Job Detail

Platform Delivery Lead, Content Digitisation - (18030521) 

Description

 

About Syngenta: 
Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources more sustainably. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown.

Role purpose

• You provide the agility and focus to keep our content digitisation platforms relevant in a rapidly changing world. You understand the direction of our business, the needs of growers, and trends in IT and digital technology. You drive and execute the platform strategy to operate efficiently, embrace modernization and remove silos; executing the realization of the strategy in close collaboration with CP R&D IT colleagues, R&D product owners and Platform Leads.


• Content Digitisation works across a range of functions including Product Safety, Regulatory, Product Biology, Bioscience, Marketing, and Digital Agronomy. We are supporting R&D as it moves towards a more digital content strategy, through smarter content management, structured content authoring and semantically-enabled “cognitive search”.


• You will use self-learning and learning from others to collaborate and build confidence in all areas. This will equip you to inspire others and turn R&D needs, wants and problems into working solutions. You will master the ability to move seamlessly between scientific, technical and operational discussions.


• You will bring together multiple platform teams in different countries with different cultures and in different time-zones. These platform teams focus on technologies that drive our digital science work. They constantly seek to optimize the digital content experience to make work enjoyable for our people, to drive our Digital Science agenda and to make data and tech.


• You will continue our journey to DevOps with a careful balance of value creation in the short term and progress towards our longer-term ambition. You’ll build strong partnerships with our internal partners, suppliers and customers and exhibit a high degree of empathy while assertively holding people to account for timely delivery and meeting budget commitments.


• Your role will be diverse in topics, skills and deadlines in an ever-changing environment. You’ll have the ability to inject your own creative flair into all your responsibilities.

Accountabilities

• Create, drive, deliver a cross-platform roadmap, technology and supplier strategy in collaboration with the platform leadership team and subject matter experts. This rolling and constantly updated view will be critical to our team and our stakeholders


• Ensure all platforms are delivering with pace by owning and driving the delivery plans, risk/issue logs and supplier relationships. Timely and successful delivery is a key success factor for the role


• Inject your experience to constructively disrupt the status quo of “how things are being done here”. Inspire and support teams to implement automation, CI/CD pipelines and native cloud technology.


• Drive a positive and close working relationship with Syngenta’s IT teams, key collaborators and outsourcing partners. Pro-actively communicate and engage with the CP and IT communities as a visible ambassador of IT, Digital and Content Digitisation.

 

Qualifications

 

Experience / Previous jobs required for the job

• Demonstrated record of delivery in an Agile environment, with a strong focus on best practices, and an initial track record in leading teams directly or indirectly in a matrix environment.


• Demonstrated experience of working with unstructured content, ideally as part of a digitisation programme or a unified content strategy.


• Appreciation of the value in data - experience in creating, managing, analysing or using complex data to make scientific or business decisions.


• Demonstrated skills in working across functions to bring increased business value through seeing the bigger picture, collaboration and alignment of diverse needs.


• Demonstrated ability to explore, understand, prioritise and take control of a diverse range of situations and bring to timely resolution

Critical knowledge and education required for the job

• Post-graduate degrees in a STEM discipline


• Mindset of Agile change delivery and steady state operations (e.g. DevOps, SaFE)


• Desire to take action and challenge the status quo.


• Promotes Diversity of Thinking and Experimentation


• Exhibits situational leadership


• Fluency in English, additional languages beneficial

Syngenta is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

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Primary Location

: GBR-Berkshire-Bracknell 

Other Locations

: CHE-Basel-Basel, CHE-Stein-Stein AG 

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