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Product Strategy Lead, Machine Data Acquisition
The Global Product Strategy Lead (PSL) owns the global product vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for a designated FieldView product area. The role partners with Regional PSLs, commercial stakeholders, and ART leadership to synthesize needs across regions, recommend investment priorities, and build reusable capabilities that advance FieldView and BCS objectives.
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The primary responsibilities of this role are:
- Co-lead the ART with Engineering, Science, and UX leaders, contributing to detailed planning, prioritization, trade-off decisions, and product launch planning.
- Partner continuously with Regional PSLs and commercial stakeholders to understand customer, market, regional, and business needs across the three regions.
- Translate these inputs into a clear global strategy, prioritized roadmap, and investment recommendations for the assigned product area.
- Balance regional differentiation with common, reusable, and scalable FieldView capabilities that serve the broadest possible set of customer, market, and commercial needs.
- Maintain an evidence-based understanding of customer needs, agricultural workflows, market dynamics, commercial priorities, and product-area performance.
- Use customer research, field feedback, commercial and regional input, product data, adoption measures, and delivery progress to identify opportunities, assess decisions, and refine strategy over time.
- Partner with adjacent product areas and platform teams to identify dependencies, promote coherent end-to-end experiences, and prevent isolated or duplicative solutions.
- Establish and track meaningful customer, commercial, product, and strategic success measures for the product area.
- Represent the product area in relevant planning, portfolio, governance, investment, and leadership forums.
- Communicate product direction, roadmap priorities, investment recommendations, trade-offs, risks, and product performance clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
WHO YOU ARE
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in agriculture, agronomy, agricultural economics, business, technology, engineering, design, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 12+ years of progressive professional experience, including 8+ years in product management, product strategy, digital platform delivery, or related product leadership roles.
- Demonstrated agricultural or digital-agriculture experience, with a strong understanding of farming operations, farmer and advisor needs, agronomic workflows, and the agricultural value chain.
- Demonstrated experience leading the development and launch of digital platforms and products, with a track record of bringing meaningful customer capabilities to market.
- Demonstrated experience developing product vision, strategy, value propositions, business cases, and multi-year product roadmaps for digital products or platforms.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving Product, Engineering, Science, UX, Commercial, Regional, Data, and other stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority, lead prioritization and trade-off decisions, and build alignment in a global, matrixed organization.
- Strong strategic, analytical, systems-thinking, stakeholder-management, and executive-communication skills.
- Demonstrated expertise in Digital AG machine Data Aquisition in each market, including a deep understanding of OEM data fragmentation and OEM data future trends.
- Demonstrated expertise with iOT device products from inception to integration with the OEM equipment for the purpose of data collection as well as manufacturingand GTM
- Demonstrated experience applying this expertise to define product strategy, make investment recommendations, guide product decisions, and bring digital capabilities to market.
- Professional fluency in English.
Preferred:
- Advanced degree in agriculture, agronomy, business, technology, engineering, data science, design, or a related discipline.
- Experience working across multiple global markets or in a global-to-local product model.
- Experience leading and developing product strategy, product management, UX, or other cross-functional teams.
Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $177k-250k. 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.
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: 893687
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