**Bayer es una compañía general con competencias centradas en los campos de las ciencias de la vida de la salud y la agricultura. Sus productos y servicios están diseñados para beneficiar a las personas y mejorar su calidad de vida. En Bayer tienes la oportunidad de ser parte de una cultura en la que valoramos la pasión de nuestros colaboradores por innovar y darles el poder de cambiar.**
**Production Area Lead**
**Your Main Tasks & 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)
- 5+ 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
**Período de aplicación**:
- Del 31 de Enero al 14 de Febrero 2025
**Código de referencia**:
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**División**:
- Crop Science
**Ubicación**:
- Mexico : Baja California : Mexicali
**Área funcional**:
- Producción
**Grado de posición**:
- VS 1.2
**Tipo de empleo**:
- Permanente
**Tiempo de trabajo**:
- Indeterminado

📌 Production Area Lead (Mexicali)
🏢 Bayer
📍 Mexicali