YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Breeding Quality Lead, are to: 

• Build and execute a best-in-class Quality Program strategy and goals aligned with business strategies to support sustainable, operationally excellent processes for our breeding operations in all world regions;
• Influence and direct implementation of metric-driven systems to deliver our compliance, trait quality and business management programs across Breeding;
• Work with team to design and implement systems for training, key performance indicator management, document control, audit and management review;
• Develop and implement an IT tools strategy for our Quality Systems globally, including systems to deliver real-time metrics for Quality and Compliance related activities to enable monitoring, tracking and improvement;
• Own “Excellence through Stewardship” and other Quality certifications within Breeding and will be responsible for audit readiness for all global regions.  Coordinate with Breeding Leadership and sites to schedule audits and lead audit preparations by partnering with sites to conduct pre-audits, prepare audit presentations and records, ensure closure of observations and/or corrective actions, and provide audit readiness reports to Breeding Leadership;
• Interact with Global Breeding Leadership teams to gain an understanding of business priorities and direct Quality efforts to align for proactive risk management;
• Builds a network of Quality professionals across the organization to lead them in delivering the highest level of quality excellence across Breeding sites globally.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree with focus on Plant Breeding, Agronomy, Molecular Biology, Quality Management or related discipline and a minimum 10 years’ experience in agriculture or business operations;
• Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience;
• Experience with Quality Management Systems;
• Experience in application of IT solutions to support business operations;
• Experience in working across multi-functional, global teams to deliver results;
• Demonstrated leading through influence across organizations;
• Demonstrated successful collaborations across teams;
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop other team members to become adopters of culture, processes and tools;
• Project management experience with the ability to prioritize and drive projects to completion while working under tight timelines;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to travel independently up to 20%, both domestic and international locations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Plant Breeding, Agronomy, Molecular Biology, Quality Management or related discipline and minimum 8 years’ experience in agriculture or business operations;
• 5+ years’ experience with leading a Quality program;
• Experience with LEAN philosophies and/or Six Sigma methodologies;
• Proficient in Monsanto’s enterprise data management and analysis software;
• Experience leading IT strategies and building solutions to meet changing business needs;
• Experience with risk management, compliance and/or trait quality.

Domestic relocation may be available for this role.