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Field Representative 

POSITION PURPOSE:

• Accountable and responsible for producing seed and achieving expected yield, quality, cost and at the right time. Responsible to deliver reliable seed from field to plant.
• Accountable for managing professional relationships with growers, labor contractors and alignment with internal teams.
• Manage all aspects of safety and compliance, contractual agreements, propose and obtain approvals on grower pricing and contract guidelines and strategies.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Accountable and responsible for the grower selection process to achieve higher production reliability which includes grower background check, review previous reliability and performance, isolation distance, suitability of production area, etc
• Encoring all prework is done before starting each production cycle and grower is prepared to initiate the crop within optimum sowing windows.
• Responsible for supporting activities e.g timely stock seed shipment to grower, arrangements for trials (production research, production related) arrangements for harvesting threshing, extraction, drying and transportation of seed from grower to other locations for further processing and cleaning.
• Ensure timely visit to fields at all stages of growing cycle to monitor crop development. Discuss and advise grower to adopt best practices for seed production following company protocols and best practices.
• Responsible for training production workers.
• Ensure field processes are carried out as per specifications and guidelines provided by local/ global SPS and ensure involvement in training to teams and farmers on PR farm or grower field following local SPS schedules.
• Ensuring timely and accurate updates of production estimates in VELOCITY.
• Production data and Analysis review quality, quality, cost and timeliness data. Address areas for improvement, simplification, optimization or expansion of our business, including grower performance analysis.
• Monitor seed shipments from production to operations plants based on the schedule and commitment to pay grower on time.
• Focus on get expertise about pesticides, fungicides, fertilizer, develop technical fertigation skill.
• Responsible for timely grower settlements, coordinate / Support to resolve any issue with the growers and vendor.
• Innovation work with seed production specialist, Field Quality and Production Research team to identify and address project that improves reliability, quality and or cost.
• Ensure compliance of internal and external programs in our operations including HSE, Human Rights, QMS, CSP, business conduct, PGRP, NAFI, SKAL, CSR etc.
• Support to ISPP operational activities during offseason if required.
• Support PH 4 production activities.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Master’s in agriculture / with 3+ years’ experience in vegetables seed production.
• Effective communication skills required. Good knowledge of local language and English is needed.
• Customer Focus, Innovation & Experimentation, Collaboration, and implementation of best practices, Knowledge Sharing.
• Ability to influence all levels in the organization.
• Process Oriented and Results Orientated
• Negotiation skills, plans and aligns.
• Fosters use of digital and analytic tools.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Fosters use of digital and analytic tools.
• Instills trust (with own team and growers)
• Courage and candor, business insight.
• Teams: attracts, develops and built effective teams, empowers them the be their best versions.

Ever feel burnt out by bureaucracy? Us too. That’s why we’re changing the way we work— for higher productivity, faster innovation, and better results. We call it Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO). Learn more about what DSO will mean for you in your new role here  https://www.bayer.com/en/strategy/strategy

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