Regulatory Stewardship Manager, EMEA

Regulatory Stewardship Manager, EMEA

For our office in Diegem, Belgium we are looking for a Regulatory Stewardship Manager EMEA. Your main purpose consists of providing leadership and support across the entire life cycle for Bayer Crop Science Row Crop Seeds, treated Seed & Traits portfolio. In this role, you will join forces with your colleagues within the global, regional and local regulatory stewardship community and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Translate product specific global stewardship guidelines and policies into regional/country activities (where needed) and ensure that regulatory stewardship obligations are implemented in countries.
• Maintain and cultivate cross-functional stewardship networks regarding unintended trait presence (AP/LLP) within the region; ensure sharing of best practices and facilitate information exchange between sub-regions and countries.
• Provide stewardship support related to seed movement topics (treated seed, phytosanitary, unintended trait presence).
• Drive the network of local stewardship managers and ensure that risk mitigation measures and best practices are understood and implemented.
• Successfully drive compliance programs (ETS, GSG).
• Manage/coordinate effective handling of seed product incidents with support of the Bayer Stewardship Community, avoiding or minimizing financial and reputational impact to the maximum possible extent; promote and train local stewardship managers to report incidents in a consistent and compliant manner.
• Guide S&T stewardship into Velocity, Intelex and other digital platforms in close consultation with global SCQ. Identify, implmenet and accelerate other digitalization opportunities relevant for Seed& Trait Stewardship
• Implement strategies to manage insect resistance for our BT-product portfolio. Establish intense working relationship with regional leads on Resistance Management, Market Development, Field Solution functions and third-party scientist.
• Assure the technical accuracy of stewardship-related information on Bayer seed labels, technical bulletins and other product communications together in the network with local regulatory and stewardship managers and related functions.
• Establish intense working relationship with Public Affairs to seek, foster, and strengthen relationships with relevant external organizations and stakeholders. Communicate to internal and external stakeholders about regulatory stewardship initiatives and achievements at regional and local level.
• Represent Bayer actively in regional industry associations as appropriate and drive BCS view on stewardship industry-wide.

At Bayer Crop Science we know that every field, crop and farmer is different. We offer tailored solutions that enable local farmers to grow smarter by developing crops that are resistant to environmental challenges and helping farmers defend their crops against weeds, diseases, harmful insects and fungi. Using the creative spark that comes from human ingenuity, we seek to deliver word-class innovation, set new standards in sustainability and drive digital transformation. Protecting harvests and fostering biodiversity, that’s how we shape the future of agriculture. Do you want to be an ally in our ambitious mission?

Who you are

• University degree (Master or PHD) in agricultural or biological sciences, plus 10 years of experience within a relevant or seed-related industry.
• Strong in coordinating complex activities involving multiple stakeholders and in developing effective relationships.
• Digital acumen and drive; sees digitalization as a way to render systems and processes more efficient/accurate and drives the transformation within the perimeter of his/her responsibility.
• Proven experience in influencing and winning support from others and in people management.
• Works with a sense of urgency, identifies and overcomes obstacles, takes necessary risks.
• Familiarity with EMEA Seed and Trait, gene editing regulatory sensitivities and societal regulatory obstacles and perceptions.
• Makes sound, timely decisions and confidence to select an appropriate approach, taking full responsibility for end results.

What Bayer offers you

As a modern employer, we take care of our employees and help them find a balance between career development opportunities and personal life planning. We offer our employees a wide range of career prospects, a modern working environment and competitive compensation. Bayer employees benefit from great employment conditions, such as:

• An excellent competitive salary
• Vacation allowance, meal vouchers, year-end premium and bonus (based on company results)
• 34 days of leave (20 legal days, 12 work time reduction days and 2 Bayer days)
• Company car and smartphone
• Group insurance which contains a defined contribution pension plan, life insurance and disability plan and hospitalization insurance
• You have the choice to work up to 40% of your working hours from home. If you work from home, Bayer will provide an office chair, laptop stand, USB keyboard, USB mouse, cabled headset and USB extender, as well as an internet provision of €20,- net
• An inspiring working environment with professional and committed colleagues
• A successful innovative organization with international career possibilities
• Challenges and possibilities to learn and to develop

Your application

Interested in this vacancy?

Send us your cv and motivation letter by clicking the ‘Apply’ button! If you have any questions about the position, you can contact Katrien Mertens (hrop_belgium@bayer.com) via +32 2 535 64 49. We look forward to receiving your online application.

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Locatie:

België : België : Diegem

Divisie:

Crop Science

Referentiecode:

453717