Delivery Lead for Scientific Informatics & R&D IT

Syngenta Group; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful impact

Global collaboration

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Syngenta Group’s Crop Protection division seeks a Programme & Scientific Informatics Delivery Lead to orchestrate strategic, cross-functional digital initiatives across R&D IT, including Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics and Computational Biology.

You will align roadmaps with Product Managers and Technical Leads, drive incremental value, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure delivery excellence across PoD teams in a global context.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex IT delivery initiatives using Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple IT teams across workstreams.
• Understanding of software delivery lifecycle in scientific/R&D environments.
• Experience delivering technology capabilities in data-intensive or complex enterprise settings.
• Knowledge of Bioinformatics/Cheminformatics/Computational Biology is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate delivery of multi-PoD strategic initiatives across teams, products and platforms.
• Develop and maintain delivery roadmaps with Product Managers and Technical Leads.
• Drive prioritised work packages ensuring transparent execution and value delivery.
• Own delivery processes, Agile ceremonies, risk & dependency management.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and vendor issues for timely resolution.
• Provide programme-level status, risks and decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Establish delivery metrics and realisation tracking for business value.
• Manage external vendor relationships and commitments for strategic work.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and transition capabilities into adoption and support.
• Contribute to delivery-community best practices and tooling.
• Oversee budget allocation and resource planning for multi-PoD initiatives.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Programme delivery

Budget management

Vendor management

Communication

English proficiency

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Syngenta Group’s Crop Protection division seeks a Programme & Scientific Informatics Delivery Lead to orchestrate strategic, cross-functional digital initiatives across R&D IT, including Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics and Computational Biology.

You will align roadmaps with Product Managers and Technical Leads, drive incremental value, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure delivery excellence across PoD teams in a global context.