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Business Unit Lead US0214 

Role can be residence based within market nearby states of Eastern Missouri.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Business Unit Lead, are to:

• Represent Units and collaborate in the Country / Area Level Steering Team to drive Business Objectives through short-, mid-, facilitating the flow of financial resources, skills, and expertise to respond to changing needs within the market and across the broader business;
• Co-own integration of GTM strategy across portfolio, including digital & new solution selling approaches within supporting unit;
• Ownership and accountability of Regional and Divisional SRP’s and key channel partners relationship to deliver on our Bayer business results while partnering with Strategic Account Leads of SRPs represented within the region, ensuring strategic and execution alignment/our SRPs represented within the region, ensuring strategic and execution alignment;
• Co-create customer centric activities and processes to enable a superior customer experience, while driving business growth in a highly competitive and complex business landscape;
• Catalyze timely and matching corrective actions as required to respond to market changes;
• Challenge all stakeholders to focus on holistic cross-portfolio value creation;
• Lead the evolution to self-managed teams and support these teams as they translate big picture outcomes into relevant team missions and outcomes. ensuring the customer remains the first priority;
• Foster an inclusive environment of professionalism and safe working practices;
• Empower all colleagues to own the business, coaching team members to grow their financial and business acumen;
• Monitor and identify other areas for development to maximize employee performance, job satisfaction and career opportunities;
• Role can be residence based within market nearby states.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science, Business, or other related field;
• Proven experience as a dynamic leader able to achieve business results in a relatively autonomous environment without direct supervision;
• Proven experience leading and influencing leading teams across a variety of functions, business lines;
• Strong self-reliance balanced with humility to seek out experts for the greater good of the business and/or people;
• Capable of leading diverse high-performing teams with a willingness and ability to strategically delegate decision making abilities to the lowest level possible;
• Strong business acumen with a track record of driving revenue growth and achieving financial targets, preferably with regional or national accountabilities;
• Financial acumen, ability to interpret and prepare financial statements (P&L);
• A broad understanding of the crop production business, with more specific knowledge of the regional business as it relates to seed, crop protection, distributor customer systems, and competitive environment;
• Strong communication skills - written, verbal and listening, to maximize results with both internal and external customers and stakeholders;
• Valid Driver’s license and eligibility to drive a company car or pooled vehicle (driving record must meet guidelines based on the company’s Risk Screening for Hiring Drivers and MVR will be reviewed as part of pre-employment screening).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years sales and/or marketing experience.

This posting will be available for application until at least February 9, 2026.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $165920.00 - 248880.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Other benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. If selected for this