Stewardship Manager

1. Role Purpose:

• Enable the safe use of our products and solutions by developing, implementing and monitoring stewardship plans that consider product properties, human and environmental safety.
• Lead and implement stewardship activities in collaboration with Sales team to ensure FTO of CP products (special focus on others which may have FTO issues; and safe use of CP products on fruits and vegetables).
• Support to maintain & keep Syngenta CP products and solutions well viabilities in the market by concerning of their properties, human safety and environmental safety as a whole.
• Manage stewardship activity at the country level and representing company at CropLife Vietnam Stewardship working group.
• Cooperate with CP Regulatory to liaise with Government / Regulatory Authorities and Non Government Organizations to ensure appropriate representation of the company position regarding stewardship & to support the policy advocacy.
• Lead the workstreams with value chain partnership and other partners, as assigned by BS Head, to support Syngenta’s business in general and stewardship activities in particular.

2. Accountability:

• Creating and preparing stewardship projects, plans and strategy to ensure that the process is effective, and to allow benchmarking of stewardship activities.
• Providing and supporting CP product knowledge and safe use trainings on pesticides to Sales/Marketing/R&D/Solution and farmers in order to handle pesticides for crop protection properly.
• Maintain and monitoring the Adverse Health Incident reporting system, investigate poisoning cases and develop mitigation plans, engage with toxicology and other relevant medical professionals as necessary
• Monitoring stewardship issues in collaboration with the relevant functions (CP Regulatory, Sales …).
• Keeping the internal communication, planning tools and reporting up to date i.e. annual reporting, grower community database.
• Managing and leading internal trainings on FAO Code of Conduct.
• Representing Syngenta VN in CropLife VN Stewardship working group and supporting its stewardship activities.
• Developing and maintaining high quality relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitating the cooperating activities with value chain partners including stewardship trainings and technical supports.
• Being the first PIC in the implementation of MOUs between Syngenta and governmental & non-governmental partners. 
• Supporting the policy advocacy with potential impacts on Syngenta’s FTO.

• University degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field like plant protection, agriculture or biology.
• Good knowledge of CP products and stewardship activities, FAO Code of Conduct, and related legislation on CP management and food safety.
• Excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.
• 7 years experience for Agrochemical business.
• Experience in field application, field trials of pesticides.
• Ability to conduct and manage technical seminar.
• Experience in CP product knowledge and practical training; and pesticide safe use training
• Ability to demonstrate a good attention to the details
• Good communication, influencing and interpersonal skills in local language and English
• Ability to work through one’s own efforts, independently
• Ability to work in a team environment
• 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

• Local Vietnamese candidate only 
• Hybrid working: 02 work from home/week 

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 (CP) 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.