Product Manager Fungicides

Role purpose:

• Provide support to set and implement portfolio direction for CP business in line with Portfolio/Indication strategy
• Manage Key Channel Account by identifying portfolio opportunities and help deliver business strategy and enable profitable market share growth
• Develops CP planning and forecasting over 5 years in line with crop, asset and Key Account aspirations under the direction of the CP Portfolio Head
• Provide relevant support in CP specific marketing deliverables in alignment with the CU goals
• Act as a single contact point for functions on CP strategy and portfolio-related matters for alignment 
• Actively manage product lifecycle. 
• Ensure pricing positioning is value maximizing and establish pricing corridors for the responsible brands

Accountabilities:

• Strategy and Business accountabilities
• Ensure effective positioning of the products responsible for. 
• Support with Data and analysis for the development of 5-year CP portfolio strategies in coordination with Portofolio head aligning key portfolio strategies to enable profitable market share growth and get consensus on priorities and resource plans.
• Develop and monitor market intelligence, bringing in customer insight into Portfolio Leadership Team. 
• Manage alignment with asset teams; coordinate and support as per requirement
• Build business case for new product ideas. 
• Ensure robust brand launch plans are developed, implemented and reviewed on regular basis for new and strategic products. 
• Develop and manage key account relationships, providing marketing and technical support 

Capability and Organization Accountabilities:

• Establish connectivity with asset teams to ensure effective/efficient  communication.
• Ensure firewalls are maintained between key accounts.
• Work closely with CP team for portfolio and specific projects.
• Work closely with Business Planning and Development Manager in the development of market opportunities and KAM relationship.

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.

Knowledge, experience & capabilities:

Critical knowledge:

• Syngenta products and key competitor products
• Crops and agronomy knowledge
• Customers / Channels for CP in country
• Internal processes / governance
• Marketing, Business operations, basic understanding on R&D and finance 

Critical experience:

• Internal experience of the agri-business sector in Marketing, Sales and Strategy
• Experience in portfolio and asset management in CP
• Working relationship with above organization and other companies.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities:

• Understand market dynamics and competitive environment in primary crop markets.
• May require extensive interaction with Key Accounts who may be competitors of Syngenta.  Ability to maintain a firewall is critical.
• Designs effective product life cycle management strategy and brand strategy
• Ability to apply MaSE pillars effectively
• Creates strong, distinctive brand plans
• Delivers distinctive value proposition to customer
• Develops/implements effective product communications
• Develops/implements effective pricing strategy (lead value pricing, influence transactional pricing) with the pricing manager
• Support effective campaign strategy
• Support effective Key account strategies
• Able to use market research effectively to understand customer, markets and channels
• Anticipates changes in the market and adjusts strategies accordingly
• Analytical thinking
• Financial acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Influencing and negotiation
• Communication and presentation skills
• Program / project management

Critical leadership capabilities:

• Sets ambitious strategic goals
• Communicates with impact
• Leads change and holds ambiguity
• Builds a culture of innovation
• Focuses on customers
• Manages for performance
• Develops people, organization and self
• Collaborates across boundaries

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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