AME Professional Solutions Regulatory Manager

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

Role purpose

• Manage submission activities in the SPS area by partnering with key stakeholders (i.e. commercial, biology and project managers, Global/Regional/Country regulatory.
• Manage all activities of assigned products that are specific to SPS and assure that agreed, existing SPS uses and SPS products are registered on the AME/RUK market.
• Agree with key stakeholders (e.g. via rPLT) on the projects to go forward and on the relevant gaps to be defended and registered.
• Make sure that all involved functions such as Product Safety and SPS Biology, deliver their tasks in a timely manner and on purpose.
• Develop knowledge in RUK and AME registration processes and requirements for biocides and provide guidance to stakeholders accordingly.

The person will report to the SPS Team Lead within the AMEA Regulatory team.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop the AME/RUK SPS portfolio and deliver the required registrations.
• Carefully identify SPS products that need AME/RUK registration activities. Drive the preparation of SPS registration dossiers and deliver them according to plans, to AME/RUK countries.
• Identify and properly plan resources/time/budget for delivery of registration dossiers working with the regional operation team.
• Identify, drive and coordinate activities, engage resources, that are needed to deliver assistance to AME/RUK countries for answering questions from authorities on SPS products and to get registration dossiers complete and ready on time. Deliver registration dossiers to countries
• Recognize issues or opportunities that can affect or influence projects, inform customers and respond quickly to resolve problems, e.g. with authorities, or to propose options to achieve desired outcomes
• Alert SPS Global regulatory team on all internal and external issues and opportunities that can impact global SPS projects and propose strategies that overcome issues and/or accelerate “go to market”

Qualifications

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• In depth knowledge of license to sell principles and requirements
• Technical background with some knowledge and experience of AME/RUK regulatory requirements
• Solid knowledge of internal processes or ability to quickly acquire knowledge of internal processes

Critical experience

• Technical background, Degree in science
• Minimum 4 years of working experience in registration or relevant development business area

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Good networking and communication skills across international dimensions. Team player
• Capability to lead team geographically dispersed and cross functional
• High organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to complete and deliver projects on time
• Proactive behavior
• Excellent analytical thinking ability
• Open to novelty, “unusual” solution, pragmatism
• Ability to recognize issues or opportunities and to create relevant alerts or options
• Fluent in English, French would be a plus
• Potential and ambition to develop into broader Regulatory Manager role as experience develops.

Critical leadership capabilities

• Collaborate across boundaries
• Focusing on delivery the dossiers according to plans
• Communicates with impact

Critical success factors & key challenges

• The AME registration activities for SPS portfolio are identified and properly planed
• The Stakeholders are on board
• All needed dossiers are delivered in time

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