Strategy & Business Performance Manager | Crop Science | São Paulo - SP

Our mission – Health for all, Hunger for none – is at the forefront of everything we do. Imagine a workplace where decisions are made by employees, who are selected and placed on projects based on their skills and knowledge; a company where leaders become coaches and mentors; where innovation and planning cycles are as fast as 90 days. With our new operating model, Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO), we are building a more agile organization, oriented toward generating even more value for farmers, patients, consumers, employees, investors, and society.

At Bayer, Diversity and Inclusion are taken seriously, being a non-negotiable value and one of the strategic pillars of our organization. We believe that diverse teams foster greater innovation and contribute to a more creative and welcoming work environment.

If you want to be the protagonist of your career and have an innovative spirit, this is the place for you! Be yourself. We are Bayer.

GET TO KNOW OUR AREA:

About Crop Science: Agriculture is at the heart of solving global challenges like climate change, limited natural resources, and a growing population. By combining modern science with farmers’ ingenuity, we deliver sustainable innovations that help farmers grow enough food while protecting the planet. At Bayer, we believe feeding the world and restoring the planet should go hand in hand. 

About Business Enablement LATAM: We connect strategy, execution, and performance across the organization, helping turn our shared vision for Crop Science in Latin America into measurable business outcomes. From short-term priorities to long-term ambitions, we provide strategic steering that enables alignment, focus, and impact across the region.

Our main pillars are:

1. Business Steering – Partnering from a commercial perspective with an integrated view of product, markets, and countries strategies, supporting well-informed decisions and strategic alignment across the region.

2. Transformation – Embedding our new operating model, Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO), and accelerating AI adoption to enable faster decision-making, greater collaboration, and more empowered teams, driving innovation and delivering greater value.

3. Chief of Staff – Supporting the Latin America leadership team by connecting functions around shared priorities, enabling alignment, and ensuring execution against common business outcomes.

YOUR MISSION WILL BE:

Position Purpose: The role connects Latam Crop Science strategic ambition with coherent business plans, strategic outcomes and clear overall performance visibility across the region, integrating business, financial and operating model perspectives. It also orchestrates key outcomes and leads selected transformation, change and capability-building initiatives that strengthen how the organization executes its strategy.  

Scope: Regional. While the formal scope is Crop Science Latam, the position requires a strong connection with global and country-level contexts and teams.  

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:  

• Structure and drive cross-functional business and outcomes planning across LATAM Crop Science, consolidating and critically assessing business KPIs, market/competitive perspectives, initiatives pace and impact, and functional inputs to ensure plans are coherent and aligned with the regional strategic ambition.
• Manage an integrated view of strategy and business performance, supporting leadership and business teams in identifying required course corrections and recognizing winning paths/outcomes.
• Partner with Business, Finance, HR, Communications, DT&IT and other key interfaces to connect strategic priorities with plans, ways of working and execution.
• Translate complex business, financial and organizational signals into clear narratives and materials for leadership discussions, enabling better decisions on priorities, trade-offs and resource allocation.
• Lead or co-lead the capability-building agenda within Business Enablement, leveraging AI technologies, business steering best practices and DSO-based ways of working to elevate how the team delivers strategic and performance outcomes.
• Lead or co-lead capability-building initiatives across the organization, helping design, test and scale the evolution of operating model (DSO proficiency) by facilitating cross functional teams and organizing pragmatic, impact-focused ways of working. Take a leadership role in driving the implementation of selected changes across the organization.
• Lead or co-lead the Artificial Intelligence transformation program across the organization, driving business-led, hands-on AI use cases and embedding them into our ways of working to create tangible impact

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Agribusiness, Marketing, Finance, Engineering or a related field.
• Significant experience in Business, Marketing, Strategy, or related roles, ideally in agribusiness.
• Significant experience in Transformation and Change management. • Strong experience in strategic analysis, scenario planning and business case development.
• Proven ability to translate complex and ambiguous narratives/dynamics into actionable business implications and clear plans.
• Strategic thinking, business and financial acumen and market curiosity, with the ability to connect short-term signals and long-term trends into relevant business perspectives.
• High proficiency in applying artificial intelligence and data analytics to business contexts.
• Demonstrated success working in matrix environments, aligning multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborative and co-creative working style, with strong influence, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to synthesize complexity into clear narratives, decision frameworks and practical recommendations.
• Very strong analytical skills.
• Learning agility and adaptability, with comfort operating in ambiguous and evolving environments.
• Very strong communication skills.
• Fluent English; Spanish is desirable.

WHAT ELSE YOU'LL FIND HERE:

At Bayer, we have established our benefits around three essential pillars, which integrate and converge to promote the quality of life and well-being of our employees.

• Medical Assistance
• Dental Assistance
• Medication Subsidy
• GymPass
• “Conte Comigo” – Psychological support, substance dependency assistance, and legal and financial consulting
• “Bem Nascer” – a package full of exclusive benefits for new dads and moms, such as: a car seat to ensure the baby's safety, a personalized book "Enquanto eu Nascia”, health monitoring for mom and baby during pregnancy, co-payment exemption, meetings for parents and expectant mothers, extended maternity and paternity leave, childcare assistance, Bepantol Baby, among others.
• Private Pension
• Life Insurance
• CoopBayer – A cooperative aimed at the financial education of employees
• ** Clube Bayer – Club amenities: barbecue area, game room, swimming pool, gym, party hall, and soccer court
• * Short Friday and bridge-day/holiday scheduling
• Flexible vacation scheduling (within legislation)
• * Hybrid model (Office + Home Office)
• * Flex Time

* There may be some difference in the benefits package depending on the position and location.

** Subject to employee membership.