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 Product Biology Team is seeking an Operations Lead in Nampa, ID. This role will provide site leadership for Nampa R&D Seed Operations, ensuring safe, timely, cost-effective, and high-quality delivery of vegetable research trials across open-field, cage, and greenhouse environments.The Operations Lead strengthens operational excellence by developing people, improving and standardizing processes, and enabling cross-functional collaboration across a connected, data-driven R&D Seed Operations network.Accountabilities:Set direction and provide operational leadership for R&D Seed Operations at Nampa, ensuring field, cage, and greenhouse trial activities are resourced, coordinated, and executed in line with safety, quality, timeline, and budget expectations.Translate regional and global R&D Seed Operations strategy into practical site plans, standards, and priorities for Nampa, aligned with breeding program needs and the Americas R&D Operations network.Own the operational delivery of vegetable research trial activities from seed to seed, comprising planning, budgets, labor, equipment, infrastructure, site maintenance, and investment needs, while ensuring demand and capacity are balanced against strategic priorities.Establish, monitor, and report KPIs across all Nampa operations, such as trial performance, safety, quality, cost, labor efficiency, and equipment readiness, to identify performance gaps, guide corrective actions, and drive data-based improvements that increase productivity, reliability, and efficiency.Ensure R&D operations at the Nampa site meet all relevant regulatory, stewardship, phytosanitary, QMS, and HSE requirements.Provide line leadership for the Nampa operations team, comprising coaching, performance management, capability development, succession planning, and oversight of contract labor, to build a safe, engaged, welcoming, collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team.Build trusted stakeholder relationships with breeding, P&S, trialing, maintenance, site leadership, HSE, Finance, and regional R&D Operations teams to align priorities, provide clear operational visibility, proactively address constraints, manage conflicts constructively, and share best practices across the network.Lead and coordinate the resolution of all site-related matters, serving as the primary point of contact for compliance, maintenance, administrative functions, community engagement, and day-to-day operational issues.
