Senior Manager Nearshore Hub

**Bayer es una compañía global con competencias centradas en los campos de las ciencias de la vida de la salud y la agricultura. Sus productos y servicios están diseñados para beneficiar a las personas y mejorar su calidad de vida. En Bayer tienes la oportunidad de ser parte de una cultura en la que valoramos la pasión de nuestros colaboradores por innovar y darles el poder de cambiar.**

**Senior Manager Nearshore Hub**

**Purpose**:
The position holder requires a collaborative mindset and a focus on driving operational efficiency and service excellence. Close collaboration with Category Supply Leads & Regional Capability Home Leads will be essential to ensure alignment of business objectives and continuous improvement.

The role embraces Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) principles and practices and follows the VACC approach to leadership (being a visionary, architect, catalyst, and coach). The role actively evolves the operating model and fosters successful adoption of DSO including directing resources to highest-impact priorities.

**Scope (global, regional or local)**:Regional.

**Location**: Mexico City. Short-term Assignment (STA), duration of 9-12 months. No remote work.

**Key Tasks**:

- **End-to-End Performance**: Ensure that all aspects of the nearshored product supply activities, are optimized to meet business targets and customer expectations
- **Leadership**: Act as VACC (Visionary, Architect, Coach and Catalyst) to develop, guide and coach a high-performing team of professionals in the Nearshore hub location, promoting a collaborative and innovative work environment
- **Support People Development**: Collaborate with the Operations Lead Nearshore Hub and NA Capability Home Leads to shape employee development, evaluation, compensation and career path based on skills; foster a diverse and inclusive culture where members share and support each other to build their expertise; help recruit, hire, and onboard new employees, based on work team requirements
- **Capability Building**: Support teams to learn in rapid cycles and build capabilities needed to create value for customers and other stakeholders. Support optimal utilization of nearshore resources, help to build a cross-trained, multi-skilled, and pro-active team. Ensure continuous expertise building to manage process and business requirements
- **NA Market Focus**: Cultivate NA business acumen and culture within the Nearshore Hub, with a focus on understanding market particularities (customer & consumer behavior, NA current brand portfolio & strategy) and establishing a customer centric mindset
- **Process Excellence**: Identify and drive continuous improvement and sharing of best practices across teams. Streamline activities by benchmarking with other operations. Stay abreast of supply chain trends and foster a culture of innovation within the team. Drive digitalization, standardization, harmonization, and automation of processes
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**:Nurture collaboration between the Nearshore Hub and U.S. and Canada based teams. Cultivate a cohesive team mindset, regardless of the location of activities

**Key Working Relation**:

- NA Operations Lead Nearshore Hub
- NA Regional PS Lead
- Category Multi-Functional Leadership Team
- Product Supply Multi-Functional Regional Leadership Team
- Customer Teams
- Capability Home Leads
- External Manufacturers / Internal Sites
- Horizontal / Technical Teams

**Qualification & Competencies**:

- Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree with multi-functional experience in Manufacturing, External Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Demand Planning, Business Planning, Project Management, and Operational Excellence/LEAN
- Demonstrated VACC skills (Visionary, Architect, Coach and Catalyst) leading teams and multi-functional team collaboration
- Experience in shared services and/or outsourcing environments
- Experience in successful organizational transformation and change management initiatives
- Exceptional leadership and team-building skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate others
- Experience in planning, forecasting, project management, external manufacturing related experience within the Consumer Product, Consumer Health, CPG or OTC industry
- Detailed knowledge of integrated planning systems functionality, must have working knowledge of ERP systems, SAP/APO preferred
- Digital mindset and experience in data analytics and automation
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging effectively with all levels of the organization and external partners to concisely influence executive leadership peers
- Affinity for servant leadership, situational awareness, continual improvement and transparency
- Passion for driving inclusion, respecting differences, and showing up as authentic best self
- English fluent, spoken and written
- Preferred: Spanish fluent, spoken and written
- Preferred: Greenbelt/Black Belt Certification

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