Research Executive

ROLE PURPOSE   

This role requires > 6 years of experience working in the areas of pesticide/agrochemical formulation development and able to work in the formulation lab.

• To formulate, generate scientific / technical data using established systems, procedures, and protocols in an area of work delegated by the manager.

• Define the experimental programme that include the development of new pesticide formulations, procedures/standards.

• To interpret data in order to make contributions to decisions in the work programme content, procedures, or problem solution.

• Report on work, including recommendations to project team or sub-project team leader.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• To plan, organise and carry out the work programmes at the laboratory, semi-technical, pilot plant or manufacturing scale to design novel pesticide formulation options in order to:
  • prove the suitability for progression through Stage C and D Evaluation and Development
  • provide Product Chemistry type and or supporting data, and
  • provide the formulation design input required to define the process equipment and quality assurance requirements to timescales and specifications agreed with the Team or Group Leader.
• Ensure the quality of Evaluation and Development formulations by arranging for biological efficacy, toxicology, and hazard assessment studies to be carried out in other Functions.
• Provide advice and recommendations to allow appropriate selection of formulation manufacturing sites for individual products, together with the product design inputs required to define the process equipment and quality assurance requirements.
• To interpret and represent to project members external to the function, experimental data and report results and conclusions obtained both orally and in written form to allow cogent and timely Stage C and D project decisions, Regulatory submissions and accurate information archiving and transfer for future commercial manufacturing activities.
• To ensure that work by the job holder and subordinate staff comply with Syngenta standard operating procedures and statutory regulations (e.g. GLP or similar).
• To ensure that the jobholder and subordinate staff work safely and healthy with due care for others, so that compliance with Syngenta’s HSE Policy is achieved.
• To invest in personal and professional development and growth, undertaking, where appropriate, training and development activities and ensuring familiarity with new research and literature.

• Ensure maintaining complete confidentiality of all Syngenta intellectual property.

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE and CAPABILITIES:

Critical knowledge and experience  

• Master’s degree in Pesticide/Agrochemical chemistry must/preferable from reputed universities with strong academic records and good communication skills with > 6 years of industrial experience in field of pesticide formulation development as a formulation development chemist preferred.
• Thorough knowledge of pesticides, pesticide formulation types and techniques required in formulation development.
• Sound understanding of agrochemical formulations / Coformulations / Fillers is a must

Critical technical, professional, and personal capabilities

• Ability to work effectively with the hub, regional and global F&P organisation
• Excellent operational, organisational, interpersonal and computer skills
• Sensitive to different cultural environments
• Self-motivating

Critical leadership capabilities

• Communicative
  • We deliver clear messages to our stakeholders
  • We are keen to listen and learn
• Team Oriented
  • We model commitment
  • We support team process improvement
  • We collaborate effectively across organisational and functional boundaries
• Results Oriented
  • We focus on goal achievement
  • We stay focused
• Customer Focused
  • We seek to understand our customers
  • We build collaborative relationships
• Trusted
  • We demonstrate support for others

Critical success factors and key challenges

• This role will involve development of new formulations by helping to generate potential formulation options through the design of appropriate experimental work programmes to thoroughly optimise and test these according to the formulation development process. 

• This will include the analysis of experimental data in order to make inputs to the decisions on the direction of the work programmes within the project.

• The job holder will need to have experience of different formulation types as well as a full range of broader requirements in formulation development such as product application, manufacturing processes, etc.

• To deliver highest quality results in optimal time and maintain highest standards of HSE

Additional Information

Other critical behaviours:

• Flexibility to adapt to changing plans and circumstances
• Logically break down problems to their essential elements
• Pro-activity and initiative
• Quality standards
• Safety

Innovations

Employee may, as part of his/her role and maybe through multifunctional teams, participate in the creation and design of innovative solutions. In this context, Employee may contribute to inventions, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets

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.