YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Supply Manager, are to: 

• Lead, influence, and drive multi-disciplinary teams towards solving pipeline feasibility issues and questions;
• Be responsible for a comprehensive Supply Strategy for all Global Breeding Crops early phase pipeline, leveraging analytics, financials, and automation to ensure pipeline optimization and continuity;
• Provide leadership with contingency and business driven scenarios that help enable long term business insights;
• Influence individuals anywhere within the organization to a common theme, can drive a focused conversation that produces an ideal outcome across differences of opinions and thoughts;
• Be constantly focused on improving the network supply allocation for short- and long-term perspectives to ensure lowest cost of production;
• Leverage performance metrics and KPI’s to ensure the proper sourcing strategy that meets Breeding objectives and then drive transparency and actions through these insights;
• Partner in model creation, logic and use to improve supply network;
• Collaborate with teams to present needed fixed asset investments where supply is infeasible;
• Monitor adherence to Strategic Supply plan for current work to inform future years;
• Be knowledgeable on operational conversions to enable supply: Planting densities, pollination rates, roadmap and cycle time variances.

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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science disciplines and with Supply Chain knowledge, (Biology, Chemistry, etc) with 10 years functional/management experience, or Master’s degree with eight years functional/management experience, or Ph.D. with four years functional/management experience;
• Demonstrated knowledge of logistics optimization models, analytics, and systems;
• Capable of delivering results in a global, matrixed, diverse, fast paced environment;
• Strong organizational and time management skills are required given the job scope;
• Collaborative problem solver, strong communicator, continual improvement mindset;
• Comfortable with managing conflict amongst stakeholders; drives support of strategic priorities through logical presentation for the need for change;
• Skilled at synthesizing large amounts of data and multiple stakeholder points of view into a strategic summary for presentation to global senior leaders in the Executive Sales and Operations Planning Reviews;
• Strong background and experience in Microsoft Excel, Spotfire and other electronic systems;
• Ability to travel 10%.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with eight years or Ph.D. with four years of experience in the sciences;
• Prior experience with Lean principles;
• Working knowledge in molecular marker techniques, and analyses;
• Able to analyze complex, multidisciplinary challenges involving field testing and seed production;
• Experience and passion for solving analytical problems involving data sets using quantitative approaches.