Field Biologist

Syngenta Crop Protection

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Role Purpose

• Conduct in-house trials mainly on Hub and surrounding areas by participating in country trial plan.
• Maintain overall development of Hub
• Participate in technical support activities and product development activities.
• Develop trial plan based on country plan, implement it.
• Develop contact farmers for conducting in-house trials for product testing.
• Participation in Country Product registration plan by conducting trials in assigned territory.
• Market and competitors activities in territory.
• Need based Technical support to sales team and SBU on request.

Accountabilities

• Conduct, evaluation and reporting on field trials ensuring these meet development priorities, budgets, time frames and goals.
• Participation in data reviews meetings. Data interpretation, data presentation and support in taking decisions on product development activities.
• Selecting contact farmers, selecting right locations for trials to ensure successful trials. Making fall back arrangements in case of trial failure.
• Lead, coordination, planning and active participation to ensure all resource availability for conducting in-house and registration trials.
• Participate and challenge protocols based on local pest, disease, farmers expectations.
• Coordination with State Agriculture Universities, ICAR institutes and other recognized institutes, with in territory, for conducting registration trials as per country plan.
• Conducting registration trials. Collecting reports on time, giving indication to HO on product performance from time to time. Ensure good quality reports.
• Coordinate / Influence scientist for undertaking registration trials and for report availability as per timeline.
• Interaction with sales colleagues, extending technical support when requested.
• Keeping track of competitor’s activities, with in company code of conduct. Keeping HO informed.
• Regular reporting on trials and product performance.
• Keeping watch on crop /pest / new pest problems in territory. Keeping HO reported on these aspects.
• Managing within given budget.

Critical Success Factors & Key Challenges

• Technical knowledge:
• Research and replicated trial conducting skills.
• Product evaluation skills, data collection and data interpretation skills.
• Basic knowledge of pesticide chemicals.
• Crop, pest, customers need in territory.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Influencing and negotiation with farmers.

Knowledge, Experience & Capabilities

• Technical knowledge.
• Basic Business knowledge.
• Coordination skills.

Critical knowledge

• Post Graduate in Agriculture Sciences, preferably in crop protection.
• Sound Knowledge of Agriculture in territory covering crops, pests, pest incidence time.
• Exposure and experience in field trial conducting.
• Crop, pest, geographies, customer (farmer) knowledge.
• Basic knowledge on Product registration preferred.

Critical experience

• 2-6 years’ experience of working in field as trialist.
• Basic knowledge of crops, pests, diseases, weeds.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Understanding of local languages, interaction with farmers, influencing farmers.
• Coordination and interpersonal skills.
• Capability to accept challenges work hard and achieve accepted goals.
• Self-motivation and ambitions.
• Ability to accept challenges and achieve results under pressure.
• Good written, oral communication and presentation skills.
• Good computer skills including word processing, presentation preparation.
• High level of integrity.

Critical capabilities

• Accept challenges. Participate with full energy in achieving accepted goals.
• Understand departmental expectations.
• Ambition to performance to high standards.
• Self-development.

Learn from success of other team members and repeat it in our area.

People are at the heart of what we do:

• Once a year Full body check
• Competitive insurance scheme
• Employee assistance program – to take care of your and your loved ones mental health
• Paid Vacation of 30days, 12 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, compassionate leaves
• Education assistance – for your career growth
• People first culture translated into ‘Most Preferred place to work 2022-23 by Times group’

Note: Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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