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Company Description

Syngenta Group

At the Syngenta Group, our 56,000 people across more than 90 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet – making us the world's most local agricultural technology and innovation partner.

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Syngenta

We are a leading, science-based agriculture company, empowering farmers to meet the demands of modern agriculture. Using cutting-edge innovation, we help farmers to grow resilient, healthy crops that can feed a growing global population, while promoting sustainable farming practices that protect and enhance our planet. Headquartered in Switzerland, we are a global agritech leader with more than 30,000 employees across over 90 countries.

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The Head of Regulatory AMEA & JANZ leads the CP Regulatory function across the region, with overall accountability for obtaining, maintaining, and optimizing registrations of our entire CP portfolio while advancing responsible product use, regulatory compliance, and long-term business sustainability. This role translates a dynamic external environment into clear regional regulatory strategies for the company, protecting our freedom to operate, managing enterprise risks, and enabling business growth.

Leadership Context:

This role provides strategic and tactical leadership to a highly specialized AMEA & JANZ Regulatory organization, operating as a senior regional leader within CP. It requires strong cross-functional partnership with Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Legal, Government Relations, Production & Supply, Sustainability, and Global Regulatory teams, as well as effective representation and strong relationship building with regulators, industry associations, and other external stakeholders in the region.

Accountabilities:

• Lead the AMEA & JANZ Crop Protection Regulatory organization, set strategy, priorities, operating model, and talent plans, drive transformation and continuous improvement to stay best-in-class in achieving functional excellence and business partnering.
• Owner of regulatory strategy and execution for new product registrations, label expansions, registration maintenance, compliance, and lifecycle management across AMEA & JANZ, delivering timely approvals and sustained freedom to operate.
• Serve as the primary senior interface and set direction for engagement with key regulatory authorities and policy stakeholders in AMEA & JANZ together with country managers.
• Drive cross-functional partnerships among Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Legal, Government Relations, Production & Supply, Sustainability, and Global Regulatory teams to align functional priorities and deliver business objectives.
• Develop and execute advocacy strategies to shape external regulatory policy and industry positions; represent the company in trade associations, technical working groups, and industry forums advancing science-based, practical regulatory outcomes.
• Oversee regulatory governance, resource/budget planning and management, and performance tracking to ensure high-quality and timely execution, prioritization, and operational efficiency across the function.
• Accountable for regulatory governance of Crop Protection products, ensuring compliant, timely and consistent decisions across the product lifecycle, with clear ownership, risk management and stakeholder alignment.
• Anticipate and respond to emerging regulatory trends affecting the company, including development related to registration, labeling, and compliance expectations under all pertinent laws and regulations, as well as our sustainability commitments.
• Build forward-looking organizational capabilities through coaching, talent & succession planning, and leadership development; create a high-performing culture grounded in collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Actively participate at Business Process Review (Regulatory) monthly and Worldwide Regulatory LT quarterly contributing for the success of the function.
• Leads digital, data and AI initiatives to deliver measurable business value, building capable teams and driving responsible adoption at pace.

• Minimum education: Degree in Science and preferably post-graduate qualification (MSc, PhD, MBA).
• Extensive experience, including leadership responsibilities, in Crop Protection regulatory affairs, regulatory sciences.
• Proven track record of working effectively in senior cross-functional teams
• At least 10 years’ experience in crop protection R&D, and significant expertise in Regulatory or Product Safety, or other relevant business area.
• Significant people management and development experience.
• Good understanding of operations in other functions (e.g. legal, production and supply, finance, marketing, etc.).
• Proven ability to deal with the most complex regulatory issues, and develop effective strategies and options for managing them
• Evidence of having developed innovative regulatory strategies.

• An inspiring leader who builds and leads the most effective teams.
• Be organized and able to prioritize among the day to day issues.
• Proactive in identifying issues, and developing and implementing creative strategies for addressing them.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex teams and building high-performing organizations through talent development, coaching, and succession planning.
• Strong strategic leadership capability, with the ability to translate external regulatory developments into clear business implications, priorities, and action plans.
• Exceptional ability to influence senior internal stakeholders and build strong networks and advocate with regulatory agencies, industry groups and other external stakeholders through credibility, sound judgment, and science-based advocacy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex regulatory issues clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven track record of managing complexity, making risk-based decisions, and delivering results in a highly regulated and fast-changing environment.
• High degree of integrity, resilience, and sound judgment, with the ability to lead through ambiguity and balance business needs, compliance obligations, and stewardship commitments.