Commercial Planning Manager

Operational Excellence

• Strategic Agenda
  • Ensure the consistency of key initiatives across BA ME and across the Functional representatives
  • Provide direction and lead the commercial target setting process, 5-year planning
  • Work closely with Marketing to ensure alignment with strategic agenda
• Support  in yearly as well as monthly operational commercial target setting through deeper understanding of upsides, downsides and initiatives
  • Ensure the systematic process leads Commercial Teams to understand upsides and downsides drivers
  • Monitor actions to increase the likelihood for sales upsides achievement or downsides mitigations
• Initiate and coordinate the yearly amendment of Commercial Policy to leverage discounts and rebates to best return. Apply consistently value and market based pricing
• Lead the 5y plan process across the BA
• Support the Portfolio cycle
• Continued improvement of the sales monitoring  process through regular review of business performance against sales and MS targets as well as the required resources
• Lead/Participate in selected commercial projects and phases such as analysis, design and/or implementation
• Continues improvement and active management of customer service levels across markets

Drive results

• Translate business imperatives into concrete and tangible strategic intents and define Must-Wins, Tactics  and accountabilities to support execution
• Set quantitative and qualitative KPI’s and accountabilities
• Systematic follow up of actions during SOP and Management meetings
• Weekly and monthly sales and forecast tracking supporting Finance

Leadership

• Apply new Syngenta Leadership model elements while managing across boundaries within BA Markets, Business Partners and other remote functions to strive for continued efficiency  improvements
• Ensure the key processes as defined in our set up are implemented and enforced
• Ensure all activities are carried out in a compliant way and in accordance with the Code of Conduct and other internal policies
• Actively contribute to the overall growth acceleration in BA Middle East Markets through discipline and collaborative ways of working.

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers 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 harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects, and diseases, as well as droughts, floods, heat, and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

• Critical knowledge and experience
  • BA or MA in finance / economics / business administration
  • 3-5 years of experience in finance, project management
  • Excellent MS excel skills
  • Effective planning and project management experience
  • English language a must,

• Critical technical, professional and leadership capabilities
  • Understands business concepts, analyses figure, tackles many competing priorities
  • Displays strong leadership and ability to drive projects and changes
  • Has the ability to understand and assimilate different markets and cultures
  • Works collaboratively
  • Communicates with impact
  • Strong at judgement
  • Result-orientated
  • Shows openness to criticism and in talking about shortcomings; able to admit mistakes and gain insights from experience

Ready to travel up to 20% into BA ME Markets