Soil Health Services - Country Lead France

We are currently seeking for a Soil Health Services - Country Lead France (M/F) – Permanent Contract.

This role can be based remotely, but ideally near our Guyancourt office and will include frequent business travels across France.

You will establish a new service business within Syngenta in France by taking charge of the commercial implementation and scale up of the Soil Health services. Your role will involve leading internal collaboration and engaging with channels/partners and customers to guarantee the success of the soil health service offer. You will be responsible for defining the country-specific operating model and achieving the soil health service KPIs and delivering the soil health service P&L.

Your role & responsibilities :

• Develop the country-specific business plan, infrastructure and team to deliver the service to customers
• Accountable for establishing and delivering the end-to-end service from process order inflow to service delivery
• Stakeholder management to ensure that the soil health service offer is aligned with commercial organisation objectives and priorities
• Continual assessment of market potential and competitive landscape in the area of soil health
• Work with the France Commercial Organisation to define the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and implement the agreed approach.
• Develop and execute the marketing strategy aligned with the Country Commercial Marketing team to capture the market potential
• Management of the commercial budget for soil health services.
• Responsible for developing the resource plan and recruitment to deliver the health service offer
• Line management of the soil health team in France incl. service delivery scheduling, making sure operators execute in time, on quality, manage the soil service car fleet and soil analysis laboratories delivery against given protocols.
• Provide customer first level support on the service and answer queries.
• Create strong customer relationships and ensure continual grower, channel and partner feedback to improve and evolve the soil health service offer and maximise customer satisfaction.
• Manage channel, partner or grower complaints.
• Report back country activities to regional Soil Health Service Head including need for potential product developments, service delivery issues, procurement needs, etc.

Your profile:

• Graduated in agricultural engineering (or equivalent)
• At least 5 years experience in crop agronomy and/or soil health
• Good knowledge of plant nutrition/fertilizers & soil health
• Expertise in precision agronomy and experiences in grower advisory would be a plus
• Marketing/Commercial understanding
• Entrepreneurial business acumen, solution oriented focusing on results
• Good knowledge of change methodology to lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Ability to influence, lead teams to success and motivate field based operators
• A true leader, you are able to unite and convince different functions around a common objective
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• English & French: Advanced level.

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.  #LI-SL1

In return for your skills and knowledge Syngenta will offer:

• A competitive salary with an annual bonus
• A profit-sharing bonus (can be invested in a company savings plan with matching contributions from the company)
• A supplementary pension plan (possibility of investing unused RTT and CP days)
• Works council benefits
• Mutual insurance with 60% cover
• Company Car
• Career opportunities as well as possibilities for individual development and ongoing training
• Special attention paid to your work/life balance, with facilities such as teleworking (company agreement with hybrid teleworking)
• A working environment that encourages agility, diversity and teamwork
• Responsible and varied work in a forward-looking company

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.