Field Area Manager at Bayer – January, 2024

Field Area Manager at Bayer – January, 2024

At Bayer, we are visionaries driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges, aiming for a world where ‘Health for all, Hunger for none’ is not just a dream but a real possibility. We approach this with energy, curiosity, and dedication, learning from unique perspectives, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities, and redefining what’s considered ‘impossible’. Joining us means building a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds, making a real difference.

Role Purpose:

• Lead the planning and coordination of commercial seed production activities, including grower contracting, planting, detasseling, and harvesting.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to execute and deliver the Crop Plan in full on time.
• Planning and monitoring Field Operations budget, including mobile equipment and materials.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Lead building and maintaining a reliable and sustainable grower base to ensure a reliable supply of commercial seed to the commercial team within Tanzania.
• Lead analytics for field processes to ensure correct decisions for planning, liaising closely with Field and Plant Management teams.
• Lead the planning and coordination of production activities, including grower contracting, planting, detasseling, harvesting, and distribution across geographies.
• Lead coordination with seed growers to ensure a smooth transition and flow of product from the field to the plant.
• Lead HSE efforts according to ISO45001 standards, focusing on legal compliance and identifying safety risks applying the HIRA methodology.
• Lead the development, update, and compliance with quality assurance standards and management systems set by ISO9001:2015.
• Create, manage, and continually track and comply with Operational budgets.
• Identify and deploy operational improvement, tracking, and best practices and processes to continually seek improvements in reliability and cost efficiencies.
• Promote and coordinate the Velocity data management tool to effectively analyze and utilize field data to manage productions effectively. This extends to new technology deployment.
• Manage Velocity and SAP data to ensure correctness for contracting and field processes.
• Actively liaise with Government and Seed certification bodies in industry decision-making.
• Increase end-to-end operational efficiency and advance customer experience through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote and implement best practices with a focus on Quality and Reliability to improve them every year.

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:

• Minimum a diploma or bachelor’s degree in agronomy or 10 years’ experience in seed production.
• Fluent in English.
• MS Office software (Excel, E-mail, Word, Project, etc.).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Results-focused with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Strong teamwork development capability (flexibility to work across the areas and positively influence others).
• Establish clear direction.
• Effective and timely decision-making.

Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, irrespective of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.

 

Please submit your application in the English language.

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