Field Production Representative

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Vision

Dental

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Sick leave

Job summary

Bayer is seeking a Field Production Representative in Idaho to drive seed production with optimal quality and yield. You will select growers, coordinate harvests, and ensure contract compliance across field operations.

As part of the Crop Science division, you’ll lead field activities, train workers, and use Bayer digital tools to monitor performance, while aligning with quality, SSHE, and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Produce seed at the expected yield, with optimal quality and cost, and coordinate the timely harvest 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, and optimum sowing 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 in a timely and realistic manner and analyze production quantity, quality, cost, base rate, and timeliness data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate timely field 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 while maintaining strong 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.

Skills

Communication skills

Relationship building

Negotiation

Planning

Digital tools

Analytical thinking

Compliance

Education

B.S. degree or high school diploma

Tools

Seed production tools

Job description

Field Production Representative

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.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce seed at the expected yield, with optimal quality and cost, and coordinate the timely harvest 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, and optimum sowing 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 in a timely and realistic manner and analyze production quantity, quality, cost, base rate, and timeliness data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate timely field 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 while maintaining strong 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 who possesses the 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 - $113,400.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive compensation (if relevant).

• Additional benefits 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.

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.

Location: United States : Idaho : Payette

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 879317

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