Data Management Specialist

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 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

Qualifications

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

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