Head IT & Digital Vegetables

As the Head of IT & Digital for our Vegetables business, you will push hard for breakthroughs that help propel the company forward to solve one of humanity’s most pressing challenges — grow enough food to feed 8 billion people on the planet, in a sustainable way, with fewer resources to feed a growing population.

In this role you will create IT solutions in partnership with our Vegetables business leaders, enabling us to be more productive, solve problems for our customers, and enable new business opportunities. Your work will deliver tangible improvements to business outcomes.

Capabilities & Characteristics for Success:

• Business and IT Balance – Is bi-lingual in both business and IT, and able to translate business goals into ambitious IT objectives.
• Collaboration – Ability to understand and influence peers by being a good listener who shows up as an empathetic collaborator, not as an order taker.
• Strategic Thinking – Can generate a compelling and inspirational vision, strategic plan and capability roadmap that makes it clear how technology can deliver the goals.
• Intellectual Agility – Is an agile thinker who thrives in ambiguity and has the ability to see "around corners".
• Prioritization – Can manage that there will always be more demand than supply, but ensures the right priorities make it to the top.
• Focused on the Ends Not the Means – Measures the value of technology products by the impact they have on employees and customers, not on time, money or meeting "requirements".
• Intellectual Curiosity – Is curious about the outside world and committed to importing great ideas regardless of where they come from.

Remote (USA) or preferred locations: Downers Grove, IL; Boise, ID; Greensboro, NC.

Must be authorized to work in the USA and visa sponsorship will not be provided at this time. Up to 10% travel may be required.

Duties:

• Developing technology roadmaps with the Vegetables business that underpin their strategy, driving implementation with internal and external teams to support business growth.
• Looking across Business functions, identifying and connecting opportunities across regions and domains to collaborate, develop, and share technology solutions.
• Collaborating with Vegetables business teams in their use of technology to make core business more productive, solve problems, and enable new opportunities.
• Identifying business requirements, developing solutions including technology, data, processes, resources, and delivering either directly or indirectly.
• Working with Global Digital and IT, developing products to bring solutions that solve the biggest challenges for our growers.
• Managing technology solutions throughout their life cycle in close collaboration with global Digital and IT pillars while instituting modern ways of working, such as product management, fusion teams, and DevOps.
• Working collaboratively across the Global Digital and IT organization to ensure Vegetables business needs are prioritized appropriately and resources and plans are aligned to deliver the results.

Syngenta Group is one of the world’s leading sustainable agriculture innovation companies, with roots going back more than 250 years. Our 53,000 people across more than 100 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.

Syngenta Group is committed to operating at the highest standards of ethics and integrity. This is a commitment that we are making to investors, customers, society, and employees. Syngenta Group is also committed to maintaining a workplace environment free from discrimination and harassment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related Technology field or additional equivalent job-related experience.
• 10+ years of experience of delivering complex, business critical IT projects in agile and waterfall methodologies with broad technology know-how in multiple business domains.
• Experience in similar roles, such as Digital / IT consulting / Business Partner, in multinational / matrix organizations partnering with senior stakeholders at regional and global levels.

What We Offer: 

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs. 
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.  
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution. 
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits. 

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. 
Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI 

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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