Product Manager

Company Description

Syngenta Crop Protection is a leader in agricultural innovation, bringing breakthrough technologies and solutions that enable farmers to grow healthy and nutritious food while taking care of the planet. We offer a leading portfolio of crop protection solutions for plant and soil health, as well as digital solutions that transform the decision-making capabilities of farmers. Our 17,900 employees serve to advance agriculture in more than 90 countries around the world. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and is part of the Syngenta Group.

Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. Regardless of your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding an ever-increasing population while taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.

Job Description

In our continuing mission to enable digital science across Crop Protection Research and Development (CP R&D) we are looking for Product Managers to define, deliver and continuously improve digital products that create measurable business value across Crop Protection R&D to support AI products, digital trialing, acritech and LIMS (laboratory information management systems) initiatives. While bridging business strategy, user needs, and technology execution, you will own the product lifecycle with accountability for scalability of product solutions and value realization. Within the role you will drive product strategy in close collaboration with business product owners, business analysts, and technical leads. Acting as a key contributor, you will deliver value while maintaining long-term vision in enterprise context to maximize impact across organizational boundaries. Key responsibilities will include:

• Defining product vision aligned with business strategy.
• Develop and maintain product roadmap, translating strategic goals into prioritized backlog items, while identifying value drivers and defining success metrics (OKRs, KPIs).
• Leading cross-functional teams of analysts, engineers, business product owners and experts to maximise product value and meet business goals.
• Sharing product successes and learnings to drive broader adoption, while continuously measuring and optimizing value.
• Owning and prioritising the product backlog with the Business Product Owner and managing scope/time/cost/value trade-offs.
• Applying Agile practices effectively across sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Ensuring resolution and root cause analysis of cross-boundary operational issues.
• Tracking and communicating post-launch value realisation and maintaining total cost of ownership visibility.
• Managing risks and dependencies, while overseeing vendor and partner relationships.
• Keeping up to speed on latest market offerings/ technologies related to the product, their potential value and constraints.
• Acting as voice of the customer to drive adoption.

Qualifications

What we are looking for?

• University undergraduate and/or advanced degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, Sciences or other relevant educational experience.
• Strong leadership capabilities with experience of stakeholder and change management with proven ability to influence without direct authority.
• Demonstrated career experience in leading product-centric teams & agile product management, with a track record of driving technical product roadmaps.
• Fluency in conceptual product architecture with knowledge of technics for prioritisation and defining success metrics.
• Collaborative, creative and curios value-oriented mindset, seeing digital technologies as an enabler to drive profitable business outcomes.
• Ability to engage with business and technical leaders to ensure expectations are set appropriately.
• Capability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change.
• Strategic thinking and system mindset with the ability to analyse and simplify complex problems, articulate trade-offs resulting in cut-through while maintaining end-to-end design integrity.
• Demonstrated understanding of Life Sciences business context is desired.

Additional Information

Our site

Jealott's Hill International Research Centre UK is situated in pleasant semi-rural surroundings between Bracknell and Maidenhead and is the place of work for approximately 800 Syngenta scientists and support staff. Jealott’s Hill is one of the main global research and development sites and key activities include research into discovery of new active ingredients, new formulation technologies, product safety and technical support of our product range.

Additional location within the UK can be even considered.

What we offer

• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance.
• Up to 31.5 days annual holiday.
• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.  
• The chance to work as part of a global team to address the current and future needs of the agricultural sector and help feed an ever-increasing population.
• A vibrant growth and learning culture and wide range of training options.

Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.

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, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion

Jealott’s Hill has Disability Confident certification.

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates and our Jealott’s Hill site are a Disability Confident Level 2 Employer. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we can to support you.