Are you looking for an opportunity to explore, learn and grow your career?
The Syngenta Organic Chemistry and Technologies Graduate Program offers the perfect opportunity to pursue a tailored start to your scientific career in Chemistry within the Crop Protection Research Organization. Your contribution matters in a company that is committed to helping solve some of the world’s most pressing issues, such as the need to produce more food from existing agricultural land and to observing the highest standards of safety and environmental care.
If you are ready to take the first step in your career, we are looking for enthusiastic people like you to join our team at Syngenta.
Key information
Location: Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre, Berkshire, UK
Advertising Dates for our 2026 cohort: September – November 2025
Start Date: September 2026
Salary: Competitive
Duration: 2 years
About the Program
Based at our Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre in Berkshire, the Syngenta Organic Chemistry and Technologies Graduate Program is a two-year program that offers you the opportunity to develop your expertise across a range of chemistry disciplines that will help you take the first step in your career.
Your contributions will help transform the way crops are grown and protected to bring about positive, lasting change in agriculture. Learn from and become part of a highly motivated and collaborative team of scientists dedicated to ensuring our products are safe for the plants they protect, the humans that use them, and for the environment. You will help us on our mission to transform the future of agriculture.
What you can expect?
You will undertake a two-year program where you will complete three different placements across our Research Chemistry and Chemical Technologies departments, ensuring exposure to a breadth of disciplines. The Graduate Program will give you broad experience of the small-molecule discovery process by immersing you in placements across synthetic, automation, physical and analytical chemistry.
In a synthetic organic chemistry placement, you can expect to learn how to synthesise and characterise novel compounds using modern techniques. You will be part of a team with digital chemistry at its core.
Within automation chemistry you will learn how to operate state-of-the-art equipment for the synthesis of compound libraries and see how our automation and synthetic chemistry teams work closely to deliver molecules efficiently.
Within physical and analytical chemistry, you may run or develop assays to understand the effect of molecular physical properties in support of our chemical design teams, or you may learn about chromatography and the importance of separation science in the discovery of novel crop protection compounds.
Our Graduate Program will support the development of a data-driven mindset, exposing you to our suites of industry-leading software to support chemical synthesis. You will have responsibility on real projects from the outset, alongside mentoring in technical and professional skills from experts.
Maximise your career potential
We believe in growing talent from the inside, and provide a setting where enthusiastic workers can demonstrate their full potential.
By joining our team, your talents will be leveraged on complex projects to accelerate your learning and develop your leadership potential. This program is designed to grow your existing unique skills while enabling you to develop new proficiencies.
Successful completion of the program will equip you will the skills and competencies required to support your career progression.
Jealotts Hill
Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre is our UK research and development site. It is our largest R&D site in the world, and the only site with end-to-end R&D capabilities.
With a long tradition of innovation and employing over 800 people, Jealott’s Hill collaborates with other Syngenta sites and external research bodies around the world, delivering across all major research areas, from Crop Protection Discovery, Biologicals Research, Weed Control Research, Seeds Research, Bioperformance Enhancement and Product Safety Research. Its multidisciplinary scientific expertise includes Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Engineering, Data Sciences and Modelling and Human and Environmental Sciences. These factors make Jealott’s Hill a dynamic and exciting place to work.
Essential Requirements
What we’re looking for:
- Graduates in Chemistry (BSc or MSc) or a related discipline
with a minimum of a 2:1 gained in 2025, or, anticipated to
complete their degree with a 2:1 before September 2026. - Curious, motivated and growth-oriented scientists with a
passion for laboratory-based chemistry - A keen interest in conducting and analysing experiments with
a commitment to delivering high quality experimental data - Strong analytical competency with ability to interpret data,
solve problems and draw evidence-based conclusions - Excellent written and verbal communication and good digital
literacy skills - Proficient digital literacy for modern laboratory and data
management systems - Ability to work as a part of a collaborative team that focuses on
delivery of the next generation of crop protection products
The recruitment process
The recruitment period will begin in September 2025 for the scheme starting in September 2026.
Applications will close in November 2025.
First-round video interviews will take place between October 2025 and January 2026.
An on-site assessment centre will be held in February 2026, with successful candidates receiving offers in March.
How to apply
Please follow the link below which will take you to the application portal.