DFS Science NA-ANZ Integrator

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DFS Science NA-ANZ Integrator

The NA-ANZ Regional Science Integrator connects Bayer Digital Farming Science with the North America-Australia-New Zealand Digital New Value unit and commercial business. This leader translates regional growth priorities and customer needs into scientific questions, evidence plans, and digital capability priorities, while helping the business apply DFS data, models, and insights to create measurable customer and business value.

The role aligns Science priorities to the NA-ANZ Digital New Value outcomes while collaborating seamlessly across DFS delivery, R&D and DTIT. This role establishes shared direction, clarifies ownership, resolves gaps, and connects the right science work to the highest-value opportunities.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role are to:

Connect Science and NA-ANZ Business Priorities

• Build a deep understanding of North America crop strategies, customer needs, go-to-market priorities, and barriers to adoption.

• Translate business opportunities into scientific problems, evidence requirements, learning agendas, and capability needs.

• Bring business context to Science teams and scientific possibilities, limitations, and tradeoffs to regional decisions.

• Align science priorities and roadmaps with NA Digital New Value and commercial goals.

Shape and Prioritize New Value Opportunities

• Partner cross-functionally to identify and evaluate opportunities where scientific insight and product recommendations can create value.

• Define the scientific work needed to validate value propositions and support product, commercial, and investment decisions.

• Connect FieldView data, agronomic capabilities, predictive models, and scientific methods to regional growth opportunities.

Lead Cross-Functional Integration

• Establish clear forums and routines for opportunity discovery, prioritization, roadmap alignment, evidence planning, and progress reviews.

• Coordinate requirements, evidence, decisions, ownership, milestones, and handoffs across regional business and global technical teams.

• Identify and resolve gaps in translation, capacity, timing, or expectations before they become delivery risks.

• Build confidence through clear communication about scientific uncertainty, delivery tradeoffs, and requirements for scale.

Advance Evidence-Based Commercial Value

• Define measures and KPIs for customer value, technical performance, adoption, and business impact.

• Ensure scientific evidence is fit for the intended product, commercial decision, claim, or customer experience.

• Use market, customer, and product insights to guide testing and learning.

• Turn results into plain-language recommendations that leaders and nontechnical partners can act on.

Provide Strategic Leadership

• Represent DFS Science in relevant North America Digital New Value and commercial planning forums.

• Advise leaders on priorities, capability gaps, resource needs, and partnerships that can accelerate value creation.

• Coach science and business teams on effective collaboration across organizational boundaries.

• Monitor digital agriculture trends, competitor capabilities, and external science partnerships relevant to North America.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required:

• PhD degree in a relevant scientific, technical, agricultural, or business discipline with 5 years relevant job experience OR Master’s in related field with 10 years relevant job experience OR Bachelor’s in related field with 15 years relevant job experience.

• Experience leading scientific, technical, digital, product, commercial, or innovation programs in agriculture or a related industry.

• Demonstrated ability to connect scientific and technical work to business strategy, customer needs, and measurable outcomes.

• Experience working across science, product, engineering, marketing, and commercial teams in a matrixed organization.

• Knowledge of digital agriculture, agronomic data, analytics, AI/ML, or software-enabled offerings.

• Strong business acumen, facilitation, communication, and influence skills, including the ability to explain complex topics in plain language.

Preferred:

• Experience with the North America crop science business, customer segments, and go-to-market approaches.

• Experience developing evidence strategies for digital agronomic capabilities or commercial value propositions.

• Experience with portfolio prioritization, product roadmaps, customer discovery, or business-case development.

• Experience presenting strategic recommendations and scientific evidence to executive leadership.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $184k-275k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant).  Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc..  This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 10/13/26.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

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Location: United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 890263

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