Agronomic Support Digital Ops Mgr

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Agronomic Support Digital Ops Mgr 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Agronomic Support Digital Ops Mgr, are to:

• Work closely with Agronomic Digital Strategy Lead and Customer Experience Design manager to map out a new series of interactions to improve the agronomic experience;
• Develop and execute an operational project plan to deliver digital product information and recommendations to growers, partners or employees and enable the development of advanced analytic building blocks;
• Leverage Agile development principles to build and deliver agronomic experience project plans;
• Provide operational support to bring deliver a digital agronomic/product recommendations model;
• Collaborate with digital product owners, marketing teams and field teams to execute recommendations and other agronomic experience deliverables;
• Drive internal consensus on agronomic experience execution and launch through grower and dealer digital platforms;
• Able to manage change management initiatives to deliver go-to-market agronomic support vision, build initiatives and deploy through the organization in partnership;
• Identify and manage interdependencies across people, processes and technology that impact agronomic experience;
• Identify related initiatives in progress, engage / enroll their support, explore possible intersections and opportunities to collaborate;
• Understand current and future technology tools and platforms needed to deliver recommendations and other agronomic experience deliverables;
• Engage in the development of the business case for investment including capital funding working collaboratively with finance, IT, and others;
• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), tracks, reports project milestones and convenes stakeholders to move initiatives forward;
• Build tracking/dashboard mechanisms and report progress to agronomy experience track leads, NALT sponsors and other relevant leaders.

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 business, agriculture, information technology plus 10 years of experience in Market Development, Marketing, Sales, IT, Finance, or related areas;
• Project management experience: ability to build, activate and deliver on project plans from ideation through execution;
• Excellent collaborator, actively seeks input from others, ability to bring people together to work towards a project, meet deadlines, achieve results;
• In-depth Bayer organization understanding and ability to navigate to achieve results;
• Experience with BCS tools, systems and processes and possesses a strong desire to collaborate & engage with IT;
• Strong communicator who can simplify objectives, deliverables, and operational plans.

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior experience working and leading in a cross-functional role;
• Open-minded, inclusive creative thinker;
• Strong customer focus and strategic mindset;
• Understands digital platforms and data management;
• Results oriented, knows what needs to be done, focuses resources on priorities to deliver results with a strong sense of ownership and accountability;
• Uses test and learn methodology, takes calculated risks, knows how to fail fast.

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