Deputy Manager, Communications

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder mapping and formulate PR and Communication Strategy around the engagements with key stakeholders.
• Create PR and Communication Strategy in line with regional communication guidelines, keeping country context in mind.
• Engage with print and electronic media proactively to achieve PR coverage to increase corporate brand value.
• Create visibility and recognition for the organization through a strong presence on different national platforms (industry, academia, and award-giving organizations).
• Give advertisements to influential media/associations to increase visibility.
• Create success stories of farmers and Syngenta Value Added Services and spread them across the board.
• Increase corporate and employment brand value through impactful posts on Syngenta Global LinkedIn.
• Draft MOUs/Agreements for collaborating with concerned stakeholders.
• Write letters to associations and influential chambers to influence policies.
• Create articles on burning issues and publish in influential print and online media.
• Ensure media placements - interviews in print, digital, and electronic media.
• Create AV on events/milestones.
• Create Sustainability action plan and undertake projects having qualitative and quantitative impacts and share sustainability impacts with key stakeholders through appropriate media.
• Lead sustainability projects: develop training materials and monitor impact & collaborate with local partners, Govt stakeholders for program success.
• Project proposal, impacts, and content development: develop sustainability project proposals, conduct impact assessments, and create content & design metrics to evaluate program effectiveness.
• Monitor and report on sustainability metrics and progress: Establish KPIs and collect relevant data, prepare regular sustainability performance reports & ensure compliance with sustainability standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to promote sustainable farming practices: Engage with farmers, communities, and government agencies, organize workshops and field demonstrations & build rapport with NGOs and chambers of commerce & industries.

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.

Educational Requirements: Graduation in Mass Communication, Marketing, Agricultural Science.

Experience Requirements :

• Minimum 7 plus years of hands-on experience in Creating and executing Communication Strategy.
• Handling print, and electronic media and handling journalists.
• Creating articles, success stories, and advertorials.
• Increasing corporate brand value.
• Experience in agro-input industry will be encouraged.

Must be able to travel frequently.