Head of Commercial Data and AI Strategy

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all –while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Job Description

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture. We provide topquality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions to enhance farmers success. We are searching for a Head of Commercial Data & AI Strategy to lead and transform our organizations data and analytics capabilities. This role involves developing and executing an integrated Data, Analytics, and AI strategy that accelerates commercial growth, drives business value, ensures data governance, and encourages collaboration across regions.

The Head of Commercial Data & AI Strategy will also lead the Canadian Data Operations team, ensuring the availability of quality, connected, and accessible data. This position will deliver innovative, datadriven solutions that enhance customer experience and boost market performance.

Accountabilities:

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Lead the development & execution of Syngenta Canada’s Data, Analytics, and AI strategy aligned with business objectives and digital transformation initiatives.
• Establish and maintain a data & analytics roadmap that drives business value and competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with business leaders to identify, reimagine, and prioritize datadriven solutions and secure buyin and resourcing for strategic initiatives.
• Champion the Data, Analytics & AI agenda within Syngenta Canada Inc., communicating the data strategy and initiatives to various audiences, from technical teams to executive leadership
• Drive data literacy & datadriven decisionmaking culture

• Collaboration & Partnership:

  • Establish & maintain strong partnerships with North American and Global Digital and AI leaders to leverage and adapt existing solutions and actively participate in global data initiatives to ensure Canadian business requirements are represented and addressed.
  • Create visibility for Canadian initiatives that could benefit other regions& drive collaboration opportunities

  • Technical & Operational Excellence:

    • Oversee the development of data architecture and infrastructure to support analytics capabilities and AI initiatives
    • Act as the Jurisdictional Data Privacy Lead for a Canadian organization, ensuring robust data privacy governance & ensuring privacyaware capabilities
    • Monitor and report on key performance indicators related to data initiatives.
    • • Establish and maintain thought leadership in Data, Analytics, and AI through the monitoring of technologies & trends, and sharing best practices and insights with the organization

      • Team Development:

        • Build highperforming Data Management and Analytics teams, fostering a culture of high performance, continuous learning, innovation, and growth
        • Ensure the team is engaged as ambassadors of the Data & AI strategy
        • Foster crossfunctional collaboration

        • Qualifications

          • 7+ years of experience in data & technology leadership with 5+ years in a people leadership capacity
          • Advanced degree in a quantitativerelated field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering)
          • Business acumen & strategy planning expertise
          • Comprehensive knowledge of AI & Machine Learning frameworks & tools
          • Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise data architecture & governance frameworks
          • Experience in developing & implementing data strategies & digital transformation projects and change management.
          • Track record of leading enterprisewide data & AI initiatives
          • Practical knowledge of tools, frameworks, and technologies in the following categories: Data Strategy (Data governance, data management), Business Intelligence (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik), Machine Learning (R, Python, SAS, SPSS), and Cloud Platforms (Google Azure, Amazon Web Services)
          • Understanding andor experience with Data Protection compliance with current legislation
          • Excellent communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders

          • Critical leadership capabilities

            • Strategic thinking & vision setting with strong problemsolving capabilities
            • Change management expertise
            • Ability to engage, inspire & motivate
            • Stakeholder management and communication
            • Crossfunctional leadership effectiveness
            • Ability to motivate and foster a highperformance team culture, emphasizing continuous
            • Learning and growth while advocating for the team

            • Additional Information

              • May participate in creating and designing innovative solutions. In this context, may also contribute to inventions, designs, and other work products, including knowhow, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets.
              • Authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship now or in the future.

              • What We Offer:

                • We offer a competitive base salary and incentive bonus potential, combined with challenging and meaningful work, learning and career development opportunities and a great team environment.
                • A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes personal and professional development and offers flexible work options to meet both your work and personal needs.
                • Comprehensive Benefit offering, Pension and Group Retirement program with company match, and Profit Sharing.
                • Focus on Wellness and innovative programs that support overall health and wellbeing such as annual Lifestyle Account and free Headspace App.
                • Progressive Employee Policies and Programs including a Flexible Work Location approach, and a vacation policy that provides up to 30 days’ vacation for all employees.

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

                  Syngenta Contact Information:
                  If you need assistance during the application process, please contact the Service Desk at [email protected]

                  Syngenta Canada welcomes applications from all qualified candidates and is able to accommodate persons with disabilities. For more information about accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process or if you would like more information on our accommodation policies, please contact [email protected]

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