Data & Analytics Delivery Lead

Join Syngenta Group, a leader in agricultural innovation where technology meets purpose. As digital pioneers in AgTech, we're integrating AI across our value chain from smart breeding to precision agriculture. Our global team of 56,000 professionals is transforming sustainable farming worldwide. At Syngenta IT & Digital, your expertise will directly impact food security and shape the future of agriculture through cutting-edge technology.

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Purpose

As a D&A Delivery Lead in the Commercial domain, you will be responsible for identifying capability needs within sub-Commercial communities (e.g., Marketing, Pricing, GPD). Your role involves aligning requirements between global functions and regional needs, serving as a Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) for both regions and global functions. You will oversee the end-to-end delivery of Data & Analytics products and services, including data pipelines, Data Marts/MIOs, dashboards, and analytics. This involves coordinating with Global D&A and Functional leads, leveraging existing capabilities, and creating new, sustainable data products. Your goal is to develop D&A capabilities that are scalable, increase efficiency, drive new revenues, provide competitive advantages, and support business teams in making informed and faster decisions.

Accountabilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to capture and understand D&A demand, translating business requirements into clear user stories and outcomes for the D&A team.
• Challenge the status quo to deliver scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Support business transformation from legacy D&A solutions to automated Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive decision-support solutions.
• Act as Single Point of Contact for application architecture and the tactical operationalization across Commercial solutions, driving business definitions ownership and data lineage in our Data Catalog.
• Serve as the business customer's voice to the development team/squads, translating technical details into business language and vice versa. Lead the daily development team stand-up.
• Develop scope, define backlog items, and manage the workload across the Agile development team.
• Address product-related issues, make decisions, and perform trade-off analysis to maintain alignment with business deliverable commitments.
• Understand end-to-end data management interactions and dependencies across complex data pipelines and models, assessing their impact on D&A products.
• Develop a scalable delivery team to accelerate the go-to-market of our D&A services.
• Educate clients on the D&A and IT business model, value, and value proposition.
• Coordinate with Commercial Leads and Chapter Leads to optimize team composition within the Commercial squad.

Experience / Previous jobs required for the job

• Proven track record in successful managing D&A and/or Commercial delivery teams.
• Overall 3 years of D&A management experience, at least 3 years of Commercial domain expertise and understands /have experience with the related Commercial solutions and DW like BW, SFDC, etc.
• Experience leading teams in an agile matrix organization.
• Working with different levels of the organization (business and IT)
• Experience with Business Analyst methodology, gathering Business Requirements, defining personas, mapping information required.

Critical knowledge and education required for the job

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Informatics, Computer Science, or a related D&A field, with 3-8 years of relevant experience in D&A and Commercial areas.
• Experience with cloud-based ELT, big data tools, infrastructure, analytics, and visualization tools like Qlik and PowerBI.
• Experience running Scrum/Agile development practices, ideally as a product owner or scrum master.
• Knowledge of Business Process Management.

Experiences to be gained in the job:

• Simplifying complex D&A issues with clear communication towards business stakeholders.
• Developing Smart Mart/Data Modeling and intuitive D&A solutions to ensure our Global Data Model always meets standards: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).
• Managing supplier resources and handling escalations as needed.
• Managing expectations and partnerships of D&A within Global and Regions.

Capabilities

Managerial Capabilities:

• Expertise in translating business requirements into clear stories, mapping personas, delivering the data required as a MIO, and challenging business requirements.
• Ability to select and steer a DevOps team to ensure all related activities (BA, ETL, Data Engineering, Visualization) are efficiently executed within the team towards a common goal.

Core Capabilities: ·

• Effective communication, ensuring impact and commitment from individuals and stakeholders.
• Strong relationship building, collaboration, and influencing skills, crucial given the data complexity and integration challenges.
• Proactive in sharing best practices, ideas, and insights across the team, inspiring change towards a true DevOps operating model using the Agile Chapter structure.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Informatics, Computer Science, or a related D&A field, with 3-8 years of relevant experience in D&A and Commercial areas.

Note: Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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