Head of Crop Protection Strategy & Planning, APAC

Role purpose

This role has the overall responsibility for driving Crop Protection (CP) strategic projects, of varied topics related to the overall CP Business, with key cross-functional stakeholders.  In addition, the role drives the planning, execution, and continuous improvement of the CP Business Planning activities and the recurring, cross product-line CP Portfolio activities.

Accountabilities

• Drive projects with strategic importance to the CP Business at high quality, against agreed objectives, timelines, and budgets, and with the involvement of key stakeholders
• Drive the regular review and cascading of the CP Strategy and the translation into Strategic Agendas for the regional CP leadership team (CPLT) and the RMLT
• Lead the annual review, optimization and execution of the CP Business Planning cycle for APAC, ensuring clear guidance for countries to support the process.
• Drive the adoption and rigour in the portfolio prioritization process. Ensure understanding and buy-in with all key stakeholders.
• Drive and support key analyses on 5-year business plans across the company and/or the R&D portfolio to enable decisions to accelerate growth and optimize the use of resources
• Lead the annual Portfolio Reviews in the region, and coordinate the alignment around the Global, Region and country teams.
• Oversees the regional portfolio managers to drive more data-driven decision-making.
• Build a strong digital market research capability and use available data to create insights.  Support the creation of KPIs that measure the performance of our portfolio in an efficient and objective way.
• Own the market share collection and update through country and CLA inputs.
• Lead the roll-out and continuous improvement of key tools used by especially the commercial teams globally for planning (I-Plan) and portfolio visibility (Development Portfolio Report)
• Support the RMLT and where needed the R-CPLT in the organization of their regular meetings, as well as the regional director in bringing key information on the CP Business into the CPLT and other relevant meetings

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Understanding of Syngenta organization and ways-of-working
• Understanding of how different Syngenta functions and geographies operate
• Understanding of external environment, including key competitors

Critical experience.

• Managing projects with significant complexity
• Dealing with (groups of) senior stakeholders

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Managing projects with multiple stakeholders
• Structuring and analyzing significant data sets and driving insights from them
• Communicating effectively and efficiently by solid structuring and focusing, suitable for senior stakeholders' exposure
• Setting priorities and goals
• Managing own agenda with multiple simultaneous activities

Critical leadership capabilities

• Collaborating across functional and geographic boundaries
• Influencing others

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

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

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