Operations Specialist

Syngenta Crop Protection; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural company in Bracknell, UK, is seeking a professional to manage the business side of outsourcing Product Safety studies. The role demands skills in customer service, digital tools, and quality management. Qualifications include a Bachelor’s Degree and proficiency in enterprise systems. Employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including a pension scheme and up to 31.5 days of holiday. Join a top employer within the agricultural sector to enhance your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous Pension Scheme

Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Up to 31.5 days annual holiday

Wide range of training options

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Experience with enterprise systems like SAP and Salesforce Procure.
• Proficiency in digital conferencing tools like Zoom or MS Teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage outsourcing Product Safety studies with Contract Research Organizations.
• Support updating external resources in the global planning system.
• Collaborate with procurement on laboratory service contracts.

Skills

Microsoft Office skills

Proficient in enterprise systems

Customer focused mindset

Quality management

Experience with digital conferencing tools

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

SAP

Salesforce Procure

Power BI

Microsoft Power Automate

Zoom

MS Teams

Smartsheet

Job description

Job Description

We all have a critical role to play and add value. Here is how the role can help :

• Responsible for business side of outsourcing Product Safety studies with Contract Research Organizations including gathering and reviewing supporting documents for contracts, ensuring appropriate contract and invoice approvals, generating purchase order (“PO”) and letter of authorization, recording PO and invoice payments in global tracking system.
• Provides support updating external resources and staff days in the global Smart Choice planning system.
• Works closely with procurement to initiate and renew laboratory service contracts and purchase orders. Approves payment of invoices for service contracts.
• Works closely with Procure to Pay Service Delivery analyst, Procurement and with Legal department on procedures and issues concerning purchase orders, invoice management, vendor master data, and contractual agreements with 3rd party vendors.
• Ensures internal financial recordkeeping procedures are consistent with best practices.
• Serves Product Safety technical staff as in house reference source for procedures and compliance with best practices accounting and CRO contracting procedures and processes, invoice management system and troubleshooting.
• Provides guidance and troubleshooting to contract research organization staff on generation and tracking of Product Safety contractual documents, purchase orders, invoices and payments.
• Provides KPI data for reports.
• Support the collation and analysis of request for capital expenditure.

Qualifications

At Syngenta we are highly people focused – we look for professionals who are engaged, collaborative and excellent in execution. Leaders are expected to communicate effectively, develop teams and lead by example. Our industry and our function are changing rapidly so we are looking for new team members with a strong desire to develop themselves.

You will be a great fit if you have :

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Proficient in Microsoft office skills including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficient in enterprise systems : such as SAP, Salesforce Procure, Smart Choice Connect or similar.
• Experience with the use of digital conferencing tools such as Zoom or MS Teams.
• Preferred experience with Power BI and LLMs such as Co-pilot, Chat GPT, Gemini
• Preferred experience with automated workflows including but not limited to Microsoft Power Automate and Smartsheet.
• Proven experience of delivery to time and quality
• Customer focused mindset
• Quality management / continuous improvement experience

Additional Information

What we offer

• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance
• Up to 31.5 days annual holiday
• Learning culture and wide range of training options
• Good onsite facilities

Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.