Data Strategy & Solution Manager

Bayer•Creve Coeur, MO

18h•$124,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Data Strategy and Solution Manager with Bayer Crop Science, you will lead data strategy and implementation decisions for North America, Australia, and New Zealand (NAANZ) Product Supply. You will partner with Product Supply, Commercial, and IT project teams to ensure data provisioning strategies meet process needs while balancing regional and global priorities. Through strong stakeholder relationships, you will influence and drive region-wide improvements that strengthen the integrity, efficiency, and availability of data flows supporting NAANZ Product Supply.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in computer or information science, data science, or business related field
10 years of relevant professional experience, including experience with data strategy, data governance or driving supply chain data solutions
Experience leading complex projects with multiple stakeholders
Ability to understand complex data processes and consequences of decisions and design solutions considering risks
Experience with customer and partner data
Excellent collaboration skills to work across diverse stakeholder groups
Ability to influence all levels of the organization

Nice To Haves

3+ years of project experience with change management experience
3-5+ years experience in data strategy, data governance or driving supply chain data solutions

Responsibilities

Develop knowledge base of current state process enablers from an application and data perspective. Help build knowledge needed deeper in functional teams.
Represent North America (NA) in Global Projects and in New Business Innovation Initiatives.
Engage with Regional IT leaders to define leading practices and design patterns in data strategy for the NA region.
Define and execute a data strategy on behalf of NA ANZ Product Supply that improves the accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of data and ensures access to data generated from and used by external sources and functions outside of SCM.
Contribute to and apply design principles and standards to govern reference, transactional, and reporting data that is captured in enterprise (SAP, SFDC) and function specific tools. Work closely with the IT organization to highlight and resolve data gaps and opportunities to improve data delivery SLAs.
Drive business execution of investments needed to achieve the data strategy in collaboration with global and local IT organizations.
Play the role of business project manager and/or business data solution lead on the largest strategic projects for NA.