Company Description
Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs.
Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions.
Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.
Job Description
At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta's Applied Analytics team is seeking an innovative Data Analyst II to support data collection, management, validation, and integrity across the temperate hub.
You will support data integrity by managing and analyzing agricultural data across multiple crops, tracking adherence to data upload and storage requirements, developing and managing pipeline metrics, and consulting on R&D decisions and strategies to inform stakeholders in Europe and North America.
Accountabilities
- Independently summarize, validate, and manage agricultural data within company databases, ensuring accuracy across domains.
- Work with stakeholders on trialing, genotyping, breeding, and analytics teams to identify areas of improvement for current data strategy/usage, and drive change from prioritization to implementation.
- Develop and track metrics to identify trends that inform R&D decisions and data strategy, and develop visualization tools to effectively communicate these insights.
- Work with agronomists, scientists, and other R&D team members to understand data requests, translate requests to concrete deliverables, and facilitate production implementation.
- Troubleshoot data-related issues, help establish and maintain proper data feedback channels, and suggest innovative solutions to proactively prevent future issues.
- Conduct periodic audits of data systems and processes to ensure compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements, lead training sessions, and provide technical support to field teams on proper data collection protocols and systems usage.
Qualifications
Required:
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must already be located in the United States and not require visa sponsorship now or in the future (includes OPT).
- Master's degree in data science, information technology, statistics, agronomy, or a related field, or a Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of two years of experience in the agriculture sector in a data management or analysis role.
- Strong command of database management software (e.g., SQL, Access), with experience in projects involving writing complex queries, using aggregate functions, JOIN clauses, subqueries, and stored procedures.
- Proficiency in data visualization and reporting tools like Tableau, RShiny, or Power BI, with a proven ability to tell the data's story to an audience. Experience with Streamlit apps is a plus.
- Knowledge of design principles, data modeling, normalization, and creating database objects like tables, views, and indexes.
- Strong understanding of agricultural research practices and principles.
- The capacity to diagnose data issues and consult on effective solutions in a high-stakes, data-driven environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with technical teams and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Desired
- Domain-specific knowledge of data flows and common analyses (e.g., genotype data sample submission and QC) is a plus.
Additional Information
What We Offer:
- A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
- Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
- 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
- Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.
Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI
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.
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