Field Operation Supervisor - Rice

Company Description

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

• Execute the area multiplication variety/vendor plan for commercial.
• Understanding the area cropping corn dynamic for (Field crop) and ensure seed multiplication capabilities are in place to meet those needs, with clear focus on quality and customer responsiveness
• Determine production planning parameters such as production safety and base yield levels at grower level, to ensure production risks are balanced against the achievement of supply plan.
• As the technical expert, provide crop/variety spesific knowledge to grower and vendor as required ( e.g advice on field capabilities needed).
• Support the vendor contracting process at the grower level, through agreeing purchase prices and other contracting terms within the area framework.
• Own, define, and communicate grower performance against agreed KPÍ's.
• Identify new and develop new/existing vendor and ensure all are tracked against the appropriate performance measures to drive continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain the variety repro process-supporting advancement of new varieties and refinement of existing for the area.
• Active participant in supply chain team(s), working with the other supply chain members in the operational delivery of supply.

Qualifications

• Achieve agreed quality levels (purity, germination and MC )
• Achieve a high level of supply, balancing production risks and meeting service lavels
• Good relationship with contact at seed production
• Master or bachelor degree (agronomic disipline preferred)
• Functional knowledge of seed production, production countries and vendor
• Longuage (site or country) plus English
• 10 years experience in production process in agriculture
• Experience in working in cross functional teams and a matrix organization
• Working relationships with Universities and extension services for crop production enhancement