AME Stewardship Leader

Your Challenge

• Set CU Stewardship priorities with the CU Leader and Country leaders resulting in CU and Country Stewardship plans for CP and Seeds/Biotech business with actions that are tracked;
• Participate in zonal program and portfolio meetings to provide stewardship support for assigned regional portfolio;
• Lead Country Stewardship Audits supporting continuous improvement on stewardship processes;
• Lead Stewardship Considerations, Characterizations and Risk Assessments of portfolio and implementation of product stewardship plans linked to launching new products or supporting existing products;
• Oversee GMO Trait Stewardship Programs in RSA with potential expansion to other countries;
• Find opportunities for and manage Stewardship training programs internally and externally and serve as an expert on Stewardship matters;
• Promote Stewardship Best Practices in the countries including IRM, WRM and IPM;
• Support countries complying with internal stewardship standards and stewardship clauses in agreements with suppliers/licensers;
• Support countries complying with legal stewardship requirements like adverse effects reporting or risk mitigation measures for products;
• Help countries supporting their customers in stewardship efforts and reward for local customers;
• Ensure countries implement proper incident management processes including emergency response and complaints management, in liaison with EHS & S;
• Support where needed country teams during new label creation, and during label revisions in order to ensure required by law and good agriculture practices recommendation are well listed;
• Provide advise/support in counterfeit investigations/programs.

Location: Location for the AME Stewardship Leader is in the business office of one of the key countries in Middle East & North Africa (MENA, Cairo or Casablanca), West-East & South-Central Africa (WESCA, Nairobi) or Southern Africa (Centurion, SA).

Qualifications

To Grow What Matters, You Will Need:

• Agriculture or Biology University Degree;
• Preferably 5 years of experience in Crop Protection and/or Seed;
• Fluent in English;
• Self starter;
• Good organizational and computer skills;
• Flexible to Travel;
• Negotiation Skills;
• Attention to detail.

Who Are We Looking For?

• Curious, bold thinkers who want to grow their careers and be part of a winning team;
• Market shaping individuals who want to transform the agriculture industry to meet the world’s growing need for food;
• Collaborators who thrive in a diverse, inclusive work environment;
• Innovators who bring initiative and fresh ideas that drive our business into the future and make us an industry leader.