Breeding Quality Lead

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Job description

Breeding Quality Lead

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Breeding Quality Lead, are to:

* Build and implement a best-in-class Quality Program strategy and goals aligned with business strategies to support sustainable, operationally excellent processes for our breeding operations in all world regions;
* Design and direct implementation of metric-driven systems to deliver sustainable compliance, trait quality and business management programs across Breeding;
* Work with team to training, key performance indicator management, document control, audit and management review;
* Develop and implement an Information Technology (IT) tools strategy for our Quality Systems globally, including systems to deliver real-time metrics for Quality and Compliance related activities to enable monitoring, tracking and improvement;
* Develop a Quality certification strategy and supervise audit preparations for certification and "Excellence through Stewardship" audits for all global regions;
* Collaborate with Global Breeding Leadership teams globally to align business and Quality strategies to achieve proactive risk management;
* Provide leadership and drive talent development for a team of direct reports and dotted line reports;
* Design strategies to develop Quality professionals across the organization, develop leadership skills and prepare talents for rotation across Bayer;
* Lead and/or collaborate with Breeding teams to supervise projects to optimize and improve processes and products globally.

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 10 years of relevant experience or Master's degree with at least eight years of relevant experience or Ph.D. with at least five years of relevant experience;
* At least one year of leadership experience to include project leadership;
* Experience with Quality Management Systems;
* Experience in application of IT solutions to support business operations Experience in working across multi-functional, global teams to deliver results;
* Demonstrated leading through influence across organizations;
* Demonstrated successful collaborations across teams;
* Ability to coach, mentor and develop other team members to become adopters of culture, processes and tools;
* Project management experience with the ability to prioritize and drive projects to completion while working under tight timelines;
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Degree focus in Plant Breeding, Agronomy, Molecular Biology, Quality Management or related discipline;
* Experience in agriculture or business operations;
* At least five years of experience with leading a Quality program;
* Experience with LEAN philosophies and/or Six Sigma methodologies;
* Proficient in Monsanto's enterprise data management and analysis software;
* Experience leading IT strategies and building solutions to meet changing business needs;
* Experience with risk management, compliance and/or trait quality.

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.

If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and you have the "Passion to Innovate" and the "Power to Change", we encourage you to apply now. Job postings will remain open for a minimum of ten business days and are subject to immediate closure thereafter without additional notice. IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL US CANDIDATES: On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six point COVID-19 action plan. As follow up to the initial announcement, the government has shared more details about the federal contractor guidance, including that colleagues who work for businesses that perform certain federal contracts are required to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8, 2021. As a federal contractor, Bayer must follow and implement the federal vaccination requirements. This requirement applies to all current and future Bayer employees working in Consumer Health, Pharmaceuticals and Enabling Functions supporting either of the divisions, effective 12/8/21. Currently, Crop Science (CS) colleagues, and Enabling Function colleagues who exclusively support Crop Science, are exempt from this requirement. Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is our policy to provide reasonable accommodations to any qualified individual who because of a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief or practice receives an exemption from the vaccination requirement, provided that such accommodation would not result in an undue hardship for the company. Division: Crop Science Reference Code 520683 Functional Area: R&D other jobs Location: United States : Missouri : Chesterfield Employment Type: Regular Position Grade: VS 1.2 Contact Us Address Telephone E-Mail Creve Coeur, MO +1 , option #5 63167

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