North America Regulatory Affairs Crop Protection Regulatory Divestment Expert

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.

North America Regulatory Affairs Crop Protection Regulatory Divestment Expert 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, North America Regulatory Affairs Crop Protection Regulatory Divestment Expert, are to: 

• Demonstrate leadership in developing, aligning, communicating, and implementing the internal regulatory divestment strategy for high value asset divestments;
• Lead due diligence and divestment activities for NA (North America) RA (Regulatory Science), including pre and post-closing activities to fulfill all legal, regulatory, and timeline requirements;
• Partner closely with RS NA CP (Crop Protection) leadership, key stakeholders and Global Regulatory Managers;
• Advocate for NA perspective in building a harmonized approach to the preparation and negotiation phases (pre-closing), such as scoping, compiling required documentation, verifying registration statuses, developing transfer plans for registration data, and contributing expertise, examples and metrics to regulatory discussions in negotiations with 3rd parties;
• Lead the post-closing phases of divestments by acting as the NA regulatory representative to the internal team managing inquiries from the acquirers; and coordinates NA RS expert support including the organization of knowledge transfer;
• Lead external consultant(s) supporting RA divestment deliverables to ensure efficient use of resources, compliance, and timely regulatory approvals;
• Ensure the smooth execution of assigned projects by partnering closely with involved stakeholders, driving for results, and ensuring compliance standards are respected throughout the divestment process;
• Ensure stakeholders and NA RS leadership are well informed of divestment milestones, including supporting further information sharing to their teams.

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 with at least eight years of relevant minimum experience; OR
• Master's degree with at least six years of relevant minimum experience; OR
• Ph.D. with at least four years of relevant minimum experience;
• Profound knowledge of regulatory requirements and good level of knowledge and understanding in agronomic industry business and competitive landscape;
• Profound experience leading and managing projects, including highly complex, international multifunctional projects and teams;
• High ability to solve problems and to structure and simplify complex topics and tasks;
• Strong communication skills with demonstrated ability to influence/persuade and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to manage and resolve conflicts and escalate where needed;
• Ability to contribute to organizational regulatory compliance as required, and/or exhibit leadership in regulatory compliance efforts;
• Ability to work effectively in a team and multi-functional environment, both as a leader and an active contributor;
• Exemplary execution skills, acting in a pragmatic manner, adapting quickly to rapidly changing environments both internally and externally, meeting extremely tight and dynamic timelines without sacrificing quality;
• Ability to act efficiently investing resources that are fit for purpose to the objective and optimize the involvement of internal company resources;
• Very good English skills both written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferably several years of experience in the regulatory area;
• Preferably experience in crop protection/biologics, either in project management and/or business management functions and/or divestments.

Relocation may be offered for this role.