Soil and Environmental Science Lead
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- Syngenta Crop Protection
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Role Purpose:
- Drive the Crop Protection Development (CPD) India Soil Health strategic agenda as part of Sustainable Portfolio Development
- Support the country teams in delivering the Soil and Plant Health (SPH) strategy and the Environmental Science platform.
- Be the soil and environmental technical expert in a cross-functional team which generates viable business opportunities to develop desired and feasible soil health solutions to farmers, embedded in the strategic targets on CP and Biologicals.
Accountabilities:
- Responsible for all activities related to soil health and environmental science in India.
- Actively engage with CPD and adjacent functions to investigate, structure, map, and enable sharing of existing technology, methodology and scientific knowhow to an appropriate extend
- Support targeted development and evaluation of new tools and methodology in close collaboration with e.g., Digital, Research, Precision Application, etc.
- Develop the CPD soil health network by connecting it to other technical functions working in soil health and by proposing and enabling investigation of new technology
- Identify CPD capability gaps and propose ways of building these capabilities to pivot our future innovation contributing to soil health
- Support the new Global/APAC teams in delivering the Soil and Plant Health strategy and the AgroEcosystem Technology Platform in India
- Collaborate with fellow teams in Global Product Biology and Soil Technical Managers in the other regions, countries to build corporate soil health capability and exchange on technical expertise supporting a system-based approach for farm resilience
- Be the soil and environmental technical expert in a cross-functional teams
- Bring up-to-date knowledge and informed foresight on soil health related technology
- Provide thought leadership on new business opportunities based on new technologies
- Examine technical feasibility of project proposals, provide respective working hypotheses and steer their efficient testing
- Support initiatives to access or generate relevant data on soil health and environmental science from within Syngenta (R&D, Product Safety, Marketing, Digital, etc.) or external
- Contribute to building soil health capabilities in our Development and Data/Digital teams
- Continually drive for technical excellence in sustainable agriculture initiatives, seeking improvements and providing technical expertise and thought leadership to key stakeholders
- Build and support capability building in soil biodiversity and soil science; regenerative agriculture principles and sustainable agriculture and maintain good networks with Technical Experts.
- Foster technical networking, by actively seeking contact with technical experts, customers, and key influencers to develop and support solutions in sustainable and regenerative agriculture.
- Translate project data into compelling messages that appeal to customers, key stakeholders, and influencers, actively looking for new approaches to enhance or reposition a product or sustainability concept’s value proposition
- Serve as primary contact for sustainability assessments/studies in new AI development and participate in cross functional teams where relevant/required
- Net working within Country, region and global team members / colleagues.
- Keep track of competitors activities related to soil and environmental front. Keep all stake holders informed.
- Develop and maintain relations with scientific community related to soil and environmental science
Requirements:
- Master or preferably PhD in Soil science/Agrl.Microbiology/Environmental Science or other agriculture related science discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience
- Fluency in English language
- Expertise in soil in the context of sustainable agriculture, i.e., soil properties, functionalities, threats, biodiversity, management practices, ecosystem services, carbon, etc., incl. new methodologies for measuring, emerging data sources, networks, and key players
- Solid knowledge on regenerative agriculture principles and their practical application and impact at farm level
- Expertise in handling (plan, generate, evaluate) scientific data and knowledge on data networks
- Ability to harness diversity from a multi -function, -geography, -experience, -culture team
- Good stakeholder management and influencing skills
Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities:
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Capability to drive and enthusiasm in soil and environmental science.
- Ability to motivate and lead others.
- Ability to accept challenges and achieve results under pressure.
- High level written, oral communication and presentation skills.
- Good computer skills (including word processing, presentation preparation).
- High level of integrity.
- High level of self-motivation
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’
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