Senior Crop Protection Regulatory Specialist

Role purpose

• Manage all active ingredients and products in a defined portfolio to ensure that they gain and  maintain registrations in line with business and marketing objectives.
• Lead activities in a defined general technical regulatory area and proactive on issue management.
• Assist the CP country regulatory manager to deliver more regulatory options for decision making to the business
• Assist the CP country regulatory manager to liaise with Government / Regulatory Authorities and Non Government Organizations to ensure appropriate representation of the company position

Accountabilities

• Support the CP country regulatory manager to ensure the registrations are achieved, defended and maintained according to the plan (e.g. new submission, label extension, re-registration, supply source changes, formulation recipe change, etc.)
• Support the CP country regulatory manager to ensure regulatory compliance standards are met.
• Provide an expert regulatory advice to team and lead regulatory issues to support Supply chain, MKT and comercials.
• Help prepare the lable text and SDS(if needed) based on the country recommendation/regulations and adhere to all of the relevant regulations applicable
• Act as specialist in assigned general regulatory areas such as the environment, OH&S, toxicology or legislative changes
• Monitor the intellectual property rights issues in collaboration with the relevant functions
• Support the the CP country regulatory manager to keep the competitor intelligences up to date
• Develop and maintain high quality relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• University degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field like science, agriculture or biology
• A basic knowledge of Crop protection products and the regulatory processes
• At least 5 years experience working in a regulatory function
• A sound understanding of project management

Critical experience

• Working experience in regulatory function in the country CP industry
• Working knowledge of a broad range of scientific disciplines (including biology, toxicology, environ-mental chemistry, etc.)

Critical Technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Good understanding of regulatory sciences in a regulatory context
• Good communication, influencing and interpersonal skills in local language and English
• Ability to work in a team environment and tackle the regulatory issues through through one’s own efforts, independently
• Ability to assimilate a wide range of the regulatory data and draw the conclusion in a proper manner based on the country regulations
• Sound leadership to influence internal and external stakeholders with a science-based knowledge

Critical Leadership capabilities

• Communicates with impact - Gains commitment of individuals and stakeholders in a compelling way.
• Focuses on customers - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
• Collaborates across boundaries - Collaborates effectively across organizational and functional boundaries, and leverages diversity.

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Preparing complete and accurate submission in a timely manner
• Following up any changes of regulatory environment such as regulation change, stakeholder changes and proper issue management
• Keeping registration database updated in a timely manner

In first 12 months

• Understanding competitors’ product range
• Understanding a country regulatory system in depth – process, requirements, evaluation, etc.
• Understanding current regulatory issues
• Building up a good relationship with external stakeholders such as regulators

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.