FPR agronomist

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Role Purpose

• To develop the knowledge, the best scalable agronomical practices and solutions for vegetable seed production which enables a more profitable, stable and sustainable seed business.
• To follow a scientific method approach (hypothesis testing) to generate information that assists data-driven decision in vegetable seed production.
• To deliver innovative and advanced seed production technologies that help overcoming existing challenges and or that bring improving opportunities along with future ready approach.
• To be the dependable member in the regional vegetable field production organization providing agronomical (practical and scientific) advise to local production teams.
• Building collaborative and constructive interactions with other business functions outside own organization.

Accountabilities 

• To provide technical and scientific assistance to Field Production (FP) teams to solve agronomical seed production constraints.
• To independently carry out research studies including experimental design, trial/experiments execution, data collection, data storage and processing and concluding recommendations.
• To perform a thorough management of owned projects from planning to implementation. This includes accurate project planning, activities tracking, timely updates to stakeholders and sponsors, and budgets setting and maintenance.
• To proactively look for improvements in our seed productions operations to improve quality, reliability, profitability, stability and sustainability.
• To support the regional Field Production Research (FPR) lead with project portfolio building process. This include ideas collection, proposal definition and sponsor approval.
• To act as technological gatekeeper in charge of scouting, diffusing and piloting the latest technology from external and internal sources into the vegetables FP organization.
• To independently arrange and lead formal and informal meetings with pertinent internal partners to discuss matters within the FPR area.
• To be aware and comply in daily activities and projects with the Syngenta code of conduct and HSE and Sustainability policies and standards.
• To be able to present the agronomic information generated from his/her area of responsibility to key stakeholders. This information could be presented through diverse ways, formal and informal and might include non-technical people.

Qualifications

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Competent knowledge for Agronomic Engineering, Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Applied Biology and Plant Protection.
• Statistical Design, data analysis and storage.
• Proficient in English language – spoken and written.

Critical experience

• 3 to 5 years of experience in Agricultural Research, Agricultural Development, Hybrid Seed Production, Parental Seed Production, or Hybrid Seed Production Research.
• Project creation and project management.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Assertive and influencing communication when dealing with technically challenging situations.
• Project planning and execution.
• Ability to understand and solve potential conflicts for technical views / opinions.
• Self-Judgment on decision making before sharing it next level.
• Ability to catalyze transformation and change in the organization.
• Sound analytical and problem solving/solid skills.

Critical leadership capabilities

• Manages his/her own performance to reach high result standards.
• Communicates assertively.
• Develops him/her self within the organization.
• Establishes ambitious goals aligned with the functional area strategy.
• Focus his/her energy to achieve tactical activities in the short term needed for the business advancement.

Additional Information

• Team work culture among teams avoiding silos.
• Being able to travel at least 20-70% of his/her time coordinating and supervising the job at different locations / countries.
• Ability to work independently without much direct supervision.