Data Management Specialist

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 CPD Digital Data team is seeking a Data Management Specialist in Centurion, South Africa. This role will be accountable for leading and management of agricultural trial data for crop protection projects, ensuring it is accurate, consistent, and ready for regulatory dossier submission and internal decision-making.

Accountabilities:

Owning data quality & integrity by running data quality checks, leading investigation and resolution of data issues
Ensuring datasets meet agreed quality standards before use in analysis or submission
Consolidating, validating and structuring trial data for it to be analyzed and interpreted (e.g., treatments, protocols, sites, timings, units, and key trial measurements/outcomes) and ensuring consistency across studies and seasons
Maintaining clear links from source data to final outputs and the documentation needed for internal review and regulatory use;
Ensuring assumptions, definitions, and change history are recorded
Leading dossier data package preparation by planning and delivering dossier-ready datasets/tables and supporting documents
Coordinating inputs from stakeholders and driving completeness and consistency through review cycles
Driving standards & continuous improvement by establishing and embedding practical data standards, templates, and ways of working that reduce rework, improve turnaround time, and increase confidence in outputs

Required Qualifications:

Minimum bachelor’s degree in agriculture/agronomy, biological sciences, chemistry, environmental science
Minimum 2 years of experience in trial data analysis in the agricultural or related industry advantageous (field or lab environment)
Solid understanding of core trial concepts (protocols, treatments, trial measurements/outcomes, units, seasonality, variability)
Exposure to regulatory environments and submission expectations (data integrity, traceability, document control) strongly preferrable
Demonstrable experience in ownership of data deliverables, stakeholder coordination, and quality-driven execution

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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