Syngenta Group: Product Trialing Manager — Pune, MAHĀRĀSHTRA, India

About Syngenta Group

Syngenta Group works in agricultural technology and crop-related innovation. Its employer descriptions connect scientific development and crop solutions with helping farmers use resources effectively and improve how crops are grown. Material from its vegetables-and-flowers business also identifies seed breeding for different climates and horticultural needs. Across these activities, the stated business purpose links agricultural production with resource use and environmental concerns, bringing scientific and technological work to practical farming and growing conditions.

The position and its setting

Syngenta Group lists Product Trialing Manager in Pune, MAHĀRĀSHTRA, India, under reference 18076743. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Commercial
• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 12 October 2026
• Brands: Syngenta Seeds

Responsibilities and work described

• Role purpose
• Leadership: the planning, execution and delivery of vegetable-seed trials (includes PLC 6.1, agronomy trials, satellite demos, demo day fields) across India to generate robust, high-quality data that supports product advancement, positioning and successful commercial launch
• The role connects breeding, product specialists, agronomy and commercial teams, ensuring trials reflect diverse Indian growing environments and customer needs
• Development: and execute annual trialing plans for assigned vegetable crops, including varietal evaluation, product placement and agronomic practices
• Identify and manage trial locations across key agro-climatic zones, ensuring representative testing for season, disease pressure, soil type and grower practice
• Leadership: trial protocol development & execution, plot design, data standards and timely execution through internal teams, external partners and contract growers
• Quality / delivery: accurate collection, validation and analysis of trial data covering yield, quality, maturity, disease tolerance, plant habit, shelf life and marketable traits as per the product profile
• Effective use of the internal tools like Ez Capture
• Translate trial results into clear recommendations on advancement, positioning, target geographies and product claims
• Work: closely with Product specialist, Breeding & TPP teams to support pipeline decisions and hybrid advancement with trial execution, PAT execution, data collection and data consolidation for proposal to the product meetings
• Partner with commercial, Product specialist, customer experience teams to establish satellite demo & demo days field demonstrations and build compelling evidence for launches and demand generation activities around CPIs with CX and Commercial team
• Management: trialing budgets, seasonal resource plans, vendors and compliance requirements
• Lead, coach and develop the trialing team, setting clear objectives, managing performance, building technical and operational capability, and ensuring effective deployment of people and resources across trial locations and seasons
• Quality / delivery: adherence to company stewardship, safety, quality, phytosanitary and data-integrity standards
• Support: to the commercial team for the mass scale customer complaints validation and RCA process

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Master’s degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Plant Breeding, Agronomy or a related discipline
• Around 15 years of relevant experience in vegetable-seed trialing, product development, agronomy or field trial management
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-location trials in India, preferably across multiple vegetable crops and seasons
• Understanding: vegetable production systems, crop agronomy, hybrid evaluation and market requirements
• Experience: experimental design, statistical analysis and digital trial-data systems
• Ability to lead field teams and external partners across geographically dispersed locations
• Willingness to travel extensively within India during key trialing periods
• Key competencies
• Scientific and agronomic judgement
• Rigorous data quality and attention to detail
• Planning and execution discipline
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Commercial awareness and customer orientation
• People leadership and capability building
• Clear, evidence-based communication
• Success measures
• Timely completion and quality of planned trials
• Reliable, decision-ready data for pipeline and launch decisions
• Effective product recommendations by crop and region
• Trial budget and resource efficiency

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Fluency: English; working proficiency in Hindi and/or regional languages is preferred

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: On-site
• Advertised location: Pune, MAHĀRĀSHTRA, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Syngenta Group

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Relevant skills

• compliance
• agronomy
• claims administration
• agriculture
• stakeholder management
• communication