Company Description

Syngenta Crop Protection is a leader in agricultural innovation, bringing breakthrough technologies and solutions that enable farmers to grow productively and sustainably. We offer a leading portfolio of crop protection solutions for plant and soil health, as well as digital solutions that transform the decision-making capabilities of farmers. Our 17,900 employees serve to advance agriculture in more than 90 countries around the world. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, and is part of the Syngenta Group.

Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture!

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Scientist to join our Global Predictive Science Team! Within this role you will be working within Global Product Biology and across R&D functions to bring new insights for active ingredient development by developing predictive models, while guiding design, optimization and development of novel crop protection solution. Responsibilities will include:

• Developing predictive models using historical data.
• Identifying modeling opportunities, while understanding scientific problems to drive business value.
• Driving strategic business initiatives across Crop Protection R&D working with physical chemistry, biokinetic, formulation, marketing and environmental data to support decision taking and model laboratory, glasshouse and field experiments.
• Guiding scientists in designing experiments for modeling purposes.
• Working with R&D IT and software developers to build data connections and deploy customer facing applications.
• Monitoring and exploring new developments, analytical tools, methodologies or approaches.
• Engaging with high-priority digital transformation projects to understand opportunities to accelerate the impact of data science for predictive field trialing.

Qualifications

• Strong academic foundation in data science (with focus on machine learning) and predictive modelling to postgraduate level or natural science PhD (ecology, env. science, biology or chemistry).
• Knowledge of relevant data-science, analytics and modelling tooling (Python, Matlab etc.), model validation, uncertainty, sensitivity analysis etc.
• Scientific domain knowledge in relevant field such as biology, chemistry, environmental science etc.
• Experience in developing machine-learning models relevant to biological or crop protection outcomes.
• Knowledge of data analysis and extracting data insights, while communicating scientific and data concepts to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Adaptability to different business challenges and data types / sources and to learn and utilize a range of different analytical tools and methodologies.
• Ability to visualize and story-telling with data to communicate results to parties with varying levels of technical proficiency.

Additional Information

Our site

Jealott's Hill International Research Centre UK is situated in pleasant semi-rural surroundings between Bracknell and Maidenhead and is the place of work for approximately 800 Syngenta scientists and support staff. Jealott’s Hill is one of the main global research and development sites and key activities include research into discovery of new active ingredients, new formulation technologies, product safety and technical support of our product range.

Additional locations in Europe within a time zone that is within a two-hour range of CET (Central European Time) and within commutable distance to a Syngenta office can be also considered.

What we offer

• Extensive benefits package.
• Flexible working.
• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
• The chance to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced employees.
• Learning culture and wide range of training options.

Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.

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. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion

Jealott’s Hill has Disability Confident certification.

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates and our Jealott’s Hill site are a Disability Confident Level 2 Employer. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we can to support you.