CP Trailing & Technical Development Manager

Role purpose
• Lead the country Trialing team - ensure high quality work slate delivery in accordance to protocol ensuring timeliness and budget delivery for trialing activities.
• Plan and execute annual trial programs in coordination with regional biology team and Portfolio Leadership team with focus on the profiling excellence in close to market conditions.
• Responsible for up scaling tools of trade and application technology, agronomy in off-site trailing operations working closely with SME.
• Develop people and capabilities.

Accountabilities
• To plan work scheduling and execution of the trials plan, work with FB and stakeholders in standardization and process evolution
• To ensure trials execution systematically across the crops/assets/locations by monitoring status on monthly or on need basis.
• To prepare annual trials budget in line with crops/indication and expected 3rd party trials
• To generate high quality data to help identify and recommend new products/ indications with assured performance in a given geography or environment.
• To set the team targets (no. of trials) and area coverage while driving further evolution of teams.
• Ensure effective stakeholder relationship management with regional Product Biology, regulatory, PnS, Technical Support, Seed Product Development, Crop Protection Product Development, Marketing and Sales teams.
• Plan and ensure registration trials or co-ordinate 3P/ CRO trials in state run Institute with availability of reports as per timeline.
• Plan Trialing Excellence program for team for increasing operational excellence.
• Actively input in protocol development and experimental design; ensure timely, high-quality data entry, analyses, and reporting
• Ensure resistance Monitoring and related research
• As needed support for Sales and Marketing by providing product performance enquiries that require specific agronomic and product knowledge.
• Implement global / regional change program and process collaboration and implementation at country level.
• Ensure compliance with Syngenta legal and local guidelines across trialing operations.
• Actively represent country trialing team in regional and global network.
• Align and execute digital tool like BITS- bioplan, biodesign etc at regular basis.

• Liaison and execute with regional biology team to ensure quality trials at regular basis.
• Execute digital trials to meet the market dynamics
• Acquainted with new technology and share with internal team specially sales and marketing

Critical knowledge
• M.Sc.Ag. Preferably a Ph.D. in Agronomy, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Horticulture or closely related discipline, with demonstrated success in applied field research.
• In depth understanding of technical aspects of crops, agronomy and pests and agro-chemicals
• Efficient in program planning and execution with proper Human Resource Management
• Extensive knowledge of Agricultural Statistics and Design of experiments.
• Team building and good communication skills.
• Experience in team management required with a focus on cross functional teams

Critical experience
• 5-10 years working experience as Agronomist, trialist, Breeder and Regional Manager in trialing
• Deeper understanding of crops, pests, agrochemicals and technical aspects.
• Ability to build relationship and execute in a complex and broad geography and peoples, with a focus on operational excellence.

Critical technical, leadership and personal capabilities
• Should have capabilities to bring strong drive and determination in the team.
• Sound knowledge of crops agronomy and technical aspects.
• Proficiency in use of office software and Standard Information Technology tools.
• Extensive knowledge of Agricultural Statistics and statistical software
• Effective stake holder’s management with Sales, Marketing, Product Biology, Crop Solution and Breeding functions.
• Proactive and good foresight and good stakeholder management

Critical leadership capabilities:
• Customer focus - Plays important role
• Innovative - Essential
• Decisive - Essential
• Communicative - Very much essential
• Trusted - Essential
• Team oriented – Essential
• Result oriented : Very much essential

Location : Anywhere in Bangladesh

Syngenta headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and is among the world's leading companies in Agriculture Crop Protection and ranks in the top 3 in the high value commercial Seeds market. In Syngenta we are helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 48,000 people in over 100 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.

Join Syngenta and help build the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role to play in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet.