Head of Digital Prospecting Collaborations

Company: Syngenta
Location: Durham
Posted on: February 15, 2020

Job Description:

What You Will Do: - Lead global strategy for digital prospecting, collaborations, and competitor benchmarking, including partner selection and scope of collaborations for seeds R & D and engage in negotiations with potential collaboration partners and partner with SYT M & A, ventures, licensing and legal to draft business cases and/or term sheets and definitive agreements. - Develop digital prospecting, collaborations, and competitor benchmarking strategy to optimize value both from our existing global digital portfolio and maximize opportunities to generate incremental value from all potential acquisitions and collaborations. - Implement the digital prospecting, collaborations, and competitor benchmarking strategy, ensures that all key deliverables and milestones of the acquisition and collaboration agreements are met, and works to prioritize and tension resources across our digital acquisition and collaboration portfolio. - Analyze competitor and potential partner digital landscape and develop and maintain a risk and opportunity profile for each to achieve and maintain leadership in data sciences and analytics. - Partner with Head of Data Sciences & Analytics to drive vision, strategy, priorities, and actions for Company Seeds Development to achieve and maintain leadership in data-driven decisions enabling development and commercial launch success of superior seeds products. - Ensure alignment, support and engagement across Seeds R & D for the vision and strategy. - Maintain effective connection with corporate digital transformation efforts in Company, and related Data Science and Analytics programs in R & D and commercial. - Represent Company in relevant external events to support the awareness of Company as a digital leader. - Maintain external connections and collaborations with leading computational scientists, for the exploration of advanced computational methods. - Responsible for monitoring progress against milestones and resource use and driving metric based project decision processes across our digital prospecting, collaborations, and competitor benchmarking portfolio. - Develop and deliver regular updates to internal SYT stakeholders and governance bodies regarding status and progress of breeding digital prospecting, collaborations, and competitor benchmarking. - Ensures identification, assessment, and management of key risks in digital prospecting, collaborations, and competitor benchmarking projects and programs. Qualifications Who You Are: - Agile mind set to react efficiently and appropriately to rapidly changing business environment - Excellent networking skills and ability to influence people without line management responsibility - Skilled in seeking business input (strategic imperative and prioritization) and translation into implementable Research direction - Ability to work effectively across disciplines and cultures and across geographies You Have: - Minimum 10 years of experience working in seed/biotech industry - Minimum 10 years of experience in global research and development environment - PhD in Agronomy, Plant Breeding/Genetics or relevant field - Experience in the development, utilization and deployment of digital tools in plant breeding - Experience in development of strategic plans and contractual agreements - Experience in technology prospecting and managing technology collaborations - Demonstrated ability to successfully influence colleagues across functional boundaries - Effective time management, with the ability to successfully plan and control activities over a number of months or years - Experience working successfully in international and multidisciplinary project team environment

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