Field Testing Lead Europe West

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**Field Testing Lead Europe West (all genders)**

We are looking for a skilled and visionary Field Testing Lead (FTL) (all genders) for the Europe West sub-region to join our team at Bayer. In this leadership role, you manage and develop a high-performing Field Testing team while establishing strategic capabilities that drive innovation and operational excellence. You oversee multiple breeding field testing sites across three countries, ensuring thorough product evaluation and data capture throughout the crop cycles of corn and oilseed rape for our Seeds & Traits pipelines. As a key liaison with business stakeholders, you play an essential role in fostering continuous growth within our Seeds & Traits portfolio. If you are passionate about agricultural research and ready to lead impactful initiatives, we encourage you to apply

**YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- You establish and maintain a strong regional team culture while influencing a sub-regional Breeding Field Testing level structure that ensures safe and efficient operation of the research program in alignment with Bayer’s HSE, Compliance, and Stewardship requirements, as well as our Business Code of Conduct and Ethics Standards
- You lead the personal development of your team members by implementing a cohesive team environment through coaching, counseling, recognition, and providing clear and timely feedback
- You are responsible for the recruiting, hiring, and onboarding process for new full-time team members when needed
- As a change champion (all genders), you drive development and lead the implementation of novel innovations to enhance field testing efficiency and continuously improve data quality
- You develop and implement the regional strategy required to meet project and organizational goals, including taking over new data generation from the commercial team to ensure commercial success; furthermore, you are accountable for ensuring scientific excellence in your workspace
- You collaborate across global and regional product and technical teams while providing coaching and leadership to these various teams
- You leverage metrics to gauge team performance while sharing and incorporating best practices to further enhance data quality
- You drive continuous improvement of all agricultural practices and key processes across the region and enterprise either through direct action or through the work of your team
- You serve as a key interface with business stakeholders within the countries to ensure the delivery of expected business outcomes

**WHO YOU ARE**
- You hold a master’s degree in agriculture, agronomy, life sciences, engineering, or related field with long-term experience in Agronomy, Agroscience, applied field technology
- In addition, you have several years of demonstrated people leadership experience of complex organizations and markets
- You are an expert (all genders) in financial management of budgets in Sub-Region, including forecasting, cost management, capital planning, and expenditures
- Broad knowledge of modern agricultural practices, industry trends and technology
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement team strategy and alignment with higher level organizational goals
- You demonstrate excellent communication skills in English, additional languages are a plus

**WHAT WE OFFER**

Our benefits package is flexible, appreciative, and tailored to your lifestyle, because**:What matters to you, matters to us**
- We ensure your **financial stability** through a competitive compensation package, consisting of an attractive base pay, our performance based company bonus and a global, equity-based cash plan with a four-year duration. In addition, managers can recognize special contributions by granting an individual performance award.
- Whether it’s hybrid work models or part-time arrangements: Whenever it is possible, you will have the **flexibility** to work how, when and where it is best for you
- Your **family** is a top priority. We offer loving company daycare centers at multiple locations, support in finding childcare, time off for the care of elderly or dependent family members, summer camps for children, and much more
- We support your **professional growth** by providing access to learning and development opportunities, training programs through the Bayer Learning Academy, development dialogues, as well as coaching and mentoring programs
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