AMEA Weed Control Portfolio Manager

Role Purpose

Drive sustainable, profitable market share growth of Weed Control business. Build a competitive pipeline, commercialise current pipeline and drive strategy of commercialised products

Accountabilities

• Lead multi-functional portfolio leadership teams (PLTs) which co-create and co-own designated Regional product and portfolio plans (working together with the countries, capturing the regional dynamics, while aligning to global strategies):
• Monitor NPI and overall portfolio performance, mitigate risks and drive opportunity capture and initiate actions as needed, including the plans to address the FTO risks
• Lead annual Country Portfolio Review process for designated products and crops;
  • Focus on Stars and Cores (as per Portfolio Categorization process)
  • Ensure strong crop and brand plans are in place
  • Define portfolio gaps, 3rd Party targets
  • Agree portfolio plans with Global Product Management
  • Track projects and ensure on target against the committed 5 year Business Plan
  • Identify commercial capability gaps and develop a plan together with CE team, specific for the different countries.

• Support development of commodity management and pricing guidance approach.
• Drive portfolio segmentation for the product line and work with an e2e enterprise view on management of products.
• Lead the long-term view on the product line, especially with a view on sustainability, digital and data, and reaching growers at scale.

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Cross-functional teams leadership
• Building trust and respect with countries and global teams
• Spotting issues early and proactively taking actions
• Gaining commitment across multiple functions, levels and countries
• Focus organisation on the broad business priorities
• Dealing with different levels of capabilities and needs across countries. Coaching and supporting capabilities development.
• Building frameworks for impact across organisation on capability to deliver product line objectives.

At the Syngenta Group, our 56,000 people across more than 90 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet – making us the world's most local agricultural technology and innovation partner.

Website address - https://www.syngentagroup.com/

Critical experience

• 10+ years of sales & marketing management, often customer facing, preferably in diverse countries in strategic and operational roles,
• Leading cross functional teams
• Influencing senior stakeholders

Critical technical, professional, and personal capabilities

• Marketing and Business acumen
• Ability to build partnerships
• E2E business understanding
• CP product and crop agronomy expertise
• Communication and people skills

Critical leadership capabilities

• Strategic thinking
• Ability to hold the long-term big picture while spotting and dealing with opportunities and issues that have implications on short and mid-term business performance
• Creative, solution-oriented mindset
• Ability to marshal people and gain buy-in across boundaries and quickly drive actions
• Ability to communicate effectively and with impact and drive change

This position can be based in any of our locations: Izmir (Turkey), Pune (India), Moscow (Russia), or Bangkok (Thailand).