Director, Business Enablement & Chief of Staff LATAM

Director | Business Enablement & Chief of Staff LATAM

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GET TO KNOW OUR AREA:

About Crop Science: Agriculture is at the heart of solving global challenges like climate change, limited natural resources, and a growing population. By combining modern science with farmers’ ingenuity, we deliver sustainable innovations that help farmers grow enough food while protecting the planet. At Bayer, we believe feeding the world and restoring the planet should go hand in hand.

About Business Enablement LATAM: We connect strategy, execution, and performance across the organization, helping turn our shared vision for Crop Science in Latin America into measurable business outcomes. From short-term priorities to long-term ambitions, we provide strategic steering that enables alignment, focus, and impact across the region.

Our main pillars are:

1. Business Steering – Partnering from a commercial perspective with an integrated view of product, markets, and countries strategies, supporting well-informed decisions and strategic alignment across the region.

2. Transformation – Embedding our new operating model, Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO), and accelerating AI adoption to enable faster decision-making, greater collaboration, and more empowered teams, driving innovation and delivering greater value.

3. Chief of Staff – Supporting the Latin America leadership team by connecting functions around shared priorities, enabling alignment, and ensuring execution against common business outcomes.

YOUR MISSION:

As a strategic partner to the regional leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping priorities, driving alignment, and accelerating execution across the region.

Position Purpose: The role operates as a member of the Business Enablement team, focused on strengthening the effectiveness of the Latin America Leadership Team's strategic and business agenda, its collective performance, and its unified voice as the region's leadership, while providing direct support to the President of Crop Science Latin America. The role connects vision, ambition, priorities, perspectives, and decisions across the region's teams, helping a group of strong functional leaders operate as one aligned team: capturing what matters most, shaping it into a coherent and compelling regional narrative, and driving it forward to shared outcomes rather than isolated functional wins. Beyond alignment, the role is accountable for decisive progress, ensuring that the President and the leadership team have the right support to make timely, well-grounded decisions, that priorities advance with clear ownership and follow-through, and that regional ambition is consistently translated into concrete, measurable results.

Scope: Regional. While the formal scope is Crop Science LATAM, the position requires a strong connection with global and country-level contexts and teams.

Key responsibilities include:

• Strategic & Business Agenda: Partner directly with the Business Enablement lead and CS Latam President to shape, prioritize, and steer the region's strategic and business agenda, translating vision and ambition into a focused set of outcomes, decisions, and trade-offs for Crop Science Latin America.
• Decision Support & Synthesis: Distill large volumes of complex, fragmented, or ambiguous information into the critical messages, implications, and decisions the President and Leadership Team need to act with speed and confidence.
• Governance & Operating Rhythm: Design and lead the governance model and operating rhythm for the Latin America Leadership Team, structuring meetings, decision forums, and follow-up mechanisms that convert discussions into clear ownership, accountability, and execution.
• Stakeholder & Systemic Leadership: Build trusted relationships across a senior, diverse leadership team; surface root causes behind stalled decisions or misalignment; and create the conditions for constructive debate and alignment without relying on formal authority.
• Regional Outcomes Ownership: Identify and champion the shared, cross-functional outcomes critical to Crop Science Latin America as a whole, embedding them in the regional agenda and tracking them to completion.
• Business Enablement Integration: Represent Business Enablement within the President's agenda, working in close partnership with the Business Steering and Transformation pillars to connect strategic direction with execution and performance management.
• Executive Communication & Storytelling: Develop and curate high-impact executive materials, narratives, and talking points for internal leadership forums and external/institutional engagements, elevating the President's and the region's voice, with the versatility to move between rigorous, analytical business communication and creative, audience-resonant storytelling for external and leadership-facing engagements.
• Leadership Agenda & Event Orchestration: Own the design and orchestration of the President's and Leadership Team's agenda — including leadership offsites, sales conventions, and senior forums — ensuring purposeful, well-structured, and high-value use of time.
• Cross-Functional Initiative Leadership: Lead and orchestrate high-priority, cross-functional initiatives and regional outcomes that lack a single functional owner, ensuring momentum, coordination, and delivery across the region's teams.
• AI-Driven Acceleration: Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and ways of working across the leadership agenda and Business Enablement, using AI to accelerate synthesis, insight generation, and decision-making, and acting as a catalyst for AI adoption across the regional leadership team.

