NA Production Manager - SSV

Syngenta Group•Woodland, CA

About The Position

The NA Production Manager will manage all processes associated with regional Small Seed Vegetable (SSV) seed production, multiplication, and production planning. This includes 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). The role also involves the development and maintenance of external 3rd party tolling relationships, including production activities and potentially further seed processing. The manager will lead and develop the seed production organizations for all SSV across the designated region and communicate with relevant stakeholders to achieve a unified 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

Manage all processes associated with regional Small Seed Vegetable seed production, multiplication and production planning.
Manage grower allocation, contracting and pricing of seed production and delivery to seed conditioning sites.
Develop and maintain appropriate external 3rd party tolling relationships.
Lead and develop the seed production organisations for all SSV across Designated region.
Communicate and liase with all relevant stakeholders to enable one team - one goal strategy for SSV sourcing and production.
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.