Global Crop Quality Improvement Lead LBO

Company Description

Plant your Career with 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.

The Vegetables Seeds department of Syngenta seeds seeks a motivated colleague for the fulltime position of:

                                       Global Crop Quality Improvement Lead

Job Description

Into Action

As our Global Crop Quality Improvement Lead, you will work in the quality assurance team and provide quality process ownership, by driving a quality culture and continuous improvement initiatives across the vegetable business unit, to achieve complete customer satisfaction. This covers the end-to-end supply chain from Research & Development, to Production & Supply, and Marketing & Sales. Whilst doing so fostering collaboration to align, harmonize and simply, with the other crop units.

The Challenge

In this role you will be responsible for maintaining a culture of quality awareness and continuous improvement within the crop ’s end-to-end processes. Next to this, you will ensure QC Standards, testing and Processing activities meet customer needs, and you will contribute to the network of global and regional QA experts for effective deployment of the Quality Management System. You will act as the main quality contact point for your crops, representing Quality Assurance in case of customer complaints. Besides this, you will monitor and evaluate performance, measure progress through a KPI system, and implement and lead projects on quality and risk management. With your pro-active and collaborative attitude, you initiate continuous improvement efforts, exchanging best practices & learnings and drive harmonization both cross-functional and cross-crop.

Qualifications

Your Profile

To be successful in this role you have at least a bachelor degree in fields like plant science, quality assurance, quality control, and preferably experience in the vegetable seeds industry. You have a knowledge of seed physiology, pathology, seed conditioning, enhancement, treatment and production and continuous improvement processes. You are known for your strong (international) stakeholder management skills and ability to balance strategic thinking & guidance with operational implementation. You are a strong communicator and influencer in English and Dutch is strongly preferred but not critical. You are willing to travel if there is a business need.

Additional Information

Your Chance!

If you recognize yourself in the profile and would like to apply for this position, please apply on-line via www.syngenta.com. If you would like to have more information about this vacancy please contact our recruiter Alwin Wennink via alwin.wennink@syngenta.com