Trialing & Product Placement Regional Lead-SSEA

Syngenta Seeds is one of the world's largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs.

Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions.

Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States

Role purpose

• The prime purpose of the Trialing & Product Placement Regional Lead-SSEA is ensuring the development of superior across-crops portfolio that will address grower/ customer needs based on Target Product Profile (TPP) developed in conjunction with the business functions.
• The MSL function will represent the Seeds Development (SD) organization in the market and be responsible for translating market needs and business plan into resource and strategy.

Accountabilities

Trialing:

• End to End responsibility of all stage 5 trials. This includes (when needed): seed shipments, trial preparation, trial management, data collection, data summary, data quality, advancement decisions and all other activities involving data generation.
• Support Early stage trialling activities in collaboration with Breeding Project Leads.
• Engage with Stage 6 product placement.

Data:

• Drive data driven decision processes through adoption of new tools and capabilities. This includes, environmental modelling, high throughput phenotyping methods aiming to improve efficiency and data quality.
• Collect and report product testing KPI's.
• Engage with product advancement process and pipeline assessment.

Management:

• Lead a market segment team to deliver the strategy and product portfolio.
• Manage performance, priorities and career development of all members of the MST.
• Collaborate with SD functions and portfolio managers and develop the strategic MS plan that will support the business objectives for the region. Perform annual quantitative pipeline assessment to support the investment in certain crop/ region.
• Develop resource plan and budget forecast (excl. budget management) to support market needs. This includes seed shipments, compliance, grower/ field contracts, labour and other activities aiming to secure product development in the market across all crops.
• Engage with the budget planning process, pipeline review and 5Y plan exercise

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Masters degree in plant breeding or similar field.
• Deep knowledge/ experience in plant breeding processes, genetics, statistics and experimental design.
• Commercial background (product management, pre-commercial development) – advantage.

Critical experience

• 5+ years of experience in the seeds industry.
• Project management in a team-oriented atmosphere.
• Proven record of people management in cross functional environment.
• Ability to translate market needs into resource and strategy.

Critical capabilities

• Think and plan rigorously and strategically to ensure the organization will thrive in the near and long term.
• Ability to lead and motivate others to high performance.
• Ability to lead transformation through project management, collaboration, engagement and communication
• High adaptability and flexibility
• Ability to manage resources to achieve objectives but remain within budget.
• Ability to generate reports/charts/summary tables to communicate results and progress.
• Excellent computer skills and proficiency with MS Office and corporate software.
• Ability to effectively organize, manage and assign workload of multiple tasks in order to meet project goals and deadlines.
• Ability to work independently with minimal day-today supervision. Adjust workload plans and resource allocations based on new direction in a changing environment.
• Fluent English both writing and speaking

• Regional & international travel required.

• Operates in a team setting, working independently on a section of the breeding project for which they have authority but coordinating activities with other team members.

• Ability to work under adverse environmental conditions