Digital Business Partner

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Digital Business Partner - Catalyst for Digital Transformation

The role serves as a crucial conduit between the digital function and the stakeholders of the India business, encompassing launch of digital initiatives, relationship and risk management, identifying and nurturing opportunities, and collaborating with experts on strategic growth and solution exploration.

1. Strategy: The digital business partner must possess a comprehensive grasp of strategic KPIs and the ways in which digital capabilities enhance and can further augment business value. This includes:

• Aligning the country's strategic objectives with the digital transformation roadmap.
• Leading the discovery and execution of new projects that unlock business value.
• Establishing suitable digital implementation and transformation processes.
• Identifying business opportunities and collaborating with business and cross-functional teams to design, prototype, and deliver continuously improved products.
• Tackling complex business issues and offering innovative digital solutions, leveraging domain knowledge and business intelligence.

1. Technology: Acting as a trusted advisor, the single point of contact for senior stakeholders, responsible for:

• Evaluating the existing technology landscape, identifying significant gaps, and proposing and executing solutions to create a comprehensive experience across various functions.
• Participating in Business Reviews and taking responsibility for the digital segment of the business.
• Coordinating with Product and Engineering teams to propel technical solutions, which includes providing business requirement, setting milestones, and ensuring commitments are met in accordance with the budget allocated.

1. Partnership/Change Management: Following the implementation of a digital initiative, the change partner ensures that the digital solutions are adopted by users. The change management partner:

• Understands how different functions react to change and interact with technology.
• Assesses modifications in work nature and recognizes the need for training, incentivizing, organizing, and motivating the workforce to embrace new technologies to realize expected benefits.
• Negotiates and persuasively influences the success of key business projects by ensuring proper allocation of costs and resources.
• Acts as a change agent, facilitating the change management process and serving as a catalyst for organizational transformation.

Qualification Critical success factors:

MBA or consulting background is desirable with 8-12 yrs. of experience in Digital Transformation field.

Digital product launch and lifecycle management experience preferred

Requirements Gathering in an Agile environment and Passionate for the digital space

• Experience leading on new product development and commercialization, ideally with experience across digital and non-digital channels
• Strong analytical skills to support performing gap analysis, root cause analysis and dissecting client requirements, to ensure delivery of the most optimal solution
• Confidence to ask questions and challenge in the right way to ensure the correct priorities are being delivered
• Self-Starter, being able to work independently and in a cross functional team environment.
• Strong strategy, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience translating business strategy and analysis into business requirement for technology.
• Strong thought leadership and influencing skills.

People are at the heart of what we do:

• Once a year Full body check
• Competitive insurance scheme
• Employee assistance program – to take care of your and your loved ones mental health
• Paid Vacation of 30days, 12 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, compassionate leaves
• Education assistance – for your career growth
• People first culture translated into 'Most Preferred place to work by Times group'

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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