Incubation Delivery Lead

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world’s key challenges – resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About the Unit

Yara aims to be the crop nutrition company for the future and is leading the development of sustainable agriculture and digital tools to contribute to solving global agricultural challenges. We have a worldwide presence with sales teams in ~150 countries and around 17,000 employees.

Drawing on over a century of crop nutrition experience, Yara established the Digital Farming unit – now Digital Ag Solutions (DAS) – 4 years ago to explore how technology could be used to impact farmer livelihoods and productivity. Today, DAS has built products for smallholder and professional farmers, retailers and other farming ecosystem stakeholders across Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe.

We are an international team of engineers, scientists, researchers, designers and agronomists working together to achieve Yara’s goal to responsibly feed this world and protect the planet. Join us in building new digital products and services to create value for stakeholders across the agricultural ecosystem.

This position will be located in Germany, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Belgium or Norway (Oslo) and reports to the Digital Ag Solutions Incubation Region Lead Europe.

Responsibilities

• Establish, manage and facilitate the Incubation process, acting as the lead for the team responsible to ensure all country requests go through necessary consolidation and approvals before being submitted to product teams.
• Provide overview and guidance for incubation activities costs and resources needs
• Build standardization amongst tools and processes to streamline and optimize throughout the incubation pipeline. Looks to continuously improve and harmonize the approach for Europe.
• Identify and manage cross-team interdependencies; facilitate cross-functional alignment to drive progress against goals and objectives, establish clear next steps and owners, and resolve blockers that impede progress.
• Introduce an agile working model in the Incubation team to support process management and goals.
• Outcome and Metrics Tracking/Reporting: Work closely with initiative owners across the organization to develop goals, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for ongoing value tracking.
• Develop systems for managing performance against those goals; ensure that our key efforts and initiatives are aligned to our strategic priorities.
• Works closely with other delivery leads for tracking, reporting and cross-functional alignment.
• Facilitation of regional key showcases / show & tell sessions across portfolio. Provides structure and tools to visualize European and market specific roadmaps

Profile

• Managed multiple projects/Agile teams at once at various stages
• Possesses comprehensive understanding of business case creation, evaluation and solidification, Agile practices.
• Experience in early-stage product development is a strength
• Exhibits knowledge and skillset of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, decentralized decision making and increasing transparency in teams.
• Exceptional communication, multi-tasking, problem solving and interpersonal skills. Humble, collaborative, team player, willing to step up and support colleagues.
• Experience using Microsoft and Atlassian software suites
• Strong business mind and drive to deliver results.

Why us?

• Evolving tech development division of an established agricultural products and services company.
• Explore and develop digital, software, hardware products, which provide value to farmers, smallholder communities and the value chain.
• Be part of our mission to build sustainable solutions that benefit humanity and the environment.
• Full-time contract, competitive remuneration + benefits.
• Support for personal development, training and continuous learning.
• Commitment to using new technologies and frameworks, meetups, and knowledge sharing.

Contact details

Padelis Kollias

Talent Acquisition Manager

[email protected]

Knowledge grows through differences

Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassador networks.