Procurement and Productivity Supervisor

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.

Procurement (70%)

• Coordinate with Regional Direct Procurement and Productivity teams to implement strategies, execute initiatives, and deliver productivity cost savings.
• Support Seeds Field Crop P&S competitiveness to meet or exceed market benchmarks.
• Implement Target Operating Models (TOMs) in line with regional strategies.
• Ensure maximum value is achieved throughout the end-to-end procurement process.
• Lead negotiations and drive continuous improvement of a portfolio of agreements and preferred suppliers, aligned with purchasing strategies and supplier relationship management.
• Establish and apply leading-practice procurement techniques, ensuring compliance with company procedures and guidelines.
• Participate in Supply Chain activities to improve performance (e.g., claims process), reduce costs, and deliver synergy savings targets.
• Provide market and supplier intelligence (cost, risk, and performance) to enable rapid, effective decision-making.
• Develop and use spend tracking and reporting tools to monitor local expenditure, identify leverage opportunities, support supplier rationalization, and ensure conformance to strategies.
• Support budgeting and cost analysis for Seeds Field Crop P&S.
• Monitor and analyze standard and day-to-day operations; identify and deliver productivity improvements across all areas.
• Coordinate and support assigned projects and site improvement activities in line with targets.
• Lead waste, cost, and quality improvement projects at the plant and cross-functional initiatives to deliver sustainable savings.
• Regularly evaluate existing and new contracts and procurement operations; identify strengths and weaknesses and implement actions to improve resilience to business challenges.

Productivity Improvement (30%)

• Monitor and analyse standard and/or daily operations and develop productivity in all areas.
• Coordinate and support any assigned projects and improvement activities within site as per target.
• Coordinate with Regional direct procurement and productivity to implement strategies, execute and delivery productivity cost savings
• Lead improvement projects in waste, cost and quality improvement at plant and any other cross functional projects to deliver annual and sustainable savings.
• Review the progress of continues improvement activities regularly
• Define the weakness and strong points of functions, create projects to make them more resilient for difficulties.

Critical knowledge

• Bachelor degree is required
• Practical knowledge of Purchasing policies and procedure
• Well known in project management, cost and capital plan.
• Prioritizing, planning and monitoring Improvement initiatives to meet timelines
• Good end-to-end supply chain knowledge in Agri-business or closely related industry is an advantage

Critical experience

• Minimum of 03 years’ work experience in Purchasing/ Procurement
• Strong influencing, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Innovative thinker and enthusiast for new digital solutions to existing problems and opportunities
• Good coordination skills with field production teams, plant teams and other functions
• Good experience on SAP system

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Good at data collect & analysis
• Good presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Good at communication
• Well negotiate & problem solving
• Good English communication

 

• Travel required such as go to Toller/Vendor/Growers for audit/negotiate/discuss…
• Only open for Vietnamese local candidates