Selective Herbicides Lead Latam

**Selective Herbicides Lead LatAm / CS / São Paulo, SP**

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Bayer is a global company with core competencies in the areas of life sciences, health care and agriculture. As an innovation company, we set trends in research-intensive areas. Bayer's products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their life quality.

**Position: Selective Herbicides Lead LatAm / Crop Science / São Paulo, SP**

**YOUR MISSION WILL BE TO**:
Main Purpose

Develop near-term (3 year) customer value plans for herbicides pipeline, including pricing, portfolio development, and life cycle management to deliver annual budget aligned with long-range plan. Deliver a 10 years view for project valuation and production needs.

Define in the region the right product portfolio and positioning (supporting launches) as key enablers for business value maximization across branded and licensed businesses.

Ensure Customer Success Strategy lead, crop Strategic Business Leads, and countries are able to achieve results on the portfolio value.

Lead the IWM discussions in LATAM and support new projects connected with digital tools for herbicides.

Key Responsibilities
- Leads team to define and prioritized regional product portfolio strategy across crops based on global asset strategies and regional crop strategies.
- Define product position and value proposition across crops and ensure enabling of countries for their implementation (includes developing pricing strategy, market funding parameters, share targets, volume, brand strategies, distribution plans and portfolio plans).
- Define new product requirements, LCM activities, new uses and portfolio streamlining in line with country and customer needs, supported by R&D/Project Management.
- Drive Sales & Operation Planning process to optimize working capital and product availability by consolidating country sales forecasts, quality check data, align projections with financial plans/goals and ensure product availability to meet aligned forecast.
- Plan for product inventory management.
- Prepare for and drive launch of new products within the region, ensure availability and adoptions of brand packages and communication points for key products.
- Define product value and price objective, aligned with global asset management, the Strategic Business team and the regional business strategy, to enable price strategy and corridors within crops.
- Works with Crop managers and Customer Marketing to provide brand strategies and GTM objectives.
- Tracks position relative to competition, including identifying risks, opportunities and strategic actions.
- Define third party strategy for his portfolio, to be implemented with other Bus, by the 3rd party relations manager.

**ARE YOU READY FOR THE POSITION?**
- University degree.
- Sound knowledge of agribusiness with experience in crop protection portfolio management and pricing.
- Knowledge of herbicides and corn, cereal and sugarcane crops would be ideal.
- Demonstrated customer centricity.
- Leading/influencing peers and senior stakeholders at the global and country level on business decisions.
- Learning agility, being able to adapt to the new requirements of the Company.
- Understanding of crop related political, economic, sciences & technologies and regulatory requirements.
- Managing and collaborating in a matrix organization requiring experience interfacing with global organization.
- Fluent in Portuguese and English (Spanish is desired).
- Location: São Paulo, SP - Brazil.
- Availability to travel.

**What´s in it for you?**

At Bayer we have established our benefits in three essential pillars, which integrate and converge to promote the life quality and well-being of our employees.
- Health Care Plan
- Dental Plan
- Medicines Subsidy
- GymPass
- “Conte Comigo” - Psychological, chemical dependence, legal and financial assistance
- “Bem Nascer” - Health monitoring during pregnancy, no coparticipation in the health care plan, workshop for pregnant women (employees or partner of employees), extended maternity and paternity leave, daycare assistance, Bepantol baby, etc.
- Private Pension Plan - A long term savings vehicle that offers 200% of matching contribution, competitive employee loan portfolio and promotes financial wellbeing
- Life Insurance
- CoopBayer - Cooperative that aims at the financial education and giving credit for employees
- Holidays bridge and holidays regular schedule, occurs all year round, including eve of National Holidays
- Vacations flexibility (within the provisions of the Brazilian legislation)
- **Bayer Country Club - Country Club facilities: Leisure area, game room, swimming pool, gym, party room and football pitch)
- Working from Home policy
- Flex Time and Short Friday
- There may be some difference in the benefits pa