Syngenta Looking for Business Analyst BI, APAC IT at India Full Time

• You will facilitate discussion between commercial business unit stakeholders and various digital/IT functions units to agree on a common outcome to accelerate digitization across Syngenta. You will be working across teams understanding different business objectives and identifying opportunities for digital transformation.
• You will work closely with management and business units in the design of digital transformation projects. This includes leveraging technology and data to transform business processes and developing, integrating and optimising new applications. You will be the connection between the digital/IT teams and the commercial business units.
• You will work with or lead cross-functional team to realise this vision. You will provide project leadership and execution support to build world class digital enablement capabilities across the organisation. You will enjoy rolling up your sleeves to lead hands-on user story writing, implementation, test case review, testing and iteration of digital initiatives.
• You have a deep curiosity and passion to solve business challenges with facts and data. You are resilient and have a drive to seize opportunities

Accountabilities

• Owns project goals leveraging expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team
• Business Partner with country Digital & IT Leads and business in countries and APAC region to define the platforms strategy, adoption and evolution of platforms with focus on customer value. Translate strategy into tangible milestones and deliverables.
• Organizes new challenges and drive business results
• Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports
• Wireframing and prototyping, agile expertise, customer journey and user story design, advocating and designing a user-centred and consumer focused processes, mapping out customer flows and wireframes.
• Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all project stakeholders
• Continuously develop and deliver bold and innovative solutions that differentiates Syngenta
• Develop and sustain long-term, trust-based relationships with stakeholders
• Communicates strategic direction effectively, to excite people around the vision and goals and align diverse teams to achieve success
• Lead behavioural and cultural change through a supportive, collaborative and highly inclusive environment where team members feel supported, respected and engaged
• Initiate a cultural transformation educating the organization to consider digital solutions for every business challenge/opportunity
• Understand the customer journey to be able to come up with creative solutions
• Create a continuous learning environment where the countries are constantly supported with up-to-date information
• Build a culture of continuous improvement by creating a feedback-based model and adapting approaches
• Connection with country teams to maintain understanding of the local environment and stay attached to the evolving situation
• Consolidate country situations and best practices to be translated and adapted to the different realities in APAC
• Ensure regional Digital/ IT support and alignment for the countries’ direction and priorities
• Ensure adoption of the digital tools through a value and outcomes driven implementation
• Create a connection between the gaps and problems with the solution we are trying to find
• Define upfront the commercial outcome of each initiatives and establish KPIs to measure success and monitor progress
• Work with the countries to identify the most effective use cases and take responsibility for their implementation and potential application to other countries in the region
• Manages accountability with vendors when the solutions are developed or managed by third party vendors.
• Adopt aggressive prioritization

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

Critical knowledge

• Proven skills and experience leading the implementation of IT and business transformation
• Hands on experience in leading business digital transformation projects
• Business partnering between IT and commercial teams to become the face of business to IT for their emerging IT and digital requirements. Experience required in handling commercial IT platforms like mobile applications, SAP, Salesforce etc.

Critical experience

• 5+ years hybrid experience in commercial processes and digital platforms
• Demonstrated experience to work across functional boundaries
• Working with management of the local, regional, and global business organization.
• Successful handling of conflicting pressures from different stakeholders.
• Work in an international and multidisciplinary team environment

Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities

• Proficiency in results-focused leadership and business partnering
• Ability to manage large commercial business transformation projects
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Good understanding of business and development processes

Critical leadership capabilities

o Gains commitment of individuals and stakeholders in a compelling way

• Leads change and effective in managing ambiguity

o Uses effective strategies to facilitate organisational change initiatives and overcome resistance

• Builds a culture of innovation

o Creates an environment that supports creativity and coach people to spark innovation

o Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers

o Skilfully plans, organizes and monitors performance to create value and achieve excellence in delivery

• Collaborates across boundaries

o Collaborates effectively across organizational and functional boundaries, and leverages diversity

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Improve commercial processes and effectiveness by providing effective IT solutions
• Work closely with technical experts for end-to-end delivery ownership
• Ensure effective stakeholder management at country, region and global level
• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field (business, science, engineering, IT) or equivalent knowledge is required.