SE Supply Planning & Logistics Specialist RO&MD

Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs.

Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions. 

Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.

Role purpose

Ensure effective and efficient supply planning activities for Syngenta Seeds; manage through supervision, control and optimization of the logistics operations.

Accountabilities

• Act as a key point between the regional and local teams regarding all the demand activities, ensure resolutions are found for all the challenges, in due time;
• Management of the local demand, ensure accurate reflection into planning systems;
• Provide visibility to commercial team on seeds allocation, supply plan, challenges and solutions to overcome these challenges;   
• Follow up daily the execution of supply plan, communicate availability information to the commercial team on volumes and timing;
• Proactively identify and communicate future supply constraints, allocation, T&P campaign phasing and suggest solutions in order to meet market expectations;
• Maintain updated the master data, collaborate with marketing on the SKU catalog’s update;
• Follow up on KPI’s for sales forecasting and demand planning and initiate corrective actions;
• Place and follow up intercompany purchase orders both for commercial and demo seeds;
• Stock management through redeployments, returns in line with company policy;
• Constantly seek forecasting process improvement, contribute to the local / regional continuous improvement projects;
• Manage the management of the quality issues: registration in the systems, resolutions follow up with relevant departments;
• Ensure timely and accurate customs clearance of goods and complaint management;
• Prepare various reports in line with legal requirements (Intrastat, Waste management reports, reports to Ministry of Agriculture, reports for Customs, reports to Bureau of Statistics), and company requirements;
• Closely monitor allocated local resources, FuCo Budget (variable distribution), report any deviations from initial plan without delay, work out on corrections;
• Ensure the daily operations between the internal stakeholders and the logistics providers;
• Cost control of the services / invoices received from the service providers.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• Knowledge of supply chain and sales operation drivers and logics
• Knowledge of Planning Cycles, Sales Cycles, Production, Processes
• SAP and Microsoft office skills at the proficiency level
• Reporting capabilities
• Proven ability to deliver promises under tight time lines
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Result oriented and customer focused
• Analytical and commercially well developed
• Proficient time management skills
• Quality conscious and service minded
• Able to cope with pressure and conflicting demands
• Problem solving ability / decision making ability
• Fluent in English (verbal as well as in writing)