R&D Regional Head - South

Role purpose / Accountabilities

• Provide leadership for the CPFD team in the region.
• Coordinate and deliver the Crop Protection Development trialing program assigned to the region.
• Ensure trials conducted within the region are of high quality and produce conclusive results.
• Manage personnel, facilities, and operating budget assigned to the region. 
• Develop and communicate protocol and trial summaries, including technical fit and positioning recommendations within quality and timeliness standards.
• Establish an effective partnership with the South and East Coast Sales/Commercial colleagues to ensure sales support activities, technical positioning, and key influencer support underpin the commercial strategies of the business.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of CPFD strategies to effectively deliver new active ingredients for commercialization
• Create an environment which fosters innovation, creativity and empowerment.

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Strong people management skills.
• Strong collaboration and team building skills
• Clear expectation and objective setting.
• Strong communication skills -- ability and willingness to interaction with colleagues inside and outside CPFD, e.g. Marketing, IS, Planning and Sales.

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Ph.D. degree in an Agricultural Science preferred.
• Crop and pest trialing practices.

Critical experience

• Experience in crop protection and/or pest management research that demonstrates broad understanding of how to connect development opportunities and business needs.  Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and motivate staff to function as a high performing team

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Excellent leadership, people management, teamwork and communication skills needed.  Ability to challenge the status quo and work with North American and Global colleagues to develop and implement strategic initiatives for the CPFD organization
• Innovative – we generate innovative solutions; we challenge the status quo and push boundaries; we try different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities
• Decisive – we draw conclusions and choose a timely course of action based on relevant facts, constraints and probable consequences
• Communicative – we clearly convey information and ideas; we encourage open and continuous communication; we are keen to listen and learn
• Trusted – we develop and maintain an environment of openness, trust and integrity; we gain the confidence of our stakeholders
• Team-Oriented – we actively participate as members of a team to move the team toward completion of goals; we collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries
• Results-Oriented – we deliver on our commitments; we set aspirational goals and work tenaciously to reach or exceed them

Other Dimensions Critical for the Role

• Team Building
• Coaching
• Contributing to Team Success
• Developing Others
• Information Monitoring
• Managing Conflict
• Negotiation
• Technical/Professional Knowledge

Additional information

• Travel Requirements of 35-50%
• All applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

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