NA Production Manager - SSV

Syngenta Group•Woodland Park, NJ

4d•$145,600 - $208,000•Onsite

About The Position

Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs. Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions. Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States. The NA Production Manager will manage all processes associated with regional Small Seed Vegetable seed production, multiplication and production planning, grower allocation, contracting and pricing of seed production and delivery to seed conditioning sites to satisfy market requirements for quality, quantity, timing and price (‘QQTP’). This includes the development and maintenance of appropriate external 3rd party tolling relationships which includes production activities and may include further seed processing, as required. The role also involves leading and developing the seed production organizations for all SSV across the Designated region and communicating and liaising with all relevant stakeholders to enable a one team - one goal strategy for SSV sourcing and production.

Requirements

Master or Bachelor degree in agriculture / business
Functional knowledge of seed production operations and vendor management
Experience in planning and agriculture business processes
Fluent in English
Global mindset and experience working in a multi-cultural & cross functional environment
Financial knowledge & data analytics

Responsibilities

Develop, supervise & lead a network of regional production personnel with clear accountabilities and plans for succession and personal development.
Build organizational capability to meet the combined challenges of competitive COGS and product quality, alongside an increasingly complex product offer.
Engage in creating a platform for the global production community to connect, cooperate, share best practices, and set the required prioritized actions to execute the Seed Production Plan (SPP).
Achieve full function-wide compliance with external and internal standards on HSE, product quality, Code of Conduct, and key risk management processes; engage in shaping the space on new internal standards and compliance processes.
Build effective working relationships with relevant functions such as Processing, Global Seed Sourcing, Supply OPS, Quality, Finance, Procurement and Supply Chain.
Act as a member of the Global SSV Production Leadership Team to shape functional process, standards and culture.
Interface with Research and Development (R&D), Global production Crop Strategist, Supply Chain and Commercial to implement/execute agreed upon strategies and improvements for supply reliability.
Actively engage in the crop and operational planning to meet business objectives; ensure achievable plans are agreed and risks shared and understood, deliver to the agreed plan.
Collaborating with Global Seed Sourcing personnel ensure required production data is actively collected and analyzed to promote continuous improvement.
Develop and ensure that assigned crops have a crop production strategy and investment plan.
Develop and implement key field management processes and procedures in seed production, measured with appropriate KPI’s.
Deliver the approved SPP (QQTP) within agreed upon tolerances.
Develop operational budgets to meet business planning expectations; manage operational costs within these agreed budgets and develop compelling business cases for unplanned spend.