Portfolio Pricing Manager, Corn States

Bayer•Creve Coeur, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Bayer, we are seeking a Portfolio Pricing Manager for the Corn States portfolio (corn, soy, cotton, wheat). This role is responsible for building, maintaining, and owning the pricing models and the pricing plan to achieve commercial targets. The position involves translating assumptions into a priced portfolio plan, running scenarios, and pressure-testing numbers. Once the plan is set, the manager will track and measure performance against the P&L, maintaining a view of price realization versus plan. This role requires analyzing in-season market data to identify trends, competitive positioning, and deviations from commercial targets, drawing clear insights, and presenting them to customer-facing teams to drive action. The manager will also propose plans to mitigate deviations, support the modeling of marketing programs and incentives, and provide pricing and mix inputs for production planning. Collaboration with customer-facing teams (SAMs, TPRs) is essential to ground assumptions in market reality and to land pricing guidance. Maintaining working knowledge of competitive trait offerings, list and net pricing, and share dynamics, along with ensuring data quality, documentation, and process discipline, are key aspects of this role. This position is based in St. Louis, with relocation support offered.

Requirements

Strong quantitative and analytical skills with Excel modeling; comfortable in building and maintaining pricing models hands-on.
Working knowledge of Power BI, Spotfire and/or Tableau to build reporting and visualize in-season and post-season performance.
Commercial acumen: understands pricing, product mix, margin and P&L levers and how field decisions move them.
Ability to build a storyline from data and present and position it clearly to customer-facing teams and leadership.
Process orientation, attention to detail and disciplined follow-through on recurring, deadline-driven deliverables.
Results orientation with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, business or agricultural discipline
8+ years in pricing, revenue management, commercial finance or sales/marketing analytics.
Row crop or seed industry experience and familiarity with Order Bank, forecast and competitive data sources preferred.

Responsibilities

Build, maintain and own the pricing models and the pricing plan for the Corn States portfolio (corn, soy, cotton, wheat) to deliver the Y1 and Y2 commercial targets.
Translate volume, product mix and trait mix assumptions into a fully priced portfolio plan; run scenarios and pressure-test the numbers before the plan is locked.
Track and measure the pricing plan through the season and deliver on the P&L, maintaining a running view of price realization versus plan.
Analyze in-season market data (forecasts, Order Bank, competitive offers and other reports) to identify trends, competitive positioning and deviations from commercial targets.
Draw clear insights from that data and build the storyline behind them; present and position the analysis to the customer-facing teams so it drives action.
Propose concrete plans to prevent or mitigate in-season deviations to the plan.
Support in modeling the impact of marketing programs, incentives and discount structures; and support their execution.
Support the Y1+Y2 production planning process with pricing and mix inputs.
Partner with the customer facing team (SAMs, TPRs) to ground assumptions in market reality and to land pricing guidance.
Maintain working knowledge of competitive trait offerings, list and net pricing, and share dynamics; keep data quality, documentation and process discipline across all pricing deliverables.