Syngenta Crop Protection

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.

Purpose & Accountability:
• Typically accountable for a mid-sized Unit/Business/Site or Territory Function
• Typically manages several key services through subordinate managers/professionals or leads complex and significant tasks and projects of global scope

Business impact:
• Adapts and executes functional or departmental business plans and contributes to the development of functional or departmental strategies
• Often contributes to Global Function policies and direction; recommends process, product or service improvements
• Ultimately responsible for effectiveness and development of area of responsibility

Responsibilities and requirements:
• Typically manages through subordinate managers or leads as conceptual thought leader in area of responsibility
• Manages budget and resources allocated to own area
• Requires in-depth and/or breadth of knowledge in own Function and knowledge of other disciplines
• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges
• Often required to solve unique and complex problems using unique and/or new solution
• Ensures delivery of all departmental objectives
• Develops business by managing key relationships outside Syngenta on a regular basis
• Communication skills required to influence and negotiate with others internally and externally, typically at senior levels

Management Ladder
• Typically manages large, potentially diverse teams of managers and/or senior professionals
• Develops plans and delivers results in potentially fast changing businesses and/or regulatory environments
• Often required to look beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems
• Typically contributes directly to business planning

Professional Ladder
• Typically manages large complex project teams with potentially diverse sub-teams; mainly on a global scope
• Regarded as the expert and innovation leader in their particular Function internally within Syngenta, and beyond
• Often required to solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on Syngenta
• Bespoke expert in own area (has final say)