Digital Agriculture Enablement Lead

Job title: Digital Agriculture Enablement Lead

Company: Syngenta

Job description: About Syngenta

Syngenta is a global leader in agriculture; rooted in science and dedicated to bringing plant potential to life. Each of our 28,000 employees in more than 90 countries work together to solve one of humanity’s most pressing challenges: growing more food with fewer resources. A diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace environment are enablers of our ambition to be the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture. Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.

About Us

Through leading innovations, we help farmers around the world meet the challenge of feeding a growing population and taking care of our planet. In this role, the Digital Agriculture Enablement Lead will help drive the adoption of digital ag tools that support the overall success of our business and our grower customers. This position has a flexible work location and can be based remotely across Canada.

Accountabilities

Lead product implementation roadmaps with stakeholders to successfully deliver inclusion of digital tools into campaigns & offers and connectivity into Syngenta platforms (Marketing Communications, Customer Marketing, Programs)

Work across various teams to drive the functionality for digital offers.

Drive adoption of Digital systems to deliver success and enhance the customer experience across internal audiences (Marketing, Finance, Customer Service, Supply Chain)

Responsible for collecting feedback from users/customers of current product features and support the co-ordination of business needs of tools to streamline processes

Advance digital fluency with commercial teams through training and on-boarding of internal teams of Digital Ag tools and features and develop a customer support strategy for Digital tools

Coordinate testing agronomic and behavioural hypotheses with key stakeholders to evaluate if specific agronomic insights are feasible for Syngenta to execute and if growers show demand for these agronomic insights to be deployed in digital decision support tools

Staying current with trends and technologies that support Digital Ag performance in Canada

Qualifications

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in an agricultural or business related field and a minimum of 4 years experience in a customer focused environment

Experience with Salesforce.com is an asset

Working knowledge of digital ag tools

Thoroughly familiar with agronomic assessment, crop production, utilization of farm management systems, precision ag tools and ag distribution channel alignment

Ability to collaborate effectively across the commercial teams; Highly effective in both individual and team environments

Excellent written, oral communication and presentation ability

Supporting change management of new digital tools

Business acumen with ability to comprehend business drivers, challenges and potential obstacles, then develop effective solutions

Resilient and flexible, able to adjust rapidly from adverse change, difficult or complex situations, then continually improves upon present skills and develops new capabilities

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.

Syngenta Contact Information:
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Location: Guelph, ON

Job date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:09:31 GMT