India Field Crops Head

Company Description

Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs.

Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions.

Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.

Job Description

Role purpose

Lead the India Field Crops Seeds business with full accountability for business performance, strategy execution and sustainable growth. Drive end-to-end value creation across portfolio, demand generation, commercial execution, supply alignment and talent development to strengthen Syngenta's market leadership in India.

Shape and execute the long-term growth strategy for the Field Crops business by integrating market insights, customer needs, innovation pipelines and operational excellence. Build a high-performing organization that delivers superior commercial outcomes while fostering collaboration across Commercial, Marketing, Supply, Production & Supply, R&D, Finance and regional stakeholders.

Accountabilities

Business & P&L Leadership

Accountable for delivering the India Field Crops Seeds business strategy, revenue, market share, profitability and cash-generation objectives. Drive sustainable business growth while ensuring strong financial discipline and resource optimization

Strategic Growth & Portfolio Management

Define and execute the medium and long-term strategy for the India Field Crops business. Shape portfolio investment priorities, lifecycle management, innovation launches, germplasm deployment and growth opportunities that strengthen competitive advantage and customer value creation.

Commercial Excellence & Market Leadership

Lead commercial strategy and execution across pricing, demand generation, channel effectiveness, customer engagement and in-season business performance management. Ensure superior execution and profitable market share growth across all Field Crops segments

End-to-End Business Integration

Orchestrate alignment across Marketing, Supply Chain, Production & Supply, R&D, Finance and Sales teams to ensure effective planning, forecasting, inventory management and business delivery. Drive enterprise-wide decision-making that balances short-term performance with long-term value creation.

Customer, Market & Industry Stewardship

Develop deep understanding of the evolving agricultural landscape, customer needs, channel dynamics and competitive environment. Build strategic relationships with key customers, distributors, industry influencers and external stakeholders to strengthen Syngenta's leadership position.

Innovation & Transformation

Champion innovation, business model evolution and continuous improvement to accelerate growth and improve organizational effectiveness. Foster a culture that embraces change, drives operational excellence and leverages data-driven decision making.

Leadership & Talent Development

Build, inspire and develop a high-performing leadership team and talent pipeline for the future. Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion and performance excellence while strengthening succession readiness across the organization

Stakeholder Management & Enterprise Leadership

Influence and collaborate across country, regional and global leadership teams to secure alignment on strategic priorities and business decisions. Represent India Field Crops in key leadership forums and contribute to broader business and enterprise objectives

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Strong end-to-end business leadership with full P&L accountability.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution excellence.
• Deep customer and market orientation.
• Strong matrix leadership and stakeholder influencing capability.
• Proven track record of building high-performing teams and future leaders.
• Enterprise mindset with the ability to drive growth across complex business ecosystems.

Critical Competencies for Success:

Driving Results

• Drives towards top business performance. Pushes to meet or beat goals, and personally improves performance. At highest levels, changes what the organization or even the industry can do, creating far greater results.

Strategic Thinking

• Focuses on larger, mid-term issues, and creates plans and strategies. Develops a strategy that conceptualizes and incorporates complex market issues, and provides a clear concept for the future that people understand and which enables them to move forward.

Collaborating and Influencing

• Engages with others over whom they have no authority. Creates partnerships. Collaborates to achieve results. At the highest levels, creates enduring partnerships across functions. This capability incorporates collaboration, influencing, and networking.

Building People Capabilities

Develops people over the long term. Identifies issues, gives feedback, and supports and enables development. Creates systematic development across commercial SE organization and through leadership of the seed CDG enables cross functional talent development.

Qualifications

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

• Relevant management background in Seeds, strategic and end to end operational experience
• Strong enterprise wide business leadership - holistic P&L focus from top- to bottom-line, strong financial acumen
• Good understanding of [territory] agricultural market environment (ideal) and knows how to manage in emerging market context in changing agricultural industry
• Capable to influence and manage across matrix and network structures

Critical knowledge

• Syngenta products and key competitor products
• Crops and agronomy knowledge
• Customers / Channels in country
• Internal processes / Governance
• Marketing, Business operations, basic understanding on R&D and finance

Critical experience

• In-depth experience of agri-business sector in Marketing, Sales and Strategy
• Experience in product / asset management
• Working relationship with above territory organization and other companies

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Understand market dynamics and competitive environment and translate it into strategy
• Designs effective product life cycle management strategy and brand strategy
• Ability to apply Marketing and Sales Excellence (MaSE) Pillars effectively
  • Creates strong, distinctive brand plans
  • Delivers distinctive value proposition to customer
  • Develops/executes campaign plans
  • Develops/implements effective product communications
  • Develops/implements effective pricing strategy (lead value pricing, influence transactional pricing) with the pricing manager
  • Support effective field force strategy
  • Support effective CRM strategies
  • Able to use market research effectively to understand customer, markets and channels
• Anticipates changes in the market and adjusts strategies accordingly
• Analytical thinking
• Financial acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Influencing and negotiation
• Communication and presentation skills
• People/team management
• Program / project management

Additional Information

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.

 To learn more visit: www.syngenta.com