FPR agronomist

Role Purpose

• To develop the knowledge the best scalable agronomical practices and solutions for vegetable seed production which enables a more profitable stable and sustainable seed business.
• To follow a scientific method approach (hypothesis testing) to generate information that assists data-driven decision in vegetable seed production.
• To deliver innovative and advanced seed production technologies that help overcoming existing challenges and or that bring improving opportunities along with future ready approach.
• To be the dependable member in the regional vegetable field production organization providing agronomical (practical and scientific) advise to local production teams.
• Building collaborative and constructive interactions with other business functions outside own organization.

Accountabilities 

• To provide technical and scientific assistance to Field Production (FP) teams to solve agronomical seed production constraints.
• To independently carry out research studies including experimental design trial/experiments execution data collection data storage and processing and concluding recommendations.
• To perform a thorough management of owned projects from planning to implementation. This includes accurate project planning activities tracking timely updates to stakeholders and sponsors and budgets setting and maintenance.
• To proactively look for improvements in our seed productions operations to improve quality reliability profitability stability and sustainability.
• To support the regional Field Production Research (FPR) lead with project portfolio building process. This include ideas collection proposal definition and sponsor approval.
• To act as technological gatekeeper in charge of scouting diffusing and piloting the latest technology from external and internal sources into the vegetables FP organization.
• To independently arrange and lead formal and informal meetings with pertinent internal partners to discuss matters within the FPR area.
• To be aware and comply in daily activities and projects with the Syngenta code of conduct and HSE and Sustainability policies and standards.
• To be able to present the agronomic information generated from his/her area of responsibility to key stakeholders. This information could be presented through diverse ways formal and informal and might include non-technical people.

Qualifications :

Knowledge experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Competent knowledge for Agronomic Engineering Agronomy Agricultural Engineering Applied Biology and Plant Protection.
• Statistical Design data analysis and storage.
• Proficient in English language spoken and written.

Critical experience

• 3 to 5 years of experience in Agricultural Research Agricultural Development Hybrid Seed Production Parental Seed Production or Hybrid Seed Production Research.
• Project creation and project management.

Critical technical professional and personal capabilities

• Assertive and influencing communication when dealing with technically challenging situations.
• Project planning and execution.
• Ability to understand and solve potential conflicts for technical views / opinions.
• Self-Judgment on decision making before sharing it next level.
• Ability to catalyze transformation and change in the organization.
• Sound analytical and problem solving/solid skills.

Critical leadership capabilities

• Manages his/her own performance to reach high result standards.
• Communicates assertively.
• Develops him/her self within the organization.
• Establishes ambitious goals aligned with the functional area strategy.
• Focus his/her energy to achieve tactical activities in the short term needed for the business advancement.

Additional Information :

• Team work culture among teams avoiding silos.
• Being able to travel at least 20-70% of his/her time coordinating and supervising the job at different locations / countries.
• Ability to work independently without much direct supervision.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time