Senior Customer Business Partner

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Senior Customer Business Partner

Position purpose:

The Customer Business Partner is responsible of designating and driving agreed supply service level performance, effective customer-centric decision-making and end-to-end oversight of S&OP planning in the market while ensuring financial, regulatory and quality compliance. The candidate will possess strong customer/stakeholder relationship management as well as broad Business, Financial Acumen & commercial expertise.

Scope:

Local

Key tasks:

Take customer centric decisions based on trade-off analysis (e.g. allocation management, logistics execution) to meet agreed on service levels in alignment with Commercial/Customer Fulfillment Champion.

Channel and follow through JVC customer feedback into PS functions (act like a champion within PS), actively pursue external data points for further value creation

Interface with local Commercial, Finance, Product Squads Regulatory and Quality

Proactively manage inventory with cost conscious attitude inc. write off management

Steering and owning S&OP, including outcome definitions in local W/Os, Inventory targets and service

Engage with strategic customers to:

Build strong relationships with the Commercial team to jointly manage customer relationships and collaboratively grow strategic customers.

Work with the complete Customer team to ensure a seamlessly running supply chain that meets global standards, customer needs reflected in our S&OP processes and service based on the segmentation.

Harness and integrate customer/Brand level market insights for forecasting model & enrichment.

Driving high quality & reliable forecasting, reducing bias, and level of uncertainty or unplanned forecasts

Developing new use case with Data Scientist & Supply Chain Analytics & Insights Lead

Key relations:

Internal

Country & Regional Stakeholders (Commercial, Finance, Regulatory, Quality, Legal and Country Supply Chain)

Customer Engagement & Product Squads

Customer Supply Chain Americas Leadership Team

Global Business Services

Global Supply Management

External

External Consultants

Auditors

Qualifications & Competencies:

Bachelor’s degree in business administration and a post graduate certificate in a supply chain management discipline preferred

5+ years of management experience in supply chain or manufacturing

Strong leadership and negotiation skills

Strong knowledge of Sales & Operations Planning, end-to-end supply chain management and business insights

Excellent communications, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills

Fluent English skills both in spoken and written form

Strong business acumen and financial knowledge

Courage and driving results in transforming environment

Customer oriented and manages complexity

Acts, learns fast and evolves: works in 90-days cycles, applies learnings fast and continually develops

YOUR APPLICATION

This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.

Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.

Location:

Spain : Cataluña : Barcelona

Division:

Pharmaceuticals

Reference Code:

863709