Portfolio Manager Brazil

Company Description
About Syngenta
Syngenta is a global leader in agricultural innovation with a presence in more than 90 countries. Syngenta is focused on developing technologies and farming practices that empower farmers, so they can make the transformation required to feed the world's population while preserving our planet. Its bold scientific discoveries deliver better benefits for farmers and society on a bigger scale than ever before. Guided by its Sustainability Priorities, Syngenta is developing new technologies and solutions that support farmers to grow healthier plants in healthier soil with a higher yield. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland; Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States. Read our stories and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram & X.

Job Description
Role Porpuse:
Lead the strategy and be the guardian of the complete end-to-end of the corn and soybean portfolio. This includes responsibility for the product lifecycle, developing the medium/long-term plan for each brand, leading the channeling of new launches, defining and supporting the strategy for the development of new products (genetics, traits, IST, and other technologies), managing in-licensing partnerships, and ensuring strong alignment between functions to deliver new products according to business demand. The role is a fundamental link between marketing, R&D, agronomy, finance, P&S, and external partenerships translating the business strategy into initiatives that will impact the company's results.

Accountabilities
Product life cycle (PLC)

• Ensure the official vision of product life cycle, per brand and crop
• Manage all information to create a complete vision of PLC since the launch until the phase-out
• Capture and organize all relevants information to define the product cycle

Medium and Long term Plan (LTP)

• Build and secure products, numbers, strategy and managing Risks and Opportunities to create a medium/long term
• Ensure all discussions and communication with local and global team to capture the inputs.
• Incorporate new tehcnologies and marketing tendencies to create a reliable plan
• Colaborate with the definition of price, cost and brand strategic plan
• Monitor and anticipate market dynamics (competitors, growers, investments, new technologies)
• Bring the vision of LTP to SPP discussions

HPC/VPC and channeling for new launches

• Support the meetings with Portfolio, Gaps&Needs analyzes per branc and general insights from the marketing and competitors.
• Create a product value proposition with business case for each product considering all possibilities of brand (volumes for the first 3 years, pricing, cost, etc.) to support the brand channeling decision.
• Ensure a clear value proposition for the new hybrid/variety in the brand to avoid cannibalism of active portfolio
• Support the decisions to new products in stages 6.1 and 6.2

Crop Team BR (Corn and Soy)

• Lead the pipeline and portfolio team, capturing and selecting topics for discussion, scheduling meetings, ensuring action tracking, and bringing relevant topics to the discussion.
• Ensure communication of discussions and decisions to the organization.

External collaboration

• Prospecting for new business partners to meet Syngenta's strategic demands
• To capture and transform new ideas into projects that allow for an analysis of their viability for Syngenta.
• Ensuring that all obligations related to in-licensing commercial agreements are being followed and are in compliance
• Mantaining good communication and interaction with the crop protection team
• Supporting market intelligence discussions for competitiveness
• Supporting teams with global functions and ensuring alignment with the DOA

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Qualifications
Knowledge, experience & capabilities

• Solid experience in portfolio management, product strategy and marketing execution
• Strong finantial acumen with proven P&L management
• Strong technical knowlodge in seeds crops, especially corn and soy
• Deep understanding of agricultural markets, especially seeds and technology
• Expertise in seeds strategy development and product life cycle
• Strong cross fucional collaboration and influence skills
• Ability to navigate in complex and diverse environments

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Ability to connect long term strategy with short term execution
• Proactive and data driven decision making
• Strong stakeholder management and communication accross teams
• Execution excellence in complex and dynamic market environments
• Clear ownership of results and collaborative leadership mindset

Important
Additional Information
Beyond just believing in the power of diversity, Syngenta promotes an inclusive culture that embraces differences in all its forms. Here we believe that the feeling of belonging allows people to be the best versions of themselves, building an increasingly welcoming and productive environment.

• All candidates qualified for our positions, without distinction of race, gender, age, nationality or disability.
• This position requires immediate job availability.
• This position does not include relocation support.

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