About Syngenta:

Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.

About This Job:

The Project & Planning Coordinator will ensure coordination among the corn and rice breeding functions to enable reliable and efficient planning and execution in delivering line and hybrid development program.

• He/she will support the country team to coordinate between demand owners and supply owners and ensure effective delivery of annual and seasonal planned demand

• He/she will support the country head to ensure alignment between planned vs actual spend

• He/she will own transparency to the regional team on project and execution status within the country in charge.

   

  Essential Knowledge & Experience:

  Working with the Local Rice and Corn Seeds Product Development Team:

   

• Co-develop annual and seasonal demand plan with each demand owner within each country and work with the supply team on timely and cost effectively delivery of planned demand within budget and capacity of the country

• Establish a robust tracking and reporting mechanism to monitor project progress in a timely and effective manner

• Metrics reporting on SPD projects to the relevant stakeholders

• Support country head and ensure alignment between planned vs actual budget spend and delivery of breeding goals

• Coordinate efficient seeds product delivery projects for corn and rice product development

• Ensure coherence of data in appropriate reporting tools (for project planning, functional resource demand, budget reporting etc)

• In coordination with the demand owners, populate project planning tool with feasible demand plans

• Support  the project portfolio management and reporting (i.e. research reviews and pipeline tracking reporting)

• Promote project management culture and standards in the product development teams.

• Manage risks in demand delivery due to unforeseen circumstances with the relevant stakeholders

   

  Qualifications:

• Educational background in Agriculture.

• Understanding of plant biology, basic plant breeding process & technologies

• Understanding of agribusiness.

• A strong knowledge of project management and database system.

• Good communication and people skills.

• Good organizational and time management skills.

   

  Additional Important Information:

   

• Full time position.

• Travel requirement: 20%

• Work location: Tak Fah, Thailand

   

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.