Head of Internal Communications

• Enterprise Strategy & Narrative Ownership

• Own and shape Syngenta’s Group internal narrative, ensuring employees understand how strategy, performance, transformation, and purpose connect.
• Act as the enterprise integrator of internal messaging, aligning corporate strategy, business priorities, and external market context into a single, coherent story.
• Ensure sustained alignment between internal and external narratives, influencing how the organization interprets and responds to external expectations.
• Enterprise Transformation & Change Leadership

• Provide enterprise-level leadership for communication across major transformation programs, acting as a core member of transformation governance where appropriate.
• Shape communication approaches that accelerate adoption, reinforce accountability, and sustain momentum through complex, multi-year change.
• Anticipate engagement and trust risks during transformation and proactively address them through targeted communication interventions.
• Guide and align with the business on the transformational narratives to clearly cascade the communication into the different geographies.
• COO & GLT Advisory

• Serve as a senior, trusted advisor to the COO and GLT on internal communication, engagement, and leadership visibility.
• Shape COO and GLT messaging for enterprise-critical moments, including strategy shifts, performance discussions, and periods of uncertainty or disruption.
• Influence leadership behaviour and communication effectiveness at the top of the organization.
• Listed Company, Governance & Market Sensitivity

• Own the internal communication framework for market-sensitive topics, ensuring disciplined alignment with disclosure, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner closely with Investor Relations, Finance, Legal, and Corporate Affairs to manage internal communication around results, strategy, and capital markets events.
• Protect the organization’s credibility by ensuring internal communication supports trust, compliance, and responsible information flow.
• Enterprise Engagement, Culture & Leadership Communication

• Shape enterprise-wide approaches to employee engagement, leadership communication, and listening.
• Use insight and data to influence enterprise decisions on engagement, leadership effectiveness, and culture.
• Actively reinforce Syngenta’s purpose, values, and leadership expectations through consistent, authentic enterprise storytelling.

• Enterprise Leadership & Judgment: Operates as a peer to senior enterprise leaders, with sound judgment in high-stakes, high-visibility situations.
• Strategic Narrative Shaping: Ability to craft and sustain an enterprise narrative that drives alignment, trust, and execution.
• Transformation Authority: Recognized authority in leading communication for large-scale, enterprise transformation.
• Executive Influence: High-impact advisor to CEO, COO and GLT, able to challenge, shape, and elevate leadership communication.
• Systems Thinking: Sees across the enterprise, connecting strategy, culture, performance, and external context.
• Resilience & Composure: Operates effectively under pressure, scrutiny, and ambiguity.

• Extensive experience leading internal communication at enterprise level within large, complex, global organizations.
• Proven track record of shaping enterprise-wide transformation and change, not just supporting it.
• Senior experience in listed company environments with deep understanding of governance, disclosure, and capital markets sensitivities.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with credibility engaging at CEO, COO and GLT level.
• Experience leading senior teams and influencing across highly matrixed organizations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; additional languages an advantage.

• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment
• The opportunity to make a difference to process safety, both within Syngenta’s global operations, and in shaping safety legislation and culture worldwide
• A superb working environment with an open culture and diverse workforce where new ideas are always welcome
• The opportunity to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced employees and gain scientific and technical excellence
• Learning culture (Together we Grow) and wide range of training options
• You will profit from a competitive pension fund plan, flexible working, attractive bonus system, onsite doctor, fitness room, canteen, and other benefits (Family friendly initiatives, Child and Family allowance…)

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