Senior Business Integration Lead

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.

Senior Business Integration Lead

MAIN PURPOSE

• Responsible for leading the integration of business processes for CP Planning and related functions to enable successful operational capabilities and produce accurate transformation deliverables;
• Influencer of CP planning strategies to align w ith overall supply chain strategies, business objectives and long-term imperatives;
• Develop and drive the process and system improvement roadmap to enable achievement of strategic objectives for the CP Planning Teams, which includes digitized processes, system enhancements and opportunities for optimization.

Your Tasks And Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of this role, Senior Business Integration Lead, are to:

• Ensure Planning Leadership and related functions are aligned, prepared and positioned for new Planning process improvements and transformational success;
• Responsible for establishing, documenting, communicating and training new Planning business processes across teams;
• Propose and develop tracking metrics to identify trends and key data points that serve as measures of success for key Planning initiatives. Utilize metrics to evaluate current state, propose future state goals and objectives and monitor progress;
• Ensure communication plans are prepared and delivered for business success, aligning all business stakeholders;
• Responsible for influencing and providing direction across functional integration points for implementation success, addressing Planning business questions and complexities with Leadership teams;
• Principal point of contact for multiple responsibilities related to integration, and establishing the overall integration process design and protocols to be followed by Planning Teams and Leaders;
• Establish working partnerships with integration vendors, manage the pace of the integration, push for timely decisions on key issues and provide accountability for action items and deadlines;
• Accountable for representing critical planning processes and strategies for global and detailed design efforts; serving as the driver and North America Lead for transformational projects;
• Ensure end-user training needs are met. This includes participating in training planning, presentations and demos. Facilitate knowledge transfers between implementation partners and support teams;
• Foster success by continuously providing focus and direction on the most critical issues and highlighting best practices or potential disconnects that could derail or create risk. Escalate when necessary;
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to draft investment review documentation with clear deliverables involving objectives, scope, internal/external benefits, risks, constraints, cost estimate, implementation duration, and return on investment.
• Understand digital strategy roadmaps, identify dependencies across teams, uncover risks and influence various teams to resolve issues and remove roadblocks;
• Advance Planning processes’ efficiency by analyzing trends to identify opportunities and lead process improvement initiatives to address system, process, operational, or training needs;
• Construct process mapping documents to capture and illustrate existing end-to-end planning processes to best understand the opportunities for improvement before designing the optimized future state;

Who You Are

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE (Life Integrity Flexibility Efficiency) values. More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Project management and stakeholder influencing capability.
• Business acumen across multiple business functions (operations, logistics, demand planning, manufacturing, sales);
• Excellent communication skills;
• Ability to make critical decisions aligned with business targets and objectives;
• Ability to drive organizational change;
• Bachelors of Science or Bachelors Administration;
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities;

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ten years of experience in a Supply Planning, Demand Planning, or Manufacturing role.

Relocation assistance available

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

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Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL US CANDIDATES: Bayer expects its colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Bayer defines fully vaccinated in alignment with CDC which is two weeks after completing the two-dose vaccine regimen or two weeks after completing the one-dose regimen. Additionally, Bayer colleagues are also required to comply with state, local and customer requirements.

Location: United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 787394

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