Business Analyst

Company Description

At Syngenta Vegetables and Flowers, we're cultivating tomorrow's diversity through innovative breeding that brings vibrant colors to gardens and nutritious vegetables to tables worldwide. We combine centuries of seed heritage with cutting-edge innovation to develop resilient, high-performing varieties that thrive in diverse climates. Join us in shaping the future of sustainable horticulture, where every seed holds the potential to enhance lives through better nutrition and natural beauty.

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 Analytics & Data Sciences Team is seeking a Business Analyst. Syngenta is building the next generation of digital tools that transform how seeds are developed, tested, and brought to market globally. As a Business Analyst, you will sit at the center of that work — translating complex scientific and business needs into digital solutions that reach farmers worldwide.

This role is expected to independently lead analysis efforts, working across business, product, and technical teams to drive clarity, alignment, and progress in a fast-moving, multi-stakeholder environment.

Accountabilities:

Requirements & Backlog Ownership

• Own end-to-end requirements capture, refinement, and backlog management for assigned areas.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications.
• Ensure requirements are complete, testable, and aligned to product and technical constraints.
• Maintain strong traceability from requirements → development → testing → release.

Workflow & Process Design

• Lead workflow and process design across complex, cross-functional use cases.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and risks in proposed workflows and drive alignment to resolution.
• Work across stakeholders to standardize and simplify processes where possible.
• Ensure workflows are scalable across crops, regions, and user groups.

UAT & User Readiness

• Define and support execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ensure business requirements are fully validated prior to release.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure clarity, confidence, and readiness for system adoption.
• Identify readiness gaps and escalate risks that may impact rollout timelines.

Stakeholder Leadership & Coordination

• Act as the primary point of contact for analysis within the assigned scope.
• Lead discussions with SMEs, product, and technical teams to drive decisions and alignment.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, surface trade-off