Program Manager (Mid)

The Crop Science Information and Data Assets team is looking for a project manager to be part of our Data Governance & Stewardship organization. The candidate will manage and provide oversight of dependencies across several complex efforts that span multiple functions across Bayer. The ideal candidate should have experience working in customer-facing roles and understand the commercial and supply chain operations of a large corporation. The project manager will need to coordinate with other project and program managers to understand dependencies and ensure they are tightly managed.

Major Responsibilities:

? Program manager with Product management expertise.

? We have our agile process. We need someone to drive the team with the current process.

? Provide project management for assigned projects

? Will oversee cross-dependencies of very complex projects that may span multiple functions.

? Facilitate initiation, scoping, planning and execution

? Build and/or maintain project execution plan/charter, including approach, scope, tasks, duration, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile, team structuring, staffing, resource allocation, and deliverable definitions

? Maintain and abide by project governance

· Facilitate meetings, capture key action items and context of meetings. Maintain paper trail of decision that impact projects.

? Anticipate and resolve issues and risks

? Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate program and steering committee leadership

? Adhere to the project?s communication plan and ensure compliance with all reporting requirements including communication of project status to all project stakeholders including steering committees and executives

? Measure project progress against agreed upon objectives and success criteria

? Perform financial oversight and analysis

? Ensure adherence to established project management standards and tools

? Coach, mentor and manage project team members as needed

Required Experience and Skills:

? Bachelor?s degree

? 10 or more years of IT or business experience

? Experience in Agile development

? 8-10 or more years of experience managing a variety of full lifecycle application development/integration projects including ERP, Software as a Service, Web, and Information Security projects

? Proven leadership and influence skills including the ability to influence when there is no direct reporting relationship

? Experience leading large applications development/integration projects or programs across multiple countries/functions

? Experience in managing medium to large sized projects across multiple disciplines and/or teams

? Knowledge or understanding of software development lifecycle principles and methodologies

? Ability to build networks and relationships at all levels of the organization

? Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills

? Superior negotiation skills

? Strong team orientation, collaboration skills, and interpersonal skills

? Strong results orientation

? Expertise in defining and improving processes

? Ability to make difficult decisions and to involve others sufficiently in the decision-making process

Desired skills/education/experience/attributes (ideal candidate):

? Project Management certification

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Additional Info:

? Why is this position open? Growth on the team, turn over, skills gap? ? turn over

? Location of this role (CC, North Campus, Chesterfield, etc)? -- CC - onsite

? Who will this person work with on a daily basis? ? Directly reporting to the Supply Chain Management Data Stewardship Lead or the Governance & Stewardship Lead, while indirectly reporting to the Data Services Platform Technical Program Manager

? Tell me about the team dynamic/culture. Team works agilely with a culture of delivering quick products to our consumers.

? What are the ?must haves? to be successful in this role? And What kind of soft skills are you looking for? And What is a day like in this role? What 3-5 responsibilities will occupy their time?

o Objective negotiator.

o Remain positive and motivated in the face of project challenges.

o Strong communications skills, seek feedback and implement improvements to improve on relationships with and between stakeholders.

o Recognizes unnecessary communications, and redirects appropriately. Comfortable and confident with speaking to senior management.

o Disciplined in articulating current state, options, recommendations, ensuring proper documentation of decisions made. Professionally holding team members and service providers accountable to those decisions without creating unneeded duress on resources and risk to milestones.

? What is the long term plan for the role? And Is there a possibility for an extension of this assignment?

o Projects are about 6 months in duration. Based on performance of candidate, may be extended, and assigned to other projects.

? What will make this opportunity stand out for potential candidates?

o Working on a multiple large efforts involving the buildout of many Petabytes of data into Bayer?s Crop Science Data Warehouse.

o Working in a fast paced and high expectation environment with near endless potential of learning and growth.

? Is this more maintenance or new development work? ? New Development Work

? Are you open to candidates relocating (on their own) or do you prefer local candidates? Required that the candidate be local to St. Louis as they will have to come into the CC office when needed.

? What is the minimum number of years of experience required for this position? 7 years or more Project Management experience

? What is the minimum level of education needed for this position? Bachelor?s Degree

? Any certifications required for this role? Project Management certification

? Will this position convert to a FTE Role? no

? Does anyone need to be associated with this requisition to help review resumes or schedule interviews? no

? Do you have an Admin that will help with the onboarding process? Yes, Please include andrea.stevenson@bayer.com in all the onboarding conversations

? What is the interview process, will you schedule a phone screen, video conference or in person interviews? Video

? Will you be OOO anytime soon? Monday March 18