YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Field Planning Lead, are to: 

• Create a centralized capacity and demand plan for all Field Solutions trials which includes available land and required land for treatments, labor costs, seed and effort to conduct trials;
• Lead a small team of 2-6 specialists to work globally across regions to drive harmonization & optimization of field trial planning, allocation and design;
• Harmonize planning and allocation expanding to all indications, crops and all handoff processes;
• Establish relationships with the regions to understand the indications and protocol crop focus;
• Develop a strategy to reconcile the global capacity and demand plans for Field Solutions;
• Define allocation strategy to enable trial placement in the best locations to drive decisions;
• Connect field trial demand and allocation to a financial plan to determine resource utilization;
• Provide a multi-year global field trial forecast for all Field Solutions protocols and trials;
• Create documents to identify dates and deadlines to drive operations and decisions;
• Optimize field testing and logistics coordination to create a more efficient process;
• Create data solutions and visualizations to provide transparency to the field trial forecast/plan;
• Deliver pipeline tracking and forensics to identify gaps, causes and improvement opportunities;
• Collaborate with Automation & Pipeline Connectivity, Agronomic Solutions, Agronomic Operations and R&D IT to plan & design trial management IT systems;
• Identify and develop new innovation, analytics, models and automation to optimize field trial capacity and demand planning, trial allocation and protocol management;
• Conduct small-scale discovery projects to try out new ideas and new ways of working.
   

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:

• Ph.D. in Sciences, Engineering or related field with a minimum of 6 years relevant experience; OR
• M.S. in Sciences, Engineering or related field with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience; OR
• B.S. in Sciences, Engineering or related field with a minimum of 12 years relevant experience;
• Excellent communication and influential leadership skills;
• Visionary mindset and ability to think creatively and act strategically;
• Flexibility to adapt to changing environments and ambiguous situations;
• High ability to solve problems and to structure and simplify complex tasks;
• Sound agricultural knowledge of crops and international crop cultivation;
• Strong scientific methods of working, optimization and innovation mindset, outside-the-box attitude, positive thinking;

• Demonstrated ability to lead and contribute in an international and dynamic research and development team;
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written;
• Ability to travel 15%.

Relocation may be offered for this role.