Global agronomy head (seeds) – Uberlândia/MG

Minas Gerais
Efetivo (CLT)
Engenheiro Agrônomo

Accountabilities

• Ensure we have the Right Seed Quantity & Quality, at the Right Place, and Right Time.
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of the primary agronomic cropping systems in all regions where the companyoperates including corn, soy, sunflower, rice, and cereals.
• Serves as domain specialist to all regional SD teams in areas such as fertilization and soil management, pest and disease management, planting density, irrigation, optimization of crop inputs, digital agriculture, and alternative rotational crops.
• Recognizes specific interactions between cultivation environment and farming practices and inputs on crop performance and applies this understanding to local climate conditions to produce high quality seeds and data.
• Partner with regional Agronomy Leads to drive execution, strategy, priorities, and actions for SD to achieve and maintain leadership in data-driven decisions enabling development, delivery, and commercial launch success of superior seeds products.
• Drive and champion standardization and global best practices, protocols, and methodologies for optimal pipeline delivery.
• Bring balance between improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of operations
• Provide input and drive implementation of our sustainability strategy and regenerative agriculture programs
• Build effective partnerships with all Regional and Global platform stakeholders, crop subject matter experts, and external experts to deliver a robust product pipeline.
• Promote a safe work environment and a strong safety culture.
• Maintain a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Responsible for monitoring progress against milestones and resource use and driving metric-based project decision processes across our Seeds portfolio.
• Develop and deliver regular updates to internal SYT stakeholders and governance bodies regarding status and progress of our Agronomy platforms.
• Ensures identification, assessment, and management of key risks in our production environments
• Maintain effective communication and interaction with collaboration partners, to ensure execution of short-term plans and to support alignment of long-term strategy for our collaborations.

Qualifications

• Technical knowledge in overall cropping system, agronomy, seed production and data generation for field crops
• The candidate needs to have a proven-track record of demonstrating the business impact of improvements to agronomic practices.
• Technical knowledge of R&D product pipelines and portfolios in Agriculture is required
• Understanding of people leadership and development for large and globally diverse teams
• Project and portfolio management knowledge in the context of a matrixed, cross-disciplinary organization
• Knowledge of and experience in R&D and business organizations and processes
• Project, program and portfolio management knowledge to deliver goals in a complex organization (cross functional, cross-sites) and technical environment
• Experience in managing intensively managed field nursery operations is key
• Experience in managing all agronomic aspects of seed production