Crop Specialist

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.

Crop Specialist 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Crop Specialist are to:

• Be responsible for managing the Field Solution (FS) program for the assigned crops maintaining and improving reliability, quality, timeliness, and cost;
• Maintain accurate records of FS increases in proper databases, including seed inventory, inventory transactions, parental seed characteristics, quality, and seed health information;
• Ensure that all the parental lines are genetically fixed - work closely with the breeders to evaluate and assess parental lines’ genetic quality;
• Collaborate with Research and Development (R&D) and Crop Teams with technical support and product advancements;
• Supervise operations including but not limited to seed preparation, seed sowing, rouging, harvesting, threshing, conditioning, seed storage, shipments, and assessment of PGO trials;
• Share relevant parental line information with R&D and Production teams to accelerate producibility learnings and crop management for the successful production of new varieties;
• Be responsible to maintain a high level of hygienic controls, protocols, and supervision of sanitation processes, if needed;
• Engage with key stakeholders R&D and Breeding team, Global production, Pre-commercial, Field Quality, Production Research, and others to identify improvement opportunities to improve reliability, cost, and customer experience;
• Review quantity, quality, cost, and timeliness data and address areas for improvement, simplification, optimization;
• Assist Pre-commercial Manager in OPEX and CAPEX preparations;
• Manage and guide the development of FS Associates;
• Ensure external and internal compliance in our operations, including HSE, Human Rights, Business Conduct, QMS, BIO-ETS, and SOX.

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 required in a scientific discipline with at least three years of relevant experience or Master of Science in a scientific discipline;
• Excellent Human relations  skills, effective communication skills;
• Good knowledge of local language and English;
• Ability to influence all levels in the organization;
• Customer Focus, Innovation & Experimentation, Collaboration and implementation of best practices, Knowledge Sharing;
• Process Oriented and Results Orientated;
• Fosters use of digital and analytic tools;
• Instant trust (with his team and other stakeholders);
• Attracts, Develops and Builds Effective Teams.