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
As an Operations Specialist for the North America Product Safety group, you will support the successful deployment of solutions and provide support for digital fluency within the team both locally and globally. To perform these activities and support our internal culture this role must have easy access to the North America Crop Protection headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. This role is eligible for hybrid working.
Duties:
- Work with end users to elicit and document business needs leveraging Agile methodologies to support and develop digital solutions and explore and conduct analysis on business improvement opportunities.
- Collaborate with the technical team to maximize and leverage the understanding of functional and non-functional requirements, to ensure that the software solutions developed and tested are fit for purpose, meet business needs and are operationally sustainable.
- Advocate for enterprise systems and maintain a super-user role to support Product Safety technical staff.
- Create and modify computer processes to extract information from databases and Interact with scientists and experts to understand how data needs to be converted, loaded and presented and Provide configuration and installation support for specialty software and systems specific to Product Safety.
- Perform development, implementation, and management of cross-functional Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to deliver insights that enable data driven decisions.
- Support technical staff in the delivery of new capabilities and ensure operability of applications and proper lifecycle management within Product Safety and Manage and support the Product Safety laboratory instrument control systems and active directory machine group.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in an IT-related discipline, with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
- Proficient in Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe, SmartSheet, Microsoft Teams, Power apps, and SharePoint.
- Experience with database development.
- Ability to write scripts in multiple languages such as, but not limited to, Visual Basic, SQL, Shiny and have knowledge of software development lifecycles including Agile development and testing.
- Experience in project management and leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage sound business judgment to translate complex issues/needs into technical requirements and specifications and the ability to translate technical concepts and business information into various forms of documentation for diverse audience types (non-technical business teams, technical teams, system administrators, and integrators).
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
- Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
- 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
- Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.
Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal.
Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI
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, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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