Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At Bayer you have the opportunity to be part of a culture where we value the passion of our employees to innovate and give them the power to change.

The primary responsibilities of this role, Manager Quality Control Tolling Logistics, are to:

• Ensure Bayer’s Quality Management & Stewardship standards for soybean seed production are effectively communicated and in compliance by our network of 23 commercial seed tollers, and 4 foundation seed plants;
• Manage tracking of samples to third party laboratories for testing;
• Ensure test results are reviewed in a timely manner through communication with third party laboratories and internal personnel;
• Review test data to ensure it is completed, accurate, and within quality standards for the crop;
• Ensure test data is uploaded to the Bayer system and batch decisions are communicated internally or to third party;
• Complete training for assigned tasks and understand safety risks prior to performing tasks;
• Revise documents to ensure compliance with Bayer, local, and government requirements and practices;
• Work closely with the NA Soybean QM Manager, the NA Regional QM & Stewardship Managers to continually improve our QM & Stewardship policies & procedures;
• Responsible for 3rd party lab contract administration, including negotiating for seed testing services & fees and maintaining overall responsibility for budgeting and authorizes & processes payment of all seed testing activities (currently ~$200k spend item);
• Direct 3rd party and internal lab activities to ensure appropriate quality tests are being performed for various seed genetics, traits, etc.;
• Work closely with Tolling Managers and NA Soybean QM Manager to lead investigation of incidents of non-conforming seed and customer complaints, as they relate to seed quality, documents findings, and leads implementation of corrective and preventative actions to mitigate reoccurrence;
• Provide on-site training to tolling sites and lab partners including development of training materials as it relates to quality control, complaint investigations, etc.;
• Maintain thorough documentation of all seed testing results to meet state and regulatory approvals;
• Be a “super user” of the SAP-QM and LIMS systems to capture all testing data, perform analysis, and use data to drive decisions to help improve seed production operations;
• Review and interpret seed quality testing results and approve and release seed lots for shipment;
• Manage the variance approval process;
• Ensure accurate labeling of bags & tags with trait, seed treatments, and seed quality analysis information to meet federal and state seed law requirements;
• Work with local state boards and local authorities to resolve seed quality related issues;
• Supervise seasonal employees and contractors who support seed quality activities;
• Attend and participate in monthly safety training, tool box meetings, and ensure contract employees follow all safety policies;
• Lead one or more safety programs for the site;
• Assist as needed in soybean operations or other assignments as directed by management;
• Maintain alignment between commercial operations and production planning for direct materials;
• Improve visibility of production plans, on-time delivery of direct materials, fluid material flow between suppliers/sites, and on-time startup for annual production campaigns;
• Lead soybean seed demand/production planners and Tolling Managers to support supply of direct materials for finished goods production at our network of 23+ contract production tolling sites(bags, tags, pallets, seed treatments, etc.);
• Maintain up to 6 months of rolling “firm-planned” production plan in SAP–APO;
• Monitor, analyze and address demand and purchasing alerts to identify “high risk” situations with regards to independent demands, as well as potential stock outs and/or late deliveries of dependent materials;
• Lead the label graphics group to ensure availability and usage of current approved artwork for tolled products;
• Facilitate master data maintenance, including; MRP changes, procurement strategies, materials extensions, and identifying BOM and recipe issues as it relates to direct materials;
• Maintain multiple STO’s (Stock transport Orders) to load manufacturing sites, and in some circumstances moving items from warehouse to warehouse or site to site, to ensure on-time start-ups and continuous supply; (includes raw bushels, finished lots, direct materials, EPT/APT seed for agronomic services, etc.);
• Expedite materials to achieve manufacturing goals and opportunities through collaboration with warehousing, transportation, procurement, and other manufacturing sites;
• Assist inventory goals by capturing opportunities for rework, consumption of slow-moving raw materials, and timely disposal of obsolete materials;
• Participate in weekly Production Planning meetings to provide updates on production campaigns and assisting BCS production sites with production issues;
• Facilitate expediting of manufacturing activities and shipments.

Who you are

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.
More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• B.A./B.S. in the field of seed science, plant science, agricultural economics, supply chain, or a related discipline;
• Five years of experience in quality management or quality assurance/control, seed production, seed logistics, or agribusiness; or 8-10 years applicable business experience production/research/logistics;
• Ability to identify and build strong business relationships with both internal and external partners;
• Be self-motivated;
• Demonstrate supervisory skills to lead and manage team of direct and indirect employees who seasonally support seed quality and direct materials activities;
• Effectively communicate to tollers and their staffs to provide direction on seed quality and stewardship standards;
• Ability to make recommendations to Parent Seeds Production Mgr & Tolling Mgrs when problems arise;
• Highly skilled in documentation and managing details especially as it relates to reporting requirements for stewardship and QMS, etc.;
• Ability to extract data from SAP QM, SAP- APO, LIMs, etc. to develop analysis for planning, inventory management, and decision making, etc.;
• Report preparation and communications;
• Ability to network effectively with 3rd party contractors and government agencies;
• Lead Business improvement project teams and operational teams;
• Manage complexity and multitask during In-season periods when processing, packaging, and shipping schedules are very critical;
  • Strategic, logical and detail oriented;E
  • ffective communicator both verbal and written;
  • Strong mathematical and numeric skills;
  • Flexible and able to reduce complexity.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two plus years’ experience in ISO 9001, Business Excellence and/or Operational Excellence Experience;
• Agriculture or Seeds industry experience;
• Seed quality experience;
• SAP user experience;
• Auditing experience.

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