Operations Specialist

Syngenta Crop Protection is a leader in agricultural innovation, bringing breakthrough technologies and solutions that enable farmers to grow productively and sustainably. We offer a leading portfolio of crop protection solutions for plant and soil health, as well as digital solutions that transform the decision-making capabilities of farmers. Our 17,900 employees serve to advance agriculture in more than 90 countries around the world. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and is part of the Syngenta Group.

Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture. 

We all have a critical role to play and add value. Here is how the role can help:

• Responsible for business side of outsourcing Product Safety studies with Contract Research Organizations including gathering and reviewing supporting documents for contracts, ensuring appropriate contract and invoice approvals, generating purchase order ("PO") and letter of authorization, recording PO and invoice payments in global tracking system.
• Provides support updating external resources and staff days in the global Smart Choice planning system.
• Works closely with procurement to initiate and renew laboratory service contracts and purchase orders.  Approves payment of invoices for service contracts.
• Works closely with Procure to Pay Service Delivery analyst, Procurement and with Legal department on procedures and issues concerning purchase orders, invoice management, vendor master data, and contractual agreements with 3rd party vendors.
• Ensures internal financial recordkeeping procedures are consistent with best practices.
• Serves Product Safety technical staff as in house reference source for procedures and compliance with best practices accounting and CRO contracting procedures and processes, invoice management system and troubleshooting.
• Provides guidance and troubleshooting to contract research organization staff on generation and tracking of Product Safety contractual documents, purchase orders, invoices and payments.
• Provides KPI data for reports.
• Support the collation and analysis of request for capital expenditure.

At Syngenta we are highly people focused – we look for professionals who are engaged, collaborative and excellent in execution. Leaders are expected to communicate effectively, develop teams and lead by example. Our industry and our function are changing rapidly so we are looking for new team members with a strong desire to develop themselves. 

You will be a great fit if you have:

• Bachelor's Degree 
• Proficient in Microsoft office skills including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficient in enterprise systems: such as SAP, Salesforce Procure, Smart Choice Connect or similar.
• Experience with the use of digital conferencing tools such as Zoom or MS Teams.
• Preferred experience with Power BI and LLMs such as Co-pilot, Chat GPT, Gemini
• Preferred experience with automated workflows including but not limited to Microsoft Power Automate and Smartsheet.
• Proven experience of delivery to time and quality
• Customer focused mindset
• Quality management / continuous improvement experience

What we offer

• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance
• Up to 31.5 days annual holiday
• Learning culture and wide range of training options
• Good onsite facilities

Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.