Manager of Data Quality

Company Description

As a global front-runner in crop protection, we support farmers in their fight against various threats, ensuring the provision of sufficient safe, nutritious, and affordable food for everyone – while also reducing the utilization of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection safeguards crops from planting to harvest. From the instance a seed is sown until harvest, crops need to be shielded from weeds, insects, diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat, and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Job Description

ROLE PURPOSE

• Ensure end-to-end data quality control for external trialing activities and all related data capture tasks or related activities during the season, ensure continuous data monitoring for completeness, conclusiveness, and for other qualitative measures and KPIs such as timely delivery.
• Assist the Crop Protection Development Team by coordinating and carrying out Biology-related activities tied to EAME project development, registration, and launches.
• Function as a technical expert for field trial data systems and procedures in service of trial and data quality and in support of the EAME Crop Protection Development Team and CRO teams. Share best practices, manage data flow, and monitor its completeness and quality.
• Motivate continuous improvement with a strong focus on trial data quality and project delivery.
• Support digital transformation and automation in all areas.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Product Biology Support:

• Project and resource planning:
  • Ensure consistency and quality of data in/from planning tools.
  • Provide analysis and guidance for effective resource allocation.
  • Monitor the in-season delivery and quality of trial data.
  • Support Product Biologists in data mining for the EAME results and in the preparation of EAME Technical Launches.
  • Offer end-user training for the Crop Protection Development community.
• Biological dossier preparation:
  • Offer data mining for the Biological Assessment Dossier (BAD).
  • Assist Biological Dossier Specialist in BAD compilation.
  • Ensure 2nd level data quality check in accordance with the requirements of the Biological Dossier.

Trialing Data Management

• Trialing data quality and delivery:
  • Coordinate in-season trial data flow, including publication of protocols and monitoring of data delivery, regularly in the season as the trial progresses and at interim and final report dates. Ensure timely delivery of data to end users.
  • Drive improvements in trial data quality with optimal use of system capabilities and automation (Study Rulesets, validations, ARM improvements) and active monitoring of data quality, providing feedback to trialists and CRO.
  • Assess data quality in trial reports, ensuring completeness and accuracy of data throughout and at the end of the season thereby improving data quality and productivity in the data-to-dossier process.
  • Manage specific requests and corrections in accordance with GEP regulations.

• Trialing and CRO support
  • Share best practices and develop guidance documents and training material. Ensure effective data and knowledge sharing using Syngenta tools (BITS, ARM, GDB, and others) by user support and monitoring.
  • Support CRO managers, external and internal trialing leads, and trialing teams in trial allocations, progress monitoring, and KPI assessments.
  • Provide end-user training.
  • First-level support for end users, internal and external.
  • Closely collaborate with the PB supports community and New Technology and Data Science Team

Knowledge sharing and continuous improvement:

• Key user of R&D tools (e.g., Bits suite, GDB, Smartdoc, Veeva, Teamspace, Spotfire)
• Maintain a good technical information flow within the PB team, CRO team, and other relevant teams within or outside of CPD.
• Support digital transformation and automation in all areas and build digital automation capability.
• Be open-minded, and proactively search for best practices and methods that can enhance data collection and quality.

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

• Gather and defend EAME needs and requirements for digital initiatives and further development of Syngenta BITS and ARM tools.
• Work closely with CPD representatives from other regions within the product team to agree on priorities and suitable development resource allocation, in compliance with the roadmap and product vision.
• Roll out and train new systems, improvements, and associated ways of working.
• Influence development of cross-product solutions and collaborate with BITS product teams to agree on optimal options.

Qualifications

Relevant Experience

• Minimum 3 years R&D/Crop Protection Development experience in agrochemical or related industries.
• Experience in trialing and field data systems and processes.
• Strong collaborator who has worked in cross-functional teams/projects and remotely across countries.
• Good level of data literacy.

Education

• Master's Degree (Agronomy, Crop Science, Biology, Genetics, Chemistry)
• Broad knowledge of IS Systems (e.g., Windows and other MS Office systems)

Languages

• English is the working language. Must be fluent.
• Competency in other languages is desirable.

Additional Information

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

• A culture that promotes work/life balance, appreciates diversity, and hosts numerous events throughout the year.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Possibility to work from home in one of these countries: Spain, Hungary, Italy, or France.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• A role that contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
• A culture of learning and a wide range of development opportunities, including access to learning platforms (Degreed, LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly)

Equal Opportunity

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or any other employment practices because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.