Regulatory Manager

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

• Achieve, extend and maintain license to operate (registrations) for Syngenta products in areas of responsibility within agreed timelines, under the supervision of the Regulatory Lead.
• Provide regulatory expertise and foresight to the business, coordinated by the Regulatory Lead.
• Plan and execute regulatory activities in areas of responsibility and find innovative registration approaches within the legal regulatory framework.
• Secure Syngenta’s competitive edge through top quality submissions and handling registration issues in an ethical, trustworthy way in cooperation with country authorities.

• Manage the registration activities for countries in the business area, as defined by the Regulatory Lead. This includes the preparation of registration submissions; answering requests from authorities; covering regulatory aspects of product labelling and formulation/source changes; keeping Syngenta internal registration databases up to date.
• Plan, achieve, maintain and defend approvals / registrations (for new registrations, reregistration, label extensions and formulation changes) of Syngenta Portfolio in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana to the appropriate approval authority. Aiming to meet business objectives within agreed timelines and in compliance with local statutory requirements.
• Provide regulatory expertise and foresight to the business. Keep regulatory and business informed on regulatory changes and emerging issues which require proactive management.
• Jointly develop and implement, with the Regulatory Lead, a robust freedom to operate (FtO) approach across countries in the business area, aligned to Global strategy incl. stewardship & safe use.
• Provide to the Regulatory Lead annual plans, timelines and budget needs for all registration activities in-line with portfolio strategy/priorities. Track, review and report registration progress against targets.
• Establish a network with regulatory authorities, to represent company interests. Maintain close contact with local partners and stakeholders in order to grow and maintain expertise of national registration processes and legislations.
• Proactively manage product related issues.
• Support supply chain and other internal stakeholders on regulatory matters (shelf-life extensions, country of origin issues, review of inspection certificates, etc.).
• Accountable for regulatory compliance within the allocated countries, including liaison with external stakeholders on regulatory compliance matters/enquiries.
• Develop, drive and implement effective processes and SOPs to ensure regulatory compliance in accordance with local legislation throughout the product life cycle.
• Support, in case of need, the Regulatory Lead in engagement and participation in the local Industry association.
• Work in partnership with Product Biology counterpart to ensure that regulatory submissions of the highest quality are submitted to the regulatory authorities.

• 5+ years regulatory experience.
• Expert knowledge on PPP legislation and PPP authorization in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana and at EU level.
• Knowledge of the technical disciplines related to PPP registration, toxicology, product residues, environmental fate and ecotoxicology at a general level.
• General understanding of agriculture industry.
• Deliver value adding solutions to the business in countries of responsibility.
• Effective collaboration within the regulatory team and with supported business functions.
• Internal & external networking.
• High attention to detail whilst keeping the overview.
• Capability to provide impact assessment of local and…