Global Head of Product Management

Syngenta Group•Chicago, IL

15h

About The Position

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. The Global Head of Product Management is responsible for elevating product management excellence across the IT & Digital organization. This role serves as the global owner of product management standards, frameworks, and capability building, ensuring consistent, high-quality product practices aligned to enterprise strategy. The role operates as a center of excellence, driving transformation from project-centric delivery to outcome-driven product teams across regions and business units.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
Strong knowledge of modern product management practices, including discovery, agile, road mapping, customer research, etc.
Minimum 8+ years of product management experience, including leadership of complex products or portfolios in global or cross-regional environments.
Demonstrated success leading complex products or portfolios.
Experience working in a matrixed, global organization.
Product leadership and strategic thinking
Coaching and talent development
Influence without authority
Cross-cultural communication
Change management and organizational enablement
Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

Establish the “Product Model” as the operating system
Define and socialize what changes (and what doesn’t): durable product teams, persistent ownership, outcomes over outputs, continuous discovery + delivery.
Translate the model into clear expectations for how funding, planning, prioritization, and accountability work.
Lead the change management as a multi-year transformation
Treat this as an org redesign: comms, enablement, stakeholder re-contracting, capability building, and reinforcement mechanisms.
Start with lighthouse teams, prove value, scale patterns, and continuously remove structural blockers
Create empowered product teams with real problems to solve
Redesign team structures around products/capabilities (not projects), with stable cross-functional squads (Product, Design, Engineering, Data where applicable).
Clarify decision rights: teams own solutions; leadership owns strategy, constraints, and outcomes.
Shift strategy from “roadmaps & projects” to “outcomes & product strategy”
Replace project plans and feature roadmaps with an outcome-based strategy: target customers, problems, measurable outcomes, and strategic bets.
Implement a strategy cadence where teams continuously connect discovery work to business objectives.
Institutionalize continuous product discovery
Make discovery a non-negotiable: teams validate value, usability, feasibility, and viability before scaling delivery.
Build discovery competence (coaching, patterns, toolkits) and remove org blockers (access to users, data, experimentation paths).
Standardize product practices without creating bureaucracy
Provide lightweight standards (product principles, discovery expectations, strategy artifacts, outcome reporting) that enable autonomy rather than constrain it.
Create a “minimum effective process” that scales globally and supports consistency.
Create transparency through meaningful product metrics
Establish a small set of product health indicators (outcome metrics, adoption/engagement, customer satisfaction, reliability/quality, time-to-value).
Run regular product reviews/health checks to spot stalled products, weak discovery, or over-commitment early—and intervene.

Benefits

A culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration, promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members.
Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.

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