Field Production Representative

Bayer AG; Payette (ID); On-site; USD 76,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Vision

Dental

Retirement

PTO

Sick leave

Job summary

Bayer in Payette, ID is seeking a Field Production Representative to oversee seed production from field to plant, select growers, coordinate harvests, and ensure quality and cost targets are met.

You will train workers, monitor fields, manage inspections, and collaborate with Crop Specialist, Field Quality, and Production Research teams to improve reliability, efficiency and compliance with SSHE and Business Conduct requirements.

Qualifications

• BS degree or HS diploma with 3+ years in the seed industry.
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Ability to influence across functions and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Customer-focused mindset with process-oriented planning.
• Negotiation and cost/quality awareness.
• Experience using digital and analytical tools for production decisions.

Responsibilities

• Produce seed at expected yield, with optimal quality and cost, and coordinate harvest and delivery.
• Select growers to improve reliability by evaluating capability and past performance.
• Execute contracts and suggest updates to pricing and guidelines.
• Lead field activities including seed shipment, trials, rouging, and harvesting.
• Monitor fields and advise growers to maximize yield and quality.
• Train workers and growers on field operations and safety compliance.
• Update production yield estimates and analyze performance data.
• Coordinate field inspections for phytosanitary certificates.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Relationship building

Influence across functions

Customer focus

Process-oriented planning

Negotiation skills

Digital analytics tools

Valid driver’s license

Education

B.S. degree or high school diploma with 3+ years seed industry experience

Job description

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Field Production Representative

At Bayerwe’revisionaries, 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’redoing it with energy,curiosityand sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing ourcapabilitiesand redefining ‘impossible’.There are so many reasons to join us. Ifyou’rehungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference,there’sonly one choice.

Field Production Representative (Payette, ID)

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce seed at the expected yield, withoptimalquality and cost, and coordinate thetimelyharvest and delivery of seed from the field to the plant.
• Select growers to improve production reliability by evaluating grower capability, prior performance, isolation distance, production area suitability, andoptimumsowing windows.
• Execute all aspects of contractual agreements and recommend updates to grower pricing, contract guidelines, and production strategies.
• Lead and support field activities, including stock seed shipment and reconciliation, trial coordination, rouging, disease and weed scouting, pollination, harvesting, threshing, drying, and delivery to the processing facility.
• Monitor production fields at each phenological stage and work with growers to adopt best practices that maximize seed yield and quality.
• Train production workers and growers on field operations, production standards, and safe, compliant execution of work.
• Update production yield estimates in Bayer digital platforms ina timelyand realistic manner and analyze production quantity, quality, cost, base rate, and timeliness data toidentifyimprovement opportunities.
• Coordinatetimelyfield inspections with Field Quality teams and local authorities to secure required phytosanitary certificates for seed exportation.
• Support the Production Coordinator with grower settlement activities and resolution of grower and vendor issues whilemaintainingstrong relationships with growers, labor contractors, and internal teams.
• Partner with Crop Specialist, Field Quality, and Production Research teams to implement projects that improve production reliability, quality, efficiency, and cost while ensuring compliance with SSHE, Human Rights, Business Conduct, QMS, BIO-ETS, and MARGO requirements.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent whopossessesthe following:

Required Qualifications

• B.S. degree or high school diploma with 3+ years of experience in the seed industry.
• Strong human relations and effective communication skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with growers, labor contractors, and cross-functional internal teams.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization and collaborate effectively across functions.
• Customer focus, innovation and experimentation mindset, and commitment to knowledge sharing and best practice implementation.
• Process-oriented and results-oriented approach to production planning and execution.
• Strong negotiation, planning, and alignment skills.
• Ability to use digital and analytical tools to support production decisions and performance tracking.
• Business insight, courage, candor, and commitment to compliance and operational excellence.
• Valid driver’s license

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. or MBA.
• Experience leading teams or directing contractor crews.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and build effective teams while empowering others to perform at their best.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $75,600.00 - $113,400.00Additionalcompensation may include a bonus or incentive compensation (if relevant).Additionalbenefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 8/28/26.

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