# Row Crop Planning Full Season Unit Lead

**Company**: Bayer Crop Science
**Location**: Creve Coeur, Missouri
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $178,320.00 to $267,480.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Agriculture

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## Description

The Row Crop Planning Full Season Unit Lead is a key role in Bayer's Supply Chain Management department. You will be responsible for leading a team and driving strategic planning for row crop planning.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Function as the Home Leader for the Row Crop Planning Full Season Unit, providing career coaching, mentoring, and long-term development guidance for team members

- Facilitate formal performance management, compensation, and recognition plans, while collaboratively assessing skill development and impact within work teams

- Set the strategic vision for the Unit, connecting daily work to the 5-year framework and broader Bayer mission

- Drive proficiency in the DSO operating model, integrating and catalysing teams across functions to achieve aligned outcomes

- Coach teams to work in 90-day cycles, prioritising high-impact work through dynamic resource flow

- Develop, implement, and improve future year crop plans to enable SBP margin targets exceeding $6B USD

- Ensure alignment and achievement of Inventory to Sales Ratios for the North America Row Crops team, with inventory values of $1.5B USD

- Support and coach team members to achieve Supply and Allocation plans that drive customer satisfaction

- Oversee obsolescence and discard processes to achieve annual margin targets

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field

- Business acumen with a deep understanding of the Row Crop network and its limitations

- Strong communication skills, building trust across broad stakeholder teams and driving enterprise solutions

- Financial acumen and basic finance/accounting/budgeting/cost control/schedule control/inventory management principles

- Coaching skills to motivate and inspire cross-functional work teams and develop Home Team members' skills

- Strategic thinking and ability to co-create outcomes using a creative mindset

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- 15+ years of functional management experience

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary ($178,320 - $267,480 per year)

- Bonus or commission (if relevant)

- Comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, and sick leave

## Skills

### Required
- business acumen
- strategic thinking
- coaching
- financial acumen
- communication

### Nice to have
- functional management experience

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