North America Senior Manager Midstream Operations for Biofuels

Bayer•Residence Based, MT

22h•Remote

About The Position

The North America Senior Manager Midstream Operations for Biofuels is accountable for North American midstream partnerships within Bayer’s biofuel closed loops. The role secures, contracts, and operates grain aggregation and crush capacity near priority draw areas. It ensures timely execution of partner contracts, accurate rolling supply and demand forecasts, disciplined crop-to-crush planning, on-time grain delivery against contract commitments, and reliable operational execution. The objective is to provide every acre of camelina and winter canola with a clear, traceable, and cost-effective path to the refiner as both programs scale over a five-year framework. The position manages partner agreements and relationships, grain aggregation and crush operations, logistics, operational risks, and performance. It also owns demand planning and S&OP activities, develops partner network and capacity plans, and informs external investment strategy to help prevent bottlenecks as the programs grow.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in agribusiness, supply chain, engineering, or a related field.
Proven record negotiating tolling, crush service, or offtake agreements.
Strong communication skills across the value chain, including with growers, agents, aggregators, crushers, logistics providers, and refiners.

Nice To Haves

10 years of experience in oilseed processing, grain origination, commodity logistics, renewable fuel supply chains, or related commercial operations.
Working knowledge of RFS/LCFS, CI scoring, and feedstock traceability.
MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

Represent Bayer in partner governance forums and subcommittees.
Define contract structures with grain aggregators and crush partners.
Negotiate, implement, and manage midstream service agreements supporting reliable closed-loop value-chain execution.
Serve as the key account lead for grain aggregators and crush partners in the winter canola and camelina closed loops.
Ensure contract delivery and coordinate communication across Newgold agents, growers, and Sales teams from contracting through delivery.
Oversee grain aggregation and crush operations to meet contract commitments.
Build and manage the North American logistics model for truck and rail freight, storage, and grain, meal, and oil quality requirements.
Track grain deliveries to support year-end reconciliation of service agreements and performance of camelina and winter canola production.
Serve as the primary escalation point for operational issues, including contract non-performance, weather or harvest variability, freight constraints, quality failures, and crush outages.
Build rolling demand forecast dashboards and production plans, manage crop-to-crush planning, and align plans with downstream partner demand forecasts.
Explore digital tools for performance reporting and risk management.
Develop and maintain a grain aggregator and crush partner network map to inform current and future draw zones for grower acquisition and agent placement.
Identify regions requiring additional crush capacity, including greenfield and brownfield opportunities.
Inform external investment strategy and capacity planning to avoid bottlenecks as camelina and winter canola programs scale.