Syngenta recognized in top ten leading biotech employers 2019

Syngenta plays a vital role in the food chain to safely feed the world and take care of our planet. Our ambition is to bring greater food security in an environmentally sustainable way. To do this, we’re working in more than 90 countries with farms of all sizes, providing leading seeds and crop protection innovations to enhance the prosperity of farmers, wherever they are.

To help farmers sustainably feed our growing population, we aim to be the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture, bringing together the best minds to solve the one of the world’s biggest challenges.

We’re proud to be recognized as one of the world’s leading biotech employers – and the top agriculture employer – in the 2019 Science magazine “Top Employers Survey”. The company ranked 10 out of 20 top employers in biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical and related industries.

How our commitment to farmers helps make us a Science magazine Top Employer

With more than 5,000 R&D employees around the world focused on solving the long-term needs of farmers, Syngenta’s dedication to help employees reach their full potential mirrors the company’s commitment to help crops reach their full potential. A robust R&D investment and pipeline enables researchers to develop seed technologies that benefit farmers, consumers and the environment. Through cutting edge innovation, our scientists are helping crops ‘keep up’ with climate change, and improve plant performance so farmers can grow more with less.

Customer-centricity is a core value of Syngenta. Our customers are the farmers, and we strive to get our researchers to know the farmers.

--Gusui Wu, Global Head of Seeds Research

A culture of collaboration to accelerate innovation

One of Syngenta’s greatest strengths is our collaborative culture. Collaboration is essential for delivering on our commitment to accelerate innovation to bring farmers the products and services they need. With centers of innovation for its Seeds business in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, and Beijing, China, and additional labs across the world along with over 40 networks connecting R&D employees across organizational boundaries, we are able to use our global scale, while solving problem for farmers locally.

Syngenta partners with more than 400 R&D universities, research institutes and commercial organizations, all with the common ambition to address the world’s food security challenge.

“Collaboration is critical to innovation, and finding opportunities to collaborate with the best around the world is important for us to deliver the best seed technologies for farmers. This will continue to be a priority for us in the future.”
--Bei Zhang, Head of Beijing Innovation Center, Seeds Research