Senior Herbicide & Seedcare & Biostimulant Manager

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. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

• Manage the existing and determine the future pipeline of Brands within the assigned portfolio area, with the objective of achieving or exceeding our 5-year business growth plan.
• Create and implement brand strategies and direct campaigns to drive grower awareness, usage, and loyalty.
• Bring new technology to growers, aligned to their needs, and further strenghthen the leadership position of Syngenta in the Indonesia agriculture market.
• Guide and develop brand manager to be an expert in the overall aspect of brand management.

Accountabilities:

• Create brand plans to achieve growth and development of the portfolio.
• Manage end to end cross-functional activities and stakeholders to ensure the delivery of brand objectives.
• Strengthen the assigned portfolio with New Brands that provide needed innovation to growers.
• Develop A&P plans and co-ordinate implementation with the Campaign Team and creative agencies.
• Create pricing and channel strategy, aligned with overall marketing objectives for each brand.
• Co-ordinate with Technical Excellence Team to ensure brand benefits are fully demonstrated to growers and Sales Team Brand and Crop knowledge is complete.
• Manage country, region, and global stakeholders to ensure smooth functioning of portfolio business and commercial processes.
• Coach and develop brand manager

• Minimum bachelor degree in agriculture/ marketing/ economics
• Robust analytical and conceptual skills, broad financial understanding
• Ability to think in a structured and strategic manner
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail and able to condense and communicate complex information
• Quickly understand key stakeholders and build key support networks
• Analysis of market growth and productivity opportunities
• Understand technical and functional benefits of the products
• Ability to translate technical data to Reason To Believe to convince customer

• Require to travel extensively, in most case travel to village.
• Occasionally will need to work on the weekend.