Business Intelligence and Demand Planning Integrator at Bayer

Role purpose

• Responsible to lead the Strategic Planning and Budget across all functions and clusters ensuring that the Africa missions are being fully reflected in the business strategies within country groups.
• Lead business intelligence and customer insight Africa leading to insight to support strategic/operational decision making and planning with short-, mid- and long-term outlook.
• Coordinate the mid- and long-term ambition setting with the Value Preposition Squad and Customer Teams (LSDP & 5 Years Plan)

Key responsibilities and tasks

• Support the commercial and Go to market teams in strategy and long-range planning through accurate customer and channel data and customer insights.
• Accountable for coordinating demand planning for short, mid and long terms cycles.
• Coordinate and manage the 5 year plan using it as the base for long term strategic goal setting and demand planning. Coordinate update meetings and sign off across cluster getting input from all relevant stakeholders.
• Align country group strategic goal setting to long term strategic trends identified and reflect in strategic planning as well as demand planning connected to the Africa missions
• Act as the single source of truth towards customer facing and supporting structure in terms of historical and future data 
• Shape alternatives for accurