General

• Lead UPL's global late-stage discovery, early-development, and portfolio decisions for insecticides and herbicides
• Translate business, grower, resistance-management, and portfolio needs into an entomology and weed science roadmap
• Define evidence requirements and recommend advance, refine, partner, or stop decisions
• Provide technical leadership across conventional chemistry, biologicals, combinations, formulations, seed treatments, and enabling technologies
• Build, govern, validate, standardize, and continuously improve screening platforms from laboratory through field
• Ensure studies are biologically relevant, reproducible, statistically sound, and transferable across sites and partners
• Establish quality, stewardship, biosafety, permit, recordkeeping, and data-integrity expectations
• Coach and develop scientists and technical staff and build succession and cross-training
• Allocate resources against portfolio priorities while balancing speed, quality, and cost
• Build networks with regional development teams, universities, CROs, technology partners, and professional societies
• Lead evaluation and validation of external technologies and partnerships
• Synthesize datasets into technical positions, risk assessments, and recommendations for R&D, Category, Portfolio, Regulatory, IP, Formulation, Manufacturing, and Commercial stakeholders
• Define agronomic value propositions, technical differentiation, development fit, evidence needs, and uncertainties
• Initiate experiments to reduce technical and field-translation uncertainty

Global Research Lead – Entomology, Weed Science

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead the finance function across the Central & Eastern Europe sub-region while maintaining full financial ownership and statutory accountability for Poland
• Act as senior finance leader for the CEE sub-region and strategic business partner to regional and country leadership teams
• Own and monitor Revenue, Gross Margin, EBITDA, SG&A, Working Capital and Free Cash Flow performance
• Support market expansion, portfolio optimization, pricing decisions, investment evaluations and business transformation projects
• Lead monthly, quarterly and annual business performance reviews
• Lead annual business planning, budgeting and forecasting across the sub-region
• Develop financial models, scenario analyses, management reporting and actionable recommendations
• Drive cash generation, working capital improvements, receivables collections, inventory management and credit management
• Maintain responsibility for Poland finance, accounting, controlling, financial close, general ledger, payables, receivables, fixed assets, inventory and statutory reporting
• Ensure compliance with Group Accounting Policies, IFRS, local accounting regulations, tax, regulatory and corporate governance requirements
• Lead internal and external audits and maintain internal control frameworks
• Oversee corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing, statutory reports and tax submissions
• Lead and develop finance resources across the sub-region and Poland
• Drive finance process standardization, automation, simplification, transformation and reporting improvements

Finance Manager – Sub-regional Finance Lead, CEE

Chemist

• Work from UPL’s Global Research facility located in RTP, NC
• Work with UPL’s seed and soil health team in North America to verify and validate seed treatment formulation performance in custom blends and mixtures
• Evaluate custom blends for crops including soybean, corn, sorghum, cotton, peanut, rice and wheat, and conduct stability studies
• Treat seed, certify seed treatment samples and custom blends before shipping to distributors and seed companies
• Maintain records of shipping details for custom blends, experimental samples and commercial samples
• Conduct seed treatment performance tests and shelf-life studies of treated seeds
• Develop and validate methods to analyze seed-treatment formulations using HPLC, GC and particle analyzer
• Apply knowledge of polymers, pigments and inoculants in seed-treatment formulations and conduct bioassays to demonstrate efficacy
• Write protocols and reports, document results in laboratory notebooks and present scientific findings in cross-functional project-team meetings
• Support the Technical Lab Lead in maintaining the North America seed-treatment lab, lab instruments, seed and soil-health initiatives, SOPs and safety standards, and provide greenhouse assistance
• Collaborate with the India seed-treatment lab, Global Seed Treatment team and US New Ag Tech team to analyze and validate formulations and support research and development needs

Global Research Lead – Entomology, Weed Science

Finance Manager – Sub-regional Finance Lead, CEE

Formulation Chemist