Product Lead - Sugarbeets (Syngenta) - Employment, career opportunity in USA

Job Title:   Product Lead - Sugarbeets Job - #2736181A2
Location: - (Minnetonka, Minnesota, Mid-West United States, USA)
Company: Syngenta
Deadline: 18th Oct 2013
Job Type: Full Time
Minimum Years Experience Required: N/A
Salary: Competitive
Division: Strategic Crops
Function: Asset Management
Job ID: 4154

Role Purpose/Accountabilities:
Role purpose:

- Develop strategies and provide leadership to maximize the lifetime profitability of products, while ensuring all US and Canadian Business units receive strong products that are well desinged, properly positioned and efficently supplied for incorporation into customer offers.

Dimensions:

- Financial: Revenue and Budget
- People: No of direct reports 0, No of indirect reports 0
- Geographic Scope: US/CAN

Accountabilities:
- Develops the annual product plans for the Sugarbeet Seeds crop
- Presents campaign plan to Customer Marketing leads of involved commercial units and monitors implementation and results.
- Implement plans to maximize products profitability and volumes, e.g. pricing, positioning, advancement, assortment mgt., promotion & advertising as well as developing comprehensive value propositions based on advantages of our offer vs. competition and benefits for growers & value chain.
- Actively contributes to the development & continuous up-dates of integrated crop strategies.
- Coordinates with the marketing team (Communications, etc) to ensure timely production and delivery of required marketing and communication material as stipulated in the marketing plan.
- Develops/maintains a competitor and market information database in line with respective guidelines.
- Work closely and effectively with sales, product evaluation, production and supply, finance and breeders.
- Manage Official Trials with the local Sugar Cooperatives, manage relationship with sugar coopertive seed committees
- Actively participate in the advancement and sales production planning process
- Performs other duties as assigned.

Transition accountabilities:

- Establish the networks and cross functional relationships required to successfully develop targeted annual marketing/campaign plans.
- Build & maintain strong links to key business partners such as, Crop Team, R&D, Production, Finance, Commercial Units and Supply Chain as well as potential external contributors to an integrated offer approach.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience: Critical experience and knowledge:

- 3+ years marketing or sales experience
- Experience with field research trials and demos.
- Minimum of a BS in Business, Economics, Agriculture, Marketing or related field.
- Master's degree, MBA or equivalent business experience preferred.
- Ability to influence direct and indirect cross functional relationships
- Successful track record of people/process and project management.

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities:

- Applies effective grower, channel and influencer segmentation
- Creates strong decision base for product management
- Develops annual product plans and monitors execution & results
- Develops effective product/offer communications
- Understands market dynamics and competitive environment
- Understands customer needs
- Has deep and broad crop and product knowledge
- Anticipates changes in the market and adjusts marketing/campaign plans accordingly
- Analytical thinking
- Strong communication and presentation skills

Critical leadership capabilities:

- Sets ambitious goals
- Communicates with impact
- Leads change and holds ambiguity
- Focuses on customers
- Manages for performance
- Collaborates across boundaries

Additional Information:

- All applicants must be eligible to work in the US
- Travel requirements 20% - 30%
- Must sign a Non-Compete if offered this position.

Innovations:
Employee may, as part of his/her role and maybe through multifunctional teams, participate in the creation and design of innovative solutions. In this context, Employee may contribute to inventions, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets.


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