Africa Regulatory Science Hub Lead

3 weeks ago

Midrand, South Africa Bayer Full time

**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.**

**Africa Regulatory Science Hub Lead**

**Job Purpose**:

- Customer-enabling leadership role, providing VACC leadership to the cross-technology Regulatory Science capability hub in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- This capability hub houses diverse scientific and regulatory experts in AFR Crop Protection, Biologics, PCM, Stewardship, Seed, Traits, Digital Farming Solutions, and newly emerging regulated Ag technologies.
- The main purpose is to deliver innovation and LTO by obtaining and maintaining AFR product registrations, with particular attention to an effective interface with country regulators, external stakeholders, and the country business. This capability hub and its leader particularly serve the customer-facing needs of the country businesses, while contributing to regional and enterprise objectives.

**Key Task and Responsibilities**:

- Work with the team to set a vision for regulatory affairs for CP, BLX, PCM, Seed, Traits, Digital Solutions and Stewardship objectives in AFR, and guide but empower teams to define and deliver specific pipeline registration, product registration, and renewal/defense/LTO and STW outcomes, in support of customer-enablement goals at country level.
- Architect internal and cross-functional workflows in collaboration with stakeholders. Take initatives to create/populate/evolve/sunset product/technical teams, both for the AFR RS hub, as well as for its working interfaces with other teams such as the EMEA RA hub and other Country RS hubs in EMEA, the global Safety and RA/RSA/RM centers, and crossfunctional interfaces with the customer-enabling support squad(s) in AFR, a.o.
- Catalyze break-throughs in case of obstacles
- People Management of the diverse talent profiles in the AFR RS hub, including identifying talent needs, attracting talent to replenish or evolve the talent pool, and fostering development opportunities. Create an environment where effecitve peer-feedback is welcomed, provide coaching to teams and individuals, and fulfill administrative requirements wrt HR processes/performance management
- Act as a responsible steward of the AFR RS hub resources and support flexible resource allocation to achieve prioritized R&D and Business objectives, as guided by Product and Technical Teams that have been granted applicable pipeline/portfolio decision rights.
- Identify resource bottlenecks and interface with the team, stakeholders and other leaders to find optimal solutions that remove roadblocks, create agile and productive solutions, and maximize value-creation for the customer and enterprise Safeguard Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and ensure workload and development opportunities are distributed in fair and equitable manner, in order to build a great place to work with an agile, engaged and fulfilled workforce

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Creative Mindset
- Visionary: guide teams in defining the outcomes to deliver on the mission
- Architect: shape a value-creating system to unleash the passion and energy of our people
- Catalyst: remove roadblocks to facilitate connection and collaboration
- Coach: help teams learn and build the capabilities needed to create value for customers and stakeholders
- 5 DSO Behaviors
- Regulatory expertise in Agricultural Technologies CP/BLX and S/T
- Advanced academic science degree in Life Sciences, Agronomy, or related
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English; with knowledge of additional local languages a strong plus
- Compliance orientation, Business acumen and Innovation mindset Excellent networking with global, regional and local functions The job requires the social competencies to understand, influence and motivate through VACC leadership, combining professional backgrounds, different countries, nationalities and cultures, and languages

**Application Period**:

- 10 December - 24 December 2024

**Reference Code**:

- 835650

**Division**:

- Crop Science

**Location**:

- South Africa : Gauteng : Midrand || Kenya : Kenya : Nairobi

**Functional Area**:

- Biological R&D

**Position Grade**:

- VS 3

**Employment Type**:

- Regular

**Work Time**:

- Standard

**Contact Us**

**Address**

**Telephone**

**E-Mail**
- 9 Country Estate Drive, Waterfall City, Johannesburg, 2090.
P O Box 143
Isando, 1600, South Africa

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