About Syngenta

Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.

Please note: Position located in Downers Grove, IL - full Syngenta relocation benefits available.

Purpose

• Partner with the Head of Insights & Analytics in leading the implementation of a new MDM platform supporting Grower data across North America Seeds.
• The purpose of the Grower Data Manager role is to lead the day to day function of grower data management for the North America Seeds Organization
• This role will drive the execution of the Grower Data Strategy and coordinate with consumers of grower data across NA Seeds.
• Partner with IT partners and the Digital team on leveraging the technology enabling quality grower data.
• Provide direction to the Grower Data Analyst on data profiling and data completeness expectations
• Lead the use of Grower Data with the Commercial team as a strategic asset.
• Develop and enforce grower data governance guiding principles and policies.
• Escalate grower data issues to the data governance board.

Accountabilities

• Execute on the Grower Data Strategy in partnership with the Head Insights & Analytics
• Coordinate collaboration between Sales, Marketing and Digital on how Grower Data is captured, cleaned and utilized.
• Establish KPI’s tracking the quality of our Grower Data
• Enable improved sales productivity for Sales teams by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of Grower Data.
• Act as the central contact point for the issues impacting grower attributes common across the enterprise and report them to the governance board
• Own attributes used across the NA Seeds enterprise to define grower data governance standards, rules and processes.
• Ensure the grower data governance objectives are cascaded down to individual functions
• Recommend improvements in grower data governance from an enterprise perspective

Qualifications

Critical knowledge

• Bachelor's Degree or higher.
• Seasoned Master Data Manager experienced with grower or customer data and possessing deep understanding of its impact on Syngenta Business.
• A broad knowledge of agriculture industry and markets is desirable
• Demonstrated ability to design, lead, implement, and support MDM initiatives and processes in a data driven environment.
• Experience implementing at least one new MDM system and corresponding data cleansing activities
• Experience with extensive data toolsets for integration and conversion (ETL) extract, transform and loads
• Experience with CRM/Salesforce
• Strong leadership competencies around strategic thinking, determining and acting as a continuous force to drive business forward

Critical experience

• 7+ years architecting and managing master data management efforts
• Innovative thinking, desire for continuous improvement
• Experience successfully communicating complex technical concepts, processes and procedures to all levels of audiences from senior managers to end-users;
• Ability to clearly and accurately define problems by collecting data and facts and the ability to develop solutions to those problems
• Experience or knowledge of SAP system, Salesforce.Com, Microsoft Excel and Access and other programming 

Learn more and apply online at:

https://syngenta.taleo.net/careersection/unitedstates/jobdetail.ftl?job=18005622&tz=GMT-06%3A00

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