YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Head of NA Product Development - Hybrids, are to: 

• Develop and implement people, technology and strategies to accelerate and enhance products for corn and canola in United States;
• Ensure goals and resource needs are met and aligned with needs of global business;
• Be responsible to deliver ~~410 products for corn and canola to commercial pipelines annually, resulting in GP of ~10-15B annually;
• Recruit, develop and retain breeding team leads and support staff;
• Perform people management for development scientists and breeding talent across the region for relevant crops;
• Be a regional representative on United States Business Strategy (CSPM) teams for Breeding/Research and Development;
• Lead and contribute to Global Breeding strategies and LRP;
• Ensure that these goals and deliverables are aligned with high level functional goals and commercial goals;
• Lead technology development and process standardization, adoption of best practices and implementation of process improvement measures across organization;
• Work informally to lead coordination and standardization and adoption of breeding technologies across four breeding hubs as lead of Product Development community across regions;
• Lead multi-functional breeding teams with a key focus on driving genetic gain and product performance through digital transformation and new technology deployment;
• Ensure leadership and organizational development, including growth opportunities for key leaders and strong succession;
• Be responsible for capital and budgetary oversight of 30M annually and for care and maintenance of company assets;
• Lead and participate in Global Breeding initiatives (Leads Customer Centric Advancement global initiative) to deliver precision breeding objectives.

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. with at least 15 years of row crop breeding, animal genetics, genomics or similar technology leadership experience;
• At least five years managing commercial portfolio, including interaction with product management and commercial teams to support life-cycle processes;
• At least 10 or more years of relevant experience including technology or business strategy development, implementation and driving innovation;
• At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in developing talent and leading direct and cross-functional teams;
• Strong knowledge of advanced breeding technologies, advanced analytics and information technologies, genomics or quantitative genetics with a proven track record of driving innovation;
• Influence and motivate through leadership (lead by example; live LIFE values), combining professional backgrounds, different countries, nationalities, cultures and languages.