Company Description
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.
Role purpose
- This role is part of the AMEA Direct Procurement Team (Non – AI , Logistics) and should work in close coordination with Category Lead ensuring common strategies, standards and the establishment of a regional organization with global alignment.
- Develop, validate, and implement sustainable country category and sub-category strategies which are closely aligned with business requirements delivering cost effective solutions for operational requirements and aiming at reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).Strategies will typically cover a 1 to 3 year time horizon
- Work closely with the business leaders in the country(s) to ensure that the country(s) business requirements are clearly understood, appropriately challenged, and taken into account in the Category and Sub-Category strategies (Demand management)
- Leads and manages the end-to-end sourcing activities within the countries.
- Develops and maintains close working relationships with Country P&S Leads to ensure Logistics Procurement delivers significant savings consistently.
- Builds relationships with stakeholders, regional teams, and delivers saving targets.
- Provide tailored Procurement solutions for the business where the business requirements cannot be met by a Category/Sub-Category strategy or existing buying channel
- Act as an ambassador of Procurement and Global Sourcing and be the country(s) champion for all Procurement policies, processes and tools
- Continuous self development to meet the sourcing requirements
- Provide expert regional external supply market knowledge across the Category.
Dimensions
- Financial: Deliver Savings and Budget targets
- People: No direct reports, the ability to co-ordinate and influence multiple team members and stakeholders
- Geographic Scope: India, Philippines and Singapore; Regional activities on coordination with AMEA countries; other Logistics Sourcing Regional and Global projects.
Accountabilities
Key elements of the role include but are not be limited to:
- Manages end-to-end sourcing activities within countries, aligning with category strategies.
- Builds relationships with stakeholders and regional teams, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and process including tendering and contract management.
- Develops and manages relationships with key suppliers, including negotiation and contract management.
- Deploys category and sub-category strategies within the country, ensuring alignment with management teams.
- Designs and executes tailored procurement solutions where standard strategies or channels are insufficient.
- Optimizes vendor relationships and utilizes e-tools effectively to leverage value.
- Verifies and agrees on financial performance within the country, including savings delivery and budget data.
- Delivers agreed savings targets while maintaining quality and meeting time requirements.
- Works closely with business leaders to understand and address requirements, ensuring alignment with category strategies.
- Communicates effectively with stakeholders, providing regular reports on achievements, issues, and constraints.
- Actively engages in continuous self-development to meet requirements.
- Focuses on sustainability throughout the procurement process.
- Implement risk management strategies to mitigate potential disruptions in the supply chain.
- Solves complex problems and may be required to develop solutions to problems newly arising
- Be the face of procurement to the country management team, ensuring they are aware of and actively support procurement policies, processes and tools across the territory.
- Effective utilization of the e-tools to leverage value
- Be and act as an ambassador of the Procurement organization
- Manage the quality & risks associated with the category and supplier base
- Align, support and consider global strategies / projects and practices within category
- Demonstrate compliance with procurement processes, Supplier Relationship Management (including performance management) and contract management
- Map key stakeholders with whom relations need to be established and maintained
- Uses agreed reporting and communication structures to ensure all stakeholders are adequately informed of initiatives
- Develop constructive working relationships with key suppliers ensuring supplier adherence to safety, health, environment and community involvement
- Conduct joint benchmarking and best practice reviews on category management practices
- Drive continuous improvements in all relevant work processes.
Qualifications
Knowledge, skills & experience
- Critical knowledge & capability in developing sourcing strategies leading the implementation.
- Good knowledge of procurement policies and procedures.
- Strong background in use of procurement tools: Ariba, e-rfx, e procurement, SAP, and reporting analytical tools.
- Excellent knowledge of supply markets and logistics domain.
- Ability to handle detailed information and analyse and extract critical issues.
- Good knowledge of financial measurements, how to build a business case including ROI.
- In depth knowledge of internal purchasing policies, procedures, and processes
- Leadership of complex projects
- Cross-cultural understanding
- Good understanding of how to influence and sell internally.
- Knowledge of market intelligence methodologies to gather and analyse relevant information
- Knowledge of analytical skills to analyse the data acquired.
Critical Skills
- Good decision making, Strong negotiation and contract management skills
- Strong interpersonal, presentation and communication skill; ability to work in cross functional teams; organisation skills internally and suppliers externally
- Strong organisation, implementation, analytic and influencing skills.
- Proactive self starter who can work independently
- Strong ability to extract and analyse internal customer requirements.
- Development of strategic relationships with suppliers
- Contract management skills
- Good communication and presentation competencies
Critical Experience
- 5-10 years’ experience gained in Logistics/Supply Chain operations and Procurement
- Strong business partnering experience and stakeholder management.
- Working in a multi-national, multi-cultural environment
- Proven record of success in negotiations with suppliers
- Relationship management experience either internally or externally
- Strong procurement experience with demonstrated success.
- Experience in handling complex procurement challenges and finding effective solutions.
- Successful participation in cross-functional team initiatives
- Experience in working independently and to a high level of accuracy
- Experience in supporting and creating category strategies
- Bachelor’s Degree, additional qualification e.g. MBA in Supply Chain/Operations/Procurement
Additional Information
Travel within AMEA is expected.
Innovations
Employee may, as part of his/her role and maybe through multifunctional teams, participates in the creation and design of innovative solutions. In this context, Employee may contribute to inventions, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets. All such IP is and remains the sole property of Syngenta.
