Human Safety Technical Quality Manager

Syngenta Group; Basel; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Flexible working

Job summary

Syngenta Crop Protection in Europe is seeking a Human Safety Technical Quality Manager to provide technical leadership across internal experts, CROs and regulatory projects, ensuring submissions are scientifically robust and regulatory-ready.

You will shape technical strategy for EU plant-protection regulations, oversee dossier scope and authority responses, and drive continuous improvement across the end-to-end EU submission process in a collaborative, international environment.

Qualifications

• Deep Human Safety expertise and strong knowledge of EU plant-protection product regulation.
• Proven experience delivering complex EU dossiers, submissions and authority responses.
• Experience providing technical quality oversight for CRO or outsourced work.
• Ability to turn complex scientific and regulatory issues into pragmatic recommendations.
• Strong planning, judgement and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Human Safety technical interface between internal experts, CROs and project teams.
• Define technical strategy, dossier scope, regulatory positioning and authority-response plans.
• Review and challenge CRO deliverables, ensuring quality from initiation through submission and post-submission support.
• Establish robust handovers, governance, decision records, risk escalation and continuous-improvement actions.
• Strengthen CRO capability through onboarding, training, practical guidance and feedback.
• Advise portfolio teams on feasibility, complexity, resourcing, milestones and delivery dependencies.

Skills

EU regulations

Human Safety expertise

Stakeholder management

Dossier submissions

Fluent English

Regulatory strategy

Job description

Syngenta Crop Protection is a leader in agricultural innovation, bringing breakthrough technologies and solutions that enable farmers to grow productively and sustainably. We offer a leading portfolio of Crop Protection solutions for plant and soil health, as well as digital solutions that transform the decision-making capabilities of farmers. Our 17,900 employees serve to advance agriculture in more than 90 countries around the world. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and is part of the Syngenta Group.

Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.

Join a pivotal, evolving team that is redefining how EU product authorisations are delivered. As the Human Safety Technical Quality Manager, you will provide the technical leadership that connects Human Safety experts, external CRO partners and regulatory projects-ensuring every submission is scientifically robust, strategically positioned and ready to meet regulatory expectations.

This is an opportunity to help shape an evolving business model and future ways of working. You will bring creativity to new approaches, build an extensive network across EU submission functions and work with a wide range of stakeholders. Drawing on emerging knowledge and practices from Product Safety and Regulatory, you will integrate these into Alliance projects and improve how work is delivered. The role offers broad exposure to the full EU end-to-end submission process, alongside hands-on involvement in key areas.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Human Safety technical interface between internal experts, CROs and project teams.
• Define technical strategy, dossier scope, regulatory positioning and authority-response plans.
• Review and challenge CRO deliverables, ensuring quality from initiation through submission and post-submission support.
• Establish robust handovers, governance, decision records, risk escalation and continuous-improvement actions.
• Strengthen CRO capability through onboarding, training, practical guidance and feedback.
• Advise portfolio teams on feasibility, complexity, resourcing, milestones and delivery dependencies.

What we are looking for

• Deep Human Safety expertise and strong knowledge of EU plant-protection product regulation.
• Proven experience delivering complex EU dossiers, submissions and authority responses.
• Experience providing technical quality oversight for CRO or outsourced work.
• Ability to turn complex scientific and regulatory issues into pragmatic recommendations.
• Strong planning, judgement and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent English.

Our site

We could consider candidates based at locations within Europe.

What we offer

• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance (depends on the contracting country).
• Flexible working.
• A position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
• The opportunity to develop and apply your science within the chemical industry.
• The chance to work as part of a global team to address the current and future needs of the agricultural sector.
• Learning culture and wide range of training options.

Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Magazine for the 8th consecutive year.

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. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion