Regional Active Ingredient Planner

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. 

• Be responsible for master data and MRP (Material Resource Planning) settings of all assigned active ingredients.
• Maintain material balanced plans for all accountable active ingredients.
• Create and maintain a purchase plan and a balanced production plan across the planning horizon to support the sales plan.
• Establish a robust Rough Cut Capacity plan for accountable resources.
• Lead the regional supply chain for assigned AI portfolio including all communication to regional and global stakeholders required for problem solving, prioritizing, and decision-making.
• Develop and implement strategies to manage inventory to target levels while also identifying actions to manage obsolete, slow, or no-moving inventory.
• Understand the end-to-end supply chain sourcing complexity, capacities, lead times, and bottlenecks to ensure an efficient plan.
• Collaborate with Product Management to ensure alignment between the business and Production & Supply.
• Evaluate feasibility of forecast changes, identify, and communicate constraints in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings.
• Collaborate with Global Supply Chain Manager on regional supply chain strategy and design.
• Manage regional allocation plan when Active Ingredients are constrained.
• Negotiate with Global Planning on supply and inventory.
• Lead or participate on planning improvement projects.

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Logistics, or a related field of study and five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Demand Planning Coordinator, Commercial Project Coordinator, Business Operations Analyst, or a closely related occupation.

Requires three (3) years of experience with: working in the agriculture industry.

Requires two (2) years of experience with: tools including ERP, Qliksense, and Advanced Planning; demand planning processes; project management and conducting cross function projects; Microsoft Office including Microsoft Excel; cross functional and cross-cultural stakeholder management; Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and constrain management.

Must pass a background check and drug test before beginning employment.

What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, 9 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

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, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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