Seeds Inventory Specialist (EAME)

About the role

Syngenta Seeds is looking for an EAME Seeds Inventory Specialist to report to the EAME Head of Planning. You will manage and control seed inventories across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, optimising stock levels, ensuring product availability and minimising excess stock, obsolescence and storage costs. The role covers all field-crop species, including maize, sunflower, oilseed rape and cereals, and works closely with Production, Logistics, Sales, Supply Chain, Quality, Portfolio and Finance teams.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor inventory levels, movements and performance, produce regular reports and identify improvements.
• Ensure inventories are accurately recorded, characterised and classified across plants and market warehouses.
• Coordinate physical inventory controls so SAP reflects usable and non-usable stock.
• Develop inventory optimisation strategies with Sales, Production and Logistics, and improve the use of excess or short-expiry stock.
• Define and monitor inventory KPIs, including obsolete stock, and manage financial provisions for inventory condition and quality losses.
• Coordinate seed write-offs from approval to physical destruction, chair the Product Variance Request committee and contribute to the Seed Product Specification committee.
• Lead the finished-goods returns process, including traceability and communication to stakeholders.
• Lead EAME inventory-visibility projects and act as the main contact for external auditors, coordinating audit documentation.

Required profile

• Master's degree in logistics, supply chain, inventory management, agronomy or a related field.
• Fluency in English; preferred: knowledge of seed-quality categorisation and the seed industry.
• Preferred: experience with inventory provisions, write-offs, derogations and product returns, and with external inventory audits.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of inventory-management systems and SAP inventory movements.
• Ability to analyse large volumes of data, prepare reports and turn findings into decisions.
• Project-management, analytical and continuous-improvement skills, and stakeholder-management.
• Preferred: data-analysis and visualisation tools such as Power BI.

What we offer

• A permanent Work Level 4B position with no direct reports, with a hybrid arrangement subject to local policy.
• Benefits package tailored to the country of employment, including learning and development, wellness programs and employee assistance programs.
• Occasional travel, about one to two trips per year.