Process Excellence Manager

Process Excellence Manager Supply planning

The Planning Excellence pool drives stabilization, harmonization, and innovation in planning processes, delivering an exceptional experience for customers, partners, and colleagues, while enabling industry-leading performance.

Join us as a Process Excellence Manager for Supply Planning planning a key role to optimize customer service, cash flow, and costs.
Your ownership and can-do attitude paired with the ability to inspire teams, collaborate effectively, and drive action-oriented solutions will be essential to your success.

An exceptional team of talented colleagues is ready to work with you!

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead process communities and/or projects or workstreams in large projects
• Engage teams in defining aspirational outcomes and metrics
• Collaborate with teams to co-create customer-centric, simple best-in-class processes
• Lead design & integration of new technical solutions (e.g. OMP, Agentic AI)
• Develop state-of-the-art knowledge and capabilities within the organization
• Define standards and global SOPs, manage reviews / audits and risks to ensure compliance with external laws and regulations

WHAT YOU BRING

• University Bachelor’s degree in a business or scientific field, preferably Master's, combined with significant work experience within and outside Bayer
• Strong understanding of industry-leading end-to-end pharmaceutical supply chains and business acumen
• Significant experience and proven ability to execute and improve Demand Planning, Supply (Network) Planning and Sales & Operations Execution processes as well as enabling IT systems (APO/OMP) and new technologies (e.g. AI)
• Advanced understanding and practical experience in leading projects and applying Business Process Management / Operational Excellence methodologies
• Proven ability to adapt to quickly changing business & stakeholder needs, and ability to challenge the status quo
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders of diverse backgrounds, as well as the ability to influence others and lead change
• Demonstration of DSO and first VACC behaviors, especially entrepreneurial mindset & ownership

Fluent in English, Spanish is a Plus