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.

As the Sales Data Analyst, you will be responsible for collecting, stitching together and analyzing data to enable insights, behavior models, and communicate how those findings support data driven decisions to deliver improvement in operational excellence, customer experience, and profitability supporting our commercial organization.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Perform development, implementation, and management of cross-functional Seeds Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to deliver related insights to the Sales Heads, District Managers and salespeople, seeking to drive significant impact and value enabled through data driven decisions across the business
• Improve the data availability by acting as a liaison between analytics & IT teams
• Bring a deep understanding of Sales analytics with capability to develop analytics and insights in a “functional agnostic’ manner
• Produce data through SQL / and other programming and partner with the application delivery lead on developing reports and dashboards to feed into daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual KPI’s and dashboards
• Leverage data and information structure to ensure “single source of truth”
• Develop, measure and recommend decisions based on agreed upon KPI’s (both leading and lagging)
• Explore and conduct analysis on business improvement opportunities, including ad hoc requests
• Create and modify computer processes to extract information from company databases
• Interact with data scientists and industry experts to understand how data needs to be converted, loaded and presented
• Enable North America Seeds battle plans to drive growth in AgroCore Zones (e.g., market analytics support, target lists, product performance data, etc.)
• Ensure effective and efficient execution through agreed ways-of-working
• Support Business Analytics Lead and Head of Data Insights & Analytics to develop and deliver insights to the Seeds Leadership Team, Seeds Planning & Execution decision body and Operational decision body

 

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Math or related field
• Master’s Degree preferred
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with data analysis and preparation, including experience with very large data sets
• Strong business and collaboration skills, and responsive to service needs and operational demands
• Passion and deep understanding of agriculture, marketplace dynamics, competitive environment and Syngenta customer needs
• Understanding of key business drivers for profitable growth

Additional Knowledge, Skills, Traits & Abilities:

• Team oriented, goals oriented, and flexible with proven track record in collaborating with multiple stakeholders and driving results, especially via influence management
• General sales, marketing and technical skills, knowledge of product lines,  customers, distribution channels; agronomic and seed marketing expertise
• Utilization of data discovery tools such as Qlik, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, and Sales Force
• Ability to tell a story with data and drive data literacy
• Understanding of seeds/traits industry value chain and dynamics
• Passion and interest in serving channel partners and growers, including understanding of their needs and way-of-business
• Ability to build good relationships and work cross-functionally
• Experience in database development & data model design
• High-functioning communications skills (both verbal and written) and ability to interface with senior leadership
• Motivate and inspires across all levels of organization through effective communication

Learn more and apply online at:

https://syngenta.taleo.net/careersection/unitedstates/jobdetail.ftl?job=18006464&tz=GMT-06%3A00

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.