Portfolio Lead - Insecticides

Role Purpose: 

Financial

• Plan, drive, and enable business performance objectives from the Insecticides portfolio, driving value pricing, maximize Profitable growth, with GP improvements.
• Effectively plan, deploy, and manage A&P and NPI budgets for the strategic brands and portfolio objectives.

Portfolio

• Lead successful launches, and business scaleups of innovative technologies (NPIs) with Launch excellence.
• Lead sustainable long-term portfolio plans for Insecticides across the strategic crops with strong and differentiated value propositions.
• Lead and execute effective Product Life Cycle Management for key Insecticide portfolio.
• Work across marketing networks in Insecticides Portfolio globally, to create value within the CU business.
• Develop, Implement and Share best practices from Insecticides portfolio management across the country.

Commercial

• Develop, nurture, and grow Insecticide brands, with compelling value propositions, differentiated offers, creative campaigns to increase grower demand.
• Develop market and channel segmentation, value offers, befitting promotions to enhance customer loyalty.
• Lead Pricing for Insecticides portfolio, drive Value selling, grower connects, deploy creative tools and compelling selling stories.
• Develop processes for building strong Insecticides offers, ensuring successful product launches with effective brand plans, value pricing and translation of those into strong campaign plans.

Strategy

• Drive sustainable, profitable market share growth of the Insecticides portfolio through strategic product life-cycle management, effective Go-to-market development.
• Lead long term Portfolio planning and its implementation for successful and sustainable market share growths.
• Plan and execute portfolio augmentation aligned to current and emerging portfolio gaps.

People

• Inspiringly lead Product Management team driving Collaboration, Differentiation and Creativity for achieving the portfolio objectives.
• Lead cross functional teams (PLTs) with ownership and accountability for aligned priorities, end to end mindset for the portfolio.
• Drive data driven decision culture, Digital ways of working, MaSE competence build up for self and team

Accountabilities

• Lead multi-functional teams (PLTs) that co-create, co-own and steer designated portfolio objectives for short, mid, and long term.
• Own and drive Insecticide portfolio business delivery in alignment with market, business and financial objectives for profitable market share growth.
• Lead the launch and scale up of innovative technologies (NPIs) from IC portfolio across targeted market segments with winning Brand plans, value propositions, and driving it with launch excellence.
• Collaborate with the divisional teams, capturing the divisional market dynamics, aligning to country portfolio strategies. Evaluate portfolio performances, bridging gaps and provide guidance.
• Lead long term portfolio strategy (5 Year plan) process for Insecticides portfolio, track and monitor projects to deliver business impact against the committed long term Business Plans.
• Lead annual divisional / country Portfolio Review process for Insecticides portfolio. Drive and align portfolio growth plans with the divisions.
• Steer and lead seamless collaboration with CP Development, Technical Market Development, Regulatory teams as well as other cross functional teams. Lead stewardship, and sustainability areas for the Insecticides portfolio.
• Inspiringly lead and enable IC product management team for higher team success, individual developments, and high impact value creation.

Syngenta Crop Protection

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.

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

Critical knowledge:

• Good understanding of Crop Protection industry, Insecticides markets dynamics
• Knowledge of Indian agri-business markets, Crop Protection GTMs, channel, growers needs across key crops, geographies

Critical experience.:

• 12+ years of business, marketing, Brand portfolio management in CP markets
• Commercial portfolio management, commercial approaches, pricing, CoGS, P&L steering
• Project management & business development
• Successful working in cross functional management with functions like R&D, Technical support, Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing
• Ability to understand and assimilate different markets and cultures

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Key stakeholder management, with proven influence and impact across functional and divisional boundaries
• Customer / grower orientation
• Analytical skills and strategic thinking
• Project management

Critical leadership capabilities

• Inspiring leadership capabilities, and demonstrated drive
• Leadership communication, clear priority and direction setting
• Ability to balance the long-term big picture with short term business delivery
• Collaboratively maximizing performance of cross functional teams

KEY INTERFACES

• Global Marketing team, Regional Marketing team, PLTs, Sales, R&D (CPD), TMD, Regulatory, P&S, Finance, IP & Legal.

People are at the heart of what we do:

• Once a year Full body check
• Competitive insurance scheme
• Employee assistance program – to take care of your and your loved ones mental health
• Paid Vacation of 30days, 12 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, compassionate leaves
• Education assistance – for your career growth
• People first culture translated into ‘Most Preferred place to work 2022-23 by Times group’

Note: 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, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

To learn more visit: www.syngenta.com and www.good-growth-plan

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