Head R&D Seeds Brazil

As Brazil R&D Head you will be leading the R&D teams in Brazil and ensure we do cutting edge R&D and continue to develop and deliver market leading products and strengthen our market position. You will provide overall leadership and ensure successful delivery for Syngentas Corn and Soy Seeds R&D especially in the areas of technical strategy technology and traits strategy program management talent capability and organization establishment partnering strategy and development and senior stakeholder management for both internal and external relations. You will represent R&D as member of Brazil Field Crops Leadership Teams.

Here is how this role will be critical to our business:

Role overview:

• Define develop and build an effective and future oriented organizational structure to meet the goals of R&D organization.
• Drive professional development within the R&D organization to maintain leading skills in modern plant breeding methods.
• Manage people management processes including performance management succession planning and talent management.
• Operational Excellence
• Ensure our breeding operations and trialing are the most efficient and continue to optimize unit cost by constantly and creatively looking for productivity.
• Manage the operational and capex budgets with great discipline and use our resources wisely to accelerate genetic gain and bring best products to market consistently and quickly.
• Develop track and act on key leading performance indicators to make all our R&D related processes better reliable and efficient.
• Technical Advancement
• Ensure R&D goals correctly target our TPPs and the pipeline structure and projects are properly designed to deliver on goals
• Lead technical adoption of core enabling technology capabilities such as genomic selections phenomics data analytics and advanced breeding methods like Hi-Rez breeding to drive and enable the development of design-driven products of the future
• Contribute to the development and lead the implementation of the strategy for trait delivery in Brazil providing strategic and technical direction and implementing a process to drive delivery of native GM or GE traits to the business
• Strategy Development and Execution
• Drive connection with Brazil commercial organizations to align on core market growth areas and that corn pipeline growth is in line with commercial ambitions and related business goals
• Partner with commercial P&S and product management drive investments in capabilities and infrastructure to support the Corn R&D Strategy
• Actively contribute to the Seeds RDLT strategy development and execution
• Stakeholder Management
• Partner closely with global germplasm and applied teams to bring the best-in-class technologies tools and enable strategic germplasm introgression that balances germplasm security concerns with business needs.
• Work with key stakeholders in Marketing P&S and Commercial functions to maintain WoW processes and responsibilities which ensure end-to-end continuity and excellence in development and delivery of crops.

WL: 6A

At Syngenta we are highly people focused we look for professionals who are engaged collaborative and excellent in execution. Leaders are expected to communicate effectively develop teams and lead by example. Our industry and our function are changing rapidly so we are looking for new team members with a strong desire to develop themselves.

Qualifications :

Essential for this position:

• Agronomist with a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding or Genetics or a related field.
• Proven experience in contemporary global research and development environment
• Solid understanding of latest advances in molecular breeding data analytics and precision phenotyping
• Experience working successfully in international and cross-functional teams to execute strategy
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to inspire team
• Great track record of hiring influencing and developing talent
• Fluent level of English
• Fluent level of Spanish or Portuguese

Previous experience:

• Proven technical experience in relevant roles  
• People coaching and leading
• Experience of complex technical portfolio/project management within the company with good cross functional collaboration capability.
• Experience in operating independently in a complex matrix environment

Critical Capabilities

• Excellent leadership skills with a proven track record of building successful teams and driving innovation
• Excellent organization communication and advanced skills.   
• Excellent interpersonal skills especially those required to successfully function as part of a cross-functional team. 
• Ability to understand and communicate complex instructions
• Thorough understanding of R&D processes and sufficient knowledge to identify the critical issues and engage effectively with people
• Accountable for results
• Curiosity to innovate
• Collaborate as a team
• Courageous to explore          

Additional Information :

Additional information

• Location: Brazil São Paulo
• Hibryd

Beyond just believing in the power of diversity Syngenta promotes an inclusive culture that includes differences in all its forms. We believe that the feeling of belonging allows people to become their best version building an increasingly welcoming and productive environment.

All qualified candidates will be considered for our positions without distinction of race gender age nationality or disability.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time