AMEA Environmental Safety Lead

Role Purpose

The Environmental Safety Lead will lead the design and management of programs to support MEA countries on  efate and eco-toxicological issues. The role will be responsible for delivering training and upscaling authorities under the CropLife umbrella.

The role requires also to manage different external stakeholder and to represent the interest of the company within industry working groups (CropLife Asia). This includes leading working groups within the industry associations such as CropLife Asia – Product Safety environmental subgroups.

Furthermore, the role would require focusing on FTO issues, e.g. bees and/or aquatic risk assessment for rice. This would mean providing support to the countries in discussions around bees and/or aquatic risk assessment. Furthermore, the role will provide guidance and support in answering questions from the authorities.

The role will involve working with global product safety within the different working groups to ensure global expertise and knowledge is used effectively but also to ensure a constant knowledge transfer is taking place all the time.

Accountabilities

• To support the region and countries on authorities’ questions and queries regarding efate and eco-toxicological topics.
• Actively contributes to the design and management of programmes of field studies, in collaboration with project leads, for existing and new actives
• Interprets the significance and consequences of results, by liaising directly with other staff in Product Safety as required as well as other functions such as regulatory affairs and business teams.
• Inputs to the development of technical approaches to define which studies and assessments are required, how these are conducted and as necessary co-ordinates information and responds to comments on studies from regulators as requested by project leads
• Work as part of global project teams for new active ingredient development to facilitate the delivery of data and risk assessments in the AMEA, JANZ region.
• To work with the global Product Safety organisation to ensure appropriate involvement of global expertise and technical positions in AMEA, JANZ projects.
• To monitor regulatory developments in AMEA, JANZ with regard to environmental development & risk assessment
• To engage within industry associations to promote industry approach risk assessment.
• Represent Syngenta in meetings with external regulatory agencies to discuss and successfully advocate our technical positions to address their questions and concerns.
• Deliver high level science inputs to within the Product Safety organization to support the management of technical issues.

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.

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Technically trained in a scientific discipline through a combination of education and work experience.
• Understanding about E-Fate and Ecotox studies
• knowledge about acute (and if possible chronic) eco-toxicology
• An understanding of the regulatory requirements for pesticides in AMEA, JANZ countries
• Study design, supervision and evaluation
• Capable of advocating technically robust positions for complex projects
• Effective communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a team

Critical experience

• Presenting and advocating technical solutions
• Working in multi-disciplinary project teams
• Experience of conducting environmental risk assessments
• Working within industry associations, promoting Syngenta position
• Field experience is of advantage.
• Experience of advocating technically robust positions internally and with regulatory authorities

Critical technical, leadership and personal capabilities

• Capable of demonstrating good technical judgement
• A high level of numeracy
• Ability to build networks internally and externally
• Planning, organizing and monitoring outputs to meet deadlines
• Creative problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently whilst also involving others when appropriate

Key differentiating features.

• Inspire and engage with stakeholders and external audiences
• Capable of high level technical judgement
• Ability to build networks
• Senses and adapts to the changing environment to achieve excellence in delivery
• Skillfully plans, organizes and monitors performance to meet deadlines
• Creative problem solving/interpretation skills
• Excellent Advocacy and influencing skills
• Works independently

•  Travel within the AMEA/JANZ region would be required to supervise ongoing studies and also to engage with authorities via training sessions and project specific discussions