India Field Crops Head

Role purpose
Lead the India Field Crops Seeds business with full accountability for business performance, strategy execution and sustainable growth. Drive end-to-end value creation across portfolio, demand generation, commercial execution, supply alignment and talent development to strengthen Syngenta's market leadership in India.
Shape and execute the long-term growth strategy for the Field Crops business by integrating market insights, customer needs, innovation pipelines and operational excellence. Build a high-performing organization that delivers superior commercial outcomes while fostering collaboration across Commercial, Marketing, Supply, Production & Supply, R&D, Finance and regional stakeholders.
Accountabilities
Business & P&L Leadership
Accountable for delivering the India Field Crops Seeds business strategy, revenue, market share, profitability and cash-generation objectives. Drive sustainable business growth while ensuring strong financial discipline and resource optimization
Strategic Growth & Portfolio Management
Define and execute the medium and long-term strategy for the India Field Crops business. Shape portfolio investment priorities, lifecycle management, innovation launches, germplasm deployment and growth opportunities that strengthen competitive advantage and customer value creation.
Commercial Excellence & Market Leadership
Lead commercial strategy and execution across pricing, demand generation, channel effectiveness, customer engagement and in-season business performance management. Ensure superior execution and profitable market share growth across all Field Crops segments
End-to-End Business Integration
Orchestrate alignment across Marketing, Supply Chain, Production & Supply, R&D, Finance and Sales teams to ensure effective planning, forecasting, inventory management and business delivery. Drive enterprise-wide decision-making that balances short-term performance with long-term value creation.
Customer, Market & Industry Stewardship
Develop deep understanding of the evolving agricultural landscape, customer needs, channel dynamics and competitive environment. Build strategic relationships with key customers, distributors, industry influencers and external stakeholders to strengthen Syngenta's leadership position.
Innovation & Transformation
Champion innovation, business model evolution and continuous improvement to accelerate growth and improve organizational effectiveness. Foster a culture that embraces change, drives operational excellence and leverages data-driven decision making.
Leadership & Talent Development
Build, inspire and develop a high-performing leadership team and talent pipeline for the future. Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion and performance excellence while strengthening succession readiness across the organization
Stakeholder Management & Enterprise Leadership
Influence and collaborate across country, regional and global leadership teams to secure alignment on strategic priorities and business decisions. Represent India Field Crops in key leadership forums and contribute to broader business and enterprise objectives
Critical success factors & key challenges
Strong end-to-end business leadership with full P&L accountability.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution excellence.
Deep customer and market orientation.
Strong matrix leadership and stakeholder influencing capability.
Proven track record of building high-performing teams and future leaders.
Enterprise mindset with the ability to drive growth across complex business ecosystems.
Critical Competencies for Success:
Driving Results
Drives towards top business performance. Pushes to meet or beat goals, and personally improves performance. At highest levels, changes what the organization or even the industry can do, creating far greater results.
Strategic Thinking
Focuses on larger, mid-term issues, and creates plans and strategies. Develops a strategy that conceptualizes and incorporates complex market issues, and provides a clear concept for the future that people understand and which enables them to move forward.
Collaborating and Influencing
Engages with others over whom they have no authority. Creates partnerships. Collaborates to achieve results. At the highest levels, creates enduring partnerships across functions. This capability incorporates collaboration, influencing, and networking.
Building People Capabilities
Develops people over the long term. Identifies issues, gives feedback, and supports and enables development. Creates systematic development across commercial SE organization and through leadership of the seed CDG enables cross functional talent development.
Knowledge, experience & capabilities
Relevant management background in Seeds, strategic and end to end operational experience
Strong enterprise wide business leadership - holistic P&L focus from top- to bottom-line, strong financial acumen
Good understanding of [territory] agricultural market environment (ideal) and knows how to manage in emerging market context in changing agricultural industry
Capable to influence and manage across matrix and network structures
Critical knowledge
Syngenta products and key competitor products
Crops and agronomy knowledge
Customers / Channels in country
Internal processes / Governance
Marketing, Business operations, basic understanding on R&D and finance
Critical experience
In-depth experience of agri-business sector in Marketing, Sales and Strategy
Experience in product / asset management
Working relationship with above territory organization and other companies
Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities
Understand market dynamics and competitive environment and translate it into strategy
Designs effective product life cycle management strategy and brand strategy
Ability to apply Marketing and Sales Excellence (MaSE) Pillars effectively
Creates strong, distinctive brand plans
Delivers distinctive value proposition to customer
Develops/executes campaign plans
Develops/implements effective product communications
Develops/implements effective pricing strategy (lead value pricing, influence transactional pricing) with the pricing manager
Support effective field force strategy
Support effective CRM strategies
Able to use market research effectively to understand customer, markets and channels
Anticipates changes in the market and adjusts strategies accordingly
Analytical thinking
Financial acumen
Strategic thinking
Influencing and negotiation
Communication and presentation skills
People/team management
Program / project management

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No