Seeds Logistics Expert Italy

• Being responsible for the distributions, warehousing, transports and all the logistic related activities for the business of seed in Italy.
• Ensuring reliable, compliant, and efficient operations
• Monitoring and analysing logistic related processes, propose optimizations and drive implementations

Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs. Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions. Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.

• Ensure all warehouse and transport activities and processes are efficiently, correctly and timely managed. 
• Be the main point of contact for Italy seed warehousing and distribution: provide visibility of the logistic related elements (e.g. stock, deliveries)
• Coordinate and support the activities of the external providers and collaborate with the internal functions
• Ensure smooth and optimize operations: monitor and analyze logistic activities, costs, adherence to KPI
• Propose processes and system improvements and develop the implementations
• Executions of the inputs needed in ERP and in other systems
• Ensure internal and external compliance and perform related actions
• Ensure 3rd party providers adherence to SOX & Syngenta internal standards 
• Be responsible of inventory activities

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Identifying and solving short term constraints and issues proactively
•  Ability to see essential points in complex business processes and to find ways to improve them
• Establish excellent working relationships with key players in the P&S, Commercial and other business relevant functions.
• Effective collaboration with providers
• Quick, pro-active and adequate communications towards Commercial Unit and Supply Chain
• Development of solutions, WOWs with high success potential for implementation

Qualifications

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• Excel advanced
•  2-5 years of experience in Logistic or Supply Chain
• SAP experience
•  Mother language Italian, advanced English

Education/Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent in Business, Logistics, Science or Engineering
• Good analytical skill.
• Customer-oriented
• Experience managing internal communications, working cross functionally to deliver results
•  Preferred experience in project and implementations

Personality & Attitude

•  Active & pro-active
•  Flexible and adaptive to constant changes
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills
• Time management and organizational skills

• field of origin: mechanics, steel, plastics, agro, food (no large-scale retail trade)
• Participation in structured projects also as team member, not necessarily as project manager

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