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, or a related field preferred.

• Significant experience in Strategy, Business Management, Business Enablement, Management Consulting, Finance, Chief of Staff, or comparable leadership roles within complex, matrixed, or multinational organizations.

• Industry Background: Experience in agribusiness, life sciences, or another science, and technology-driven industry is a strong plus, given the technical depth needed to engage credibly within organization.

• Track Record: Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives, governance processes, or senior leadership teams operating rhythms in a regional or global context.

• Languages: Fluency in Portuguese, English and Spanish required.

• Business Acumen: Sufficient technical and commercial depth to engage meaningfully across R&D, Supply, Commercial, and enabling functions, distinguishing genuine strategic trade-offs from noise or personal preference. Strong financial and analytical foundation, with strategic thinking and business knowledge to ground discussions in facts, numbers, and real business substance.

• Executive Presence & Strong Communication Skills: Ability to distill complexity into clear, concise, and compelling messages for senior internal and external audiences.

• Stakeholder management/engagement, resilience & constructive conflict management: Comfortable surfacing difficult or deferred issues, forming independent views, and moving the organization forward without relying on formal authority.

• Systemic Awareness: Skilled at identifying root causes behind stalled decisions or misalignment, and at selectively mobilizing the right stakeholders at the right time.

• Range & Versatility: Equally effective in rigorous, analytical "hard business" contexts and in creative, narrative-driven communication for leadership moments and external engagements.

• AI Fluency & Digital Mindset: Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate synthesis, analysis, and decision support, and to champion AI-enabled ways of working across the leadership agenda.

• Strong learning agility and adaptability: Comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-evolving environments, with the curiosity and discipline to rapidly build true business fluency and new operating dynamics within the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Agribusiness or related industries.
• Previous experience in Chief of Staff, Business Enablement, Strategy & Operations, Executive Advisory, or similar roles.
• Exposure to organizational transformation, digital transformation, AI-related initiatives, or change management programs.
• Regional and/or global experience within complex multinational organizations.

What else you’ll find here:

At Bayer, we care deeply about the well-being of our people. That’s why our benefits are built around three essential pillars: integrated health, financial well-being, and life balance. Together, they support a healthier, more fulfilling life – inside and outside of work.

Here’s a glimpse of what we offer:

• Encouragement for a healthy lifestyle
• Support in identifying and monitoring physical and mental health risks
• Initiatives focused on health promotion, prevention, and care
• Real balance between personal and professional life
• Guidance for personal financial planning
• Insurance and private pension plans to help you build a secure future

And of course, we also offer a full range of market-standard benefits, including medical and dental care, life insurance, meal benefits, Wellhub (formerly Gympass) and TotalPass.

What makes us different:

• Flexible/hybrid work model*
• Short Fridays and extended holiday breaks*
• Flexible vacation planning (within legal guidelines)
• Language courses – Free access to standard courses through our partner Education First (EF), in multiple languages like English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, and Swedish
• Pharmacy subsidy – 50% discount on Bayer over-the-counter products, and full coverage for prescription Bayer medications
• Conte Comigo – A support program offering psychological assistance, help with substance dependency, and legal and financial counseling
• Bem Nascer – A special package of exclusive benefits for new parents
• Childcare assistance – Additional support for parents welcoming a new child
• Parental leave – A benefit designed to strengthen family bonds, offering equal opportunities for all parents, regardless of gender identity or family structure
• Private pension plan – A long-term savings plan with a 200% company match on your contributions
• Unico Skill: an educational hub offering 26,000+ courses from 90+ renowned institutions, including undergraduate and graduate programs, MBAs, short courses, mentoring, and language classes.

*Benefits may vary depending on your role and location.

Período disponível para candidatura: 08/09 - 16/09 Referência: 883914

Divisão: Crop Science
Local: Brasil : São Paulo : São Paulo

Área Funcional: Gerenciamento Geral e Consultoria de Negócios
Nível da Posição: VS 3

Grupo de Contratação: Regular Horário de Trabalho: Comercial