Global Policy & Trade Lead, APAC/China Advisor

Bayer•Washington, DC

12h•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves developing and executing a comprehensive global advocacy strategy for APAC/China to support BCS commercial growth plans for soybeans and corn, driving innovation delivery to customers primarily in North America, Australia/New Zealand, and Latin America, as well as other geographies. The Global Policy and Trade Lead, APAC/China Advisor, will act as a Business Owner, leading global advocacy strategy by establishing effective stakeholder engagements to support current and future business growth. This includes providing input for budget, business case development, and measures of success, reviewing trade-offs, and engaging stakeholders to communicate opportunities. The role ensures a BCS Value Approach by leading a multifunctional, global team to enable APAC/China LTO for commercial plans, developing cohesive strategies with various internal teams, and contributing to Commercial and Go-To-Market strategies with APAC/China insights. It also involves ensuring Industry Engagement by understanding market landscapes, company offerings, and competitive positions through strong external networks, and leveraging insights internally and externally, particularly with grower customers. The incumbent will initiate Opportunity Analysis by identifying and prioritizing advocacy approaches, building use cases, and recommending expanded relationships while measuring their impact. Finally, the role requires accountability as a visionary, hands-on leader capable of understanding strategy and commercial plans, architecting multi-phased approaches for near-term and long-term value, distilling insights into actionable advocacy plans, influencing partnerships, and creating stakeholder pull for on-time innovation delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as political affairs, agriculture, economics, or a related discipline.
Direct, recent experience working in China and working with the Chinese government in China’s policy and trade ecosystem.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including industry partners or government bodies.
Strong analytical abilities for assessing risk/benefit opportunities to evaluate the potential impact/value of different engagement initiatives and strategies for the business.
Strong understanding of agricultural policy and trade, industry trends, and value creation opportunities across the value chain.
Effective communication and influence skills for generating stakeholder buy-in, making recommendations, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Ability to manage large and complex projects effectively, ensuring that engagements create value, and are executed efficiently and on schedule.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Demonstrated experience building coalitions to advance concrete business outcomes.
Direct, recent experience (within the last 5 years) working with Chinese government in China’s policy and trade ecosystem.
Direct, recent expertise (within the last 5 years) providing strategic counsel on business strategy in Asia Pacific.
15+ years of experience in APAC/China focused policy development.
5+ years of experience in agriculture.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute comprehensive global advocacy strategy vis a vis APAC/China to deliver BCS commercial growth plans for soybeans and corn over the SBP which drive innovation delivery to customers primarily in NA ANZ and LATAM, but in other geographies as well.
Lead Global Advocacy Strategy vis a vis APAC/China by establishing a network of effective stakeholder engagements that support current product and future business growth opportunities for our soybeans and corn business.
Provide input for budget, business case development, on top of measures of success.
Review trade-off and organization focus.
Engage with stakeholders to communicate opportunities.
Drive comprehensive global strategy with focus on NA and LATAM but with implications across global regions.
Lead a multifunctional, global team to ensure shared ownership enabling APAC/China LTO for the BCS soybean and corn commercial plans.
Ensure a cohesive aligned strategy developed with the BCS Enterprise Product Teams, Regulatory, LPC, SP&I, and regional LTOs.
Contribute to development of Commercial and GTM strategies with APAC/China insights to support Crop Science objectives.
Globally understand market landscape, company offerings, competitive positions, and commercial interests through maintaining strong external networks.
Leverage insights and direction internally and externally with particular focus on grower customers and their role in advocacy engagement.
Identify and prioritize advocacy approaches, leveraging SP&I capabilities and internal networks, as well as external contacts in the global advocacy ecosystem.
Build advocacy use cases while also conducting analysis of, and recommendations for, expanded relationships or engagements that add to and/or reinforce approach while measuring the impact and viability of these partnerships.
Act as a visionary hands-on leader with the ability to empathize with strategy and commercial leads and their teams to understand their plans.
Effectively architect a cohesive, multi-phased approach to delivery near-term and long-term value in LTO to the BCS commercial business.
Distill stakeholder, customer, and market insights into an actionable plan guiding advocacy plans.
Influence and attract partnerships.
Create stakeholder pull to effectively support on-time delivery of innovation to our customers.