancies between coded identifiers, compliance requirements, and shipment status.
- Generate status reports and metrics on chemistry request intake, shipment readiness, permit/stewardship status, and shipment accuracy for stakeholders.
- Identify and support continuous improvement opportunities in chemistry logistics, request intake, compliance handoffs, and global shipment execution.
- Support Vylor software updates and/or transfer of existing systems by providing business-process input, user acceptance testing, data/process documentation, training materials, and adoption support. This role does not own software development or technical system architecture.
What Skills You Need:
- Bachelor's degree in agronomy, plant science, biology, chemistry, supply chain, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with chemistry/material logistics, trial logistics, material tracking systems, or laboratory information management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to execute independently within established processes, resolve routine operational issues, and escalate non-routine compliance, stewardship, EHS, regulatory, or legal/contract questions appropriately.
- Understanding of confidentiality, compliance, stewardship, EHS, SDS, labeling, storage, PPE, and shipment requirements related to proprietary R&D chemistries/materials.
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy in high-volume, deadline-driven, confidentiality-sensitive environments.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with global R&D, breeding, legal/contracts, stewardship, regulatory, EHS, and operations teams.
- Proficiency with material tracking, trial management, or workflow management systems.
- Must be capable of doing physical lifting (up to 50 lbs.).
- Ability to work periods of extended work hours during peak seasons and possible overnight travel.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience supporting global, multi-region R&D trial operations and international chemistry/material movement.
- Working knowledge of permits, stewardship expectations, treated-material compliance requirements, and shipping-readiness documentation.
- Experience working in or coordinating with storage, lab, warehouse, or treatment environments where packaged materials are handled under EHS-controlled procedures.
- Experience supporting business-process changes, system testing, training documentation, or adoption of logistics/workflow tools.
- Experience with Vylor systems or comparable R&D logistics/workflow platforms.
Work Environment / Schedule Expectations
- Role will require onsite work in Johnston and coordination with global teams across time zones.
- Work may involve storage, lab, warehouse, treatment, or shipment-readiness environments where packaged chemistries/materials are handled under established EHS procedures.
- Must follow applicable EHS, SDS, PPE, labeling, storage, documentation, and shipment-readiness requirements for assigned activities.
*Please note there is no visa sponsorship available for this role.
Benefits – How We’ll Support You:
- Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills
- Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place
- Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
- Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays
- Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father
- Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program
- Learn more about our total rewards package here - Vylor Benefits
- Check out life at Vylor! https://www.linkedin.com/company/vylorgenetics/
Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.