Regional Third Party Supply Chain Operations Lead - AMEA

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.

Role Purpose

The AMEA 3rd Party Supply Chain Operations Lead manages end-to-end P&S implementation of 3rd party projects across Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Africa, covering both purchase-for-resale (PfR) and active ingredient (AI) in-licensing deals with external partners. The role drives cross-functional regional teams through structured governance, overseeing execution from deal signature to launch and scale-up, while embedding supply chain input early in contract design to ensure feasibility and risk mitigation.

Success requires navigating diverse regulatory environments, coordinating 40+ suppliers and 600+ SKUs, and aligning with commercial, regulatory, procurement, quality, and supplier functions across multiple time zones. The role also builds strategic supplier partnerships via SRM frameworks and provides transparent pipeline reporting. While focused on in-licensing, it ensures consistent ways of working across out-licensing deals within the AMEA portfolio.

Accountabilities*

• End-to-End Project Leadership: Own P&S implementation of assigned 3rd party in-licensing projects across AMEA, acting as project manager from deal signature through launch and scale-up, ensuring all supply chain readiness criteria are met before commercial go-live.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Orchestrate execution across commercial, regulatory, 3rd party P&S, quality, procurement, suppliers, and import/export compliance functions, providing early visibility of pipeline deals and facilitating alignment across multiple time zones and organizational boundaries.
• Supply Chain Design & Set-Up: Partner with AMEA 3rd Party Portfolio Lead and Global 3rd Party P&S team to design optimal supply chain configurations for new deals, ensuring compliance with country-specific and product-specific requirements, registration timelines, and AMEA infrastructure constraints.
• Regulatory Navigation: Navigate diverse regulatory landscapes across APAC, MEA, and Africa markets, coordinating with regulatory affairs to ensure supply plans align with registration status, import permits, and local compliance requirements.
• Forecast & Binding Process Management: Establish and manage forecast accuracy and binding commitment processes for the 3rd party portfolio, working with regional planning and commercial teams to balance supply availability with AMEA's extended lead times and seasonal demand patterns.
• Contract & Commercial Gatekeeper: Serve as AMEA P&S gatekeeper for purchase-for-resale agreements, collaborating with procurement and Portfolio Lead to identify and resolve contractual gaps, ensuring terms reflect AMEA realities (payment terms, incoterms, currency hedging, minimum order quantities).
• Supplier Relationship Management: Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationships through formal SRM frameworks and regular business reviews (ROPs)
• Focal point of region for P&S issue escalation and drive solution

Business Impact: 

• Accountable for the supply budget supporting sales-+300m$
• Portfolio with medium to high complexity: 600 no of SKU, supply network complexity +40 suppliers
• The inventory holding criteria

Geographical footprint – AMEA region

People:  Leadership team members: Head of AMEA Supply Operations

Critical experience

• 10+ years of supply chain experience e.g. in planning, procurement, logistics and order management, HSES; quality, demand Management & customer service
• An established country/BU network
• Customer facing experience
• Ability to develop processes and procedures through facilitation with the team
• Confidence and capability to constructively challenge
• Experience of managing a supply chain process
• Capabilities to run the projects and cross functional initiatives
• Ability to develop and firm the contract with 3rd party supplier would be a advantage

Critical leadership capabilities

• Strong sense of business ownership
• Collaboration and stakeholders engagement
• Change and transformation
• Strong influence skills
• Effective communication
• Adaptability and decision making