Supply Planning Lead

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.

Job Description

Purpose & Accountability:

• Typically performs specialized duties in a defined functional program area involving a wide variety of problems, performs standard and non-standard assignments
• Is an expert source of information on processing transactions

Business impact:

• Eliminates significant inefficiencies by changing process steps
• Central address for all questions of operative process performance and quality

Responsibilities and requirements:

• Typically supervises non-professionals who perform routine tasks or provides informal and/or formal guidance, training, and support to other team members
• Requires developed specialized skills, or a breadth of skills, through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience
• Often inputs to development of new procedures / standards subject to approval from manager
• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience to respond to non-routine situations, with consideration of short term consequences
• Requires formal qualification/vocational training
• Completes work with a limited degree of supervision or works autonomously
• Has developed breadth and/or depth of skills in a range of processes procedures and systems, or acts as the technical expert in an area
• Skills are typically developed through a combination of vocational training and considerable on the job training or a college / university degree with limited work experience
• May propose and/or contribute towards improvements to processes (with validation of supervisor/manager)
• Typically coordinates and supervises the daily activities of a small support, production or operations team of non-professionals (at lower Work levels), may allocate work, sets priorities to ensure task completion, coordinates work activities with other supervisors; provides subject matter guidance to other team members.
• Typically does not spend more than 20% of time performing supervision.
• May be responsible for performance evaluation and pay review.
• Spends a majority of working time performing the same work processes and activities as employees on team
• Mainly uses existing procedures to solve standard problems; analyses information and standard practices to make judgments with consideration of consequences

Qualifications

Critical Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business or Agricultural related fields or equivalent amount of education and experience.
• Experience in Supply operations roles with relevant logistics qualification
• In depth knowledge of supply chain principals and acumen
• An appreciation of Health and Safety Issues.

Critical Skills:

• Ability to lead, manage for performance and motivate teams
• Strong analytical skills and able to manipulate and interpret data to make decisions
• Strong planning and project management.
• Effective liaison with other business functions and staff on a regional and global level.
• Key supply chain systems and tools including S4HANA, T3P & CRISP.
• Focuses on customers
• Capable to work across functions to ensure supply chain strategies are executed

Critical Experience:

• Local S&OP process.
• Distribution and warehouse management in a large company.

Additional Information

In Syngenta we recognize that diversity and inclusion is important to our business. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Our culture enables us to create an environment of involvement, respect and connection with the communities where we operate - benefitting individual employees and the company.