Global Plant Health Alliance Lead

Bayer•Chesterfield, MO

1d•$150,000 - $225,000

About The Position

The Global Plant Health Alliance Lead will lead the Global Plant Health Alliance work unit and its technical teams to drive the design, development, and deployment of novel plant health tools and solutions. This role defines and owns technical outcomes that create measurable value for plant breeding pipelines and customers, aligned with a 4+ year Plant Health capability roadmap. The lead will translate strategic outcomes into clear, measurable outputs delivered through dynamic ninety-day execution cycles, continuously prioritizing Plant Health outcomes based on emerging disease risks, scientific advances, and pipeline needs, and reallocating resources as required. The role involves assembling and dynamically adjusting mission-based teams, ensuring the right mix of skills, expertise, and capacity for priority outcomes, and selecting and empowering high-impact experts to lead or deliver missions, ensuring scientific rigor, credibility, and decision quality. The lead will also be responsible for the development, deployment, and improvement of Plant Health capabilities, including screening methods, high-throughput phenotyping, and disease-risk tools. Close partnership with breeding, product, and technical teams is essential to anticipate risks, set priorities, and connect Plant Health outputs directly to pipeline decisions. Ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality technical outputs, such as disease data, validated methodologies, technical prototypes, and actionable insights, is critical. The role requires establishing and maintaining strong operating rhythms, including sprint planning, reviews, dependency management, and risk mitigation. Additionally, the lead will develop and mentor talent, building sustainable Plant Health capability and enabling expertise to flow across hubs, missions, and regions. Serving as project lead for priority Plant Health initiatives, applying strong project management discipline while designing and governing the DSO-VACC–aligned technical architecture, is also a key responsibility. Finally, the lead will deliver quarterly reporting and strategic communications on Plant Health progress, outcomes, risks, and roadmap alignment, ensuring clear, consistent communication and visibility across Crop Science leadership, R&D functions, and key stakeholders.

Requirements

Master’s degree
Advanced in domain expertise with a track record of developing and implementing impactful plant health solutions through innovation and collaboration
Proven experience of building inclusive and diverse teams
Demonstrated ability to coach teams through conflicts, coach for development, and coach teams to become highly effective and outcome-driven within DSO
A role model in VACC behaviors, and act as a ONE Team leader
Digital and data fluency: proficient on core digital tools and workflows; coach of key data literacy and IP/Governance principles; able to critically assess analytics and AI outputs from a business point of view; cost‑aware use of digital resources
Information management and collaboration: Cross‑functional digital collaboration, active socialization of information across the enterprise and beyond their own ‘team,’ visionary and catalyst of digital and AI adoption

Nice To Haves

PhD with minimum 3 years of experience, or MS with minimum 10 years in Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding or related fields
Advance in domain expertise with a track record of developing and implementing impactful plant health solutions through innovation & collaboration

Responsibilities

Lead the Global Plant Health Alliance work unit and its technical teams to drive the design, development, and deployment of novel plant health tools and solutions
Define and own technical outcomes that create measurable value for plant breeding pipelines and customers, aligned with a 4+ year Plant Health capability roadmap
Translate strategic outcomes into clear, measurable outputs delivered through dynamic ninety‑day execution cycles
Continuously prioritize Plant Health outcomes based on emerging disease risks, scientific advances, and pipeline needs, reallocating resources as required
Assemble and dynamically adjust mission‑based teams, ensuring the right mix of skills, expertise, and capacity for priority outcomes
Select and empower high‑impact experts to lead or deliver missions, ensuring scientific rigor, credibility, and decision quality
Lead the development, deployment, and improvement of Plant Health capabilities, including screening methods, high‑throughput phenotyping, and disease‑risk tools
Partner closely with breeding, product, and technical teams to anticipate risks, set priorities, and connect Plant Health outputs directly to pipeline decisions
Ensure on‑time delivery of high‑quality technical outputs, such as disease data, validated methodologies, technical prototypes, and actionable insights
Establish and maintain strong operating rhythms, including sprint planning, reviews, dependency management, and risk mitigation
Develop and mentor talent, building sustainable Plant Health capability and enabling expertise to flow across hubs, missions, and regions
Serve as project lead for priority Plant Health initiatives, applying strong project management discipline while designing and governing the DSO‑VACC–aligned technical architecture
Deliver quarterly reporting and strategic communications on Plant Health progress, outcomes, risks, and roadmap alignment, ensuring clear, consistent communication and visibility across Crop Science leadership, R&D functions, and key stakeholders