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Data Management Specialist

Syngenta Group


Job Location:

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 21 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Syngenta our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers success. To support this mission Syngentas CPD Digital Data team is seeking a Data Management Specialist in Centurion South Africa. This role will be accountable for leading and management of agricultural trial data for crop protection projects ensuring it is accurate consistent and ready for regulatory dossier submission and internal decision-making.

Accountabilities:

  • Owning data quality & integrity by running data quality checks leading investigation and resolution of data issues
  • Ensuring datasets meet agreed quality standards before use in analysis or submission
  • Consolidating validating and structuring trial data for it to be analyzed and interpreted (e.g. treatments protocols sites timings units and key trial measurements/outcomes) and ensuring consistency across studies and seasons
  • Maintaining clear links from source data to final outputs and the documentation needed for internal review and regulatory use;
  • Ensuring assumptions definitions and change history are recorded
  • Leading dossier data package preparation by planning and delivering dossier-ready datasets/tables and supporting documents
  • Coordinating inputs from stakeholders and driving completeness and consistency through review cycles
  • Driving standards & continuous improvement by establishing and embedding practical data standards templates and ways of working that reduce rework improve turnaround time and increase confidence in outputs

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum bachelors degree in agriculture/agronomy biological sciences chemistry environmental science
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in trial data analysis in the agricultural or related industry advantageous (field or lab environment)
  • Solid understanding of core trial concepts (protocols treatments trial measurements/outcomes units seasonality variability)
  • Exposure to regulatory environments and submission expectations (data integrity traceability document control) strongly preferrable
  • Demonstrable experience in ownership of data deliverables stakeholder coordination and quality-driven execution

Additional Information :

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. 

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Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time


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