Area Lead - Pepper and Eggplant

Bayer CropScience Limited; Buldhana District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayer CropScience Limited in India, Maharashtra, Deulgaonraja, invites an Area Lead - Pepper and Eggplant to drive local production excellence, align contracting conditions with growers, and coordinate with authorities and Bayer functions.

You will manage field production safety, quality, and costs, oversee training of local squads, and deploy digital innovations to improve efficiency while ensuring compliance with internal and local regulations.

Qualifications

• University degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent).
• 7+ years experience in Seed Production/Manufacturing.
• VACC competencies and behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Leads local grower price discussions to ensure consistent contracting conditions in the area.
• Represents the squad to local authorities, universities, and Bayer support functions for state or country specific requirements.
• Aligns and agrees base rates, the Crop Plan/Planned Orders, and capacities for the local squad.
• Responsible for production execution, ensuring outcomes including safety, compliance, reliability, costs, quality, and timing.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Emotional intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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.

Area Lead - Pepper and Eggplant

Leads the aggregation & alignment of the local Field Production squad activities to ensure realisation of the outcomes of right seed (quantity & quality), right time, right cost, and right place for seed production.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads local grower price discussions to ensure consistent contracting conditions in the area
• Represents the squad to local authorities, universities, and Bayer support functions for state or country specific requirements.
• Aligns and agrees base rates, the Crop Plan/Planned Orders, and capacities for the local squad.
• Responsible for production execution, ensuring outcomes including but not limited to: Safety, compliance, reliability, costs, quality, and timing.
• Aggregates & coordinates local field production squad’s activities & operations for both in-house & external productions of any seed production contract model.
• Ensures that local Seed Multiplier / Grower / Toller resources and infrastructure are available, organized, contracted, developed and maintained for sustainable, reliable, and cost-effective seed supply.
• Ensures all stages of the crop cycle including pre-cleaning operations are executed and managed by the local production team, ensuring all production data are reported in an accurate and timely manner.
• Responsible for operational compliance to internal Bayer requirements and local regulations.
• Responsible for the successful execution/deployment of digital innovations & mechanization initiatives in field production operations.
• Reviews quantity, quality, costs and timeliness data and addresses areas for improvement, simplification, optimization or expansion of our business, including Grower Performance analysis.
• Responsible for the safe and timely delivery of local production plans to enable business needs whilst meeting field production metrics and optimizing spend. Responsible for local production inventories, controlling costs, reducing field production obsolescence, and insuring all financial KPI’s are met or exceeded.
• Responsible for the annual and multi-year OpEx, CapEx, and FTE plans for local field production squad to ensure adequate capacity & resources.
• Ensures financial risk analysis is completed related to over production, guarantees, quality incentives and special terms.
• Ensures planned orders are accepted within target timelines, AOA’s are created and crops are placed in a manner to meet targeted contract quality, quality, cost and timeliness requirements.
• Assists with identifying and hiring local talent, as needed.
• Actively contributes to root cause analysis of any field deviations and non-standard quality seeds. Collaborates with field squad and Quality to identify corrective and preventive actions.
• Accountable for the co-development and maintenance of relevant QM/ISO procedures, work instructions, and knowledge documents for crop specific content (with Crop Quality Solutions).

WHO YOU ARE:

• University degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent)
• 7+ years experience in Seed Production/Manufacturing
• VACC competencies and behaviors
• Business understanding & acumen
• High level of negotiation skills with ability to influence internal team and external partners and stakeholders
• High emotional intelligence
• Strong cross-functional collaboration & communication

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Bayer is an equal opportunity employer that strongly values fairness and respect at work. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of race, religion, gender, age, physical characteristics, disability, sexual orientation etc. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.

Location: India : Maharashtra : Deulgaonraja

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 881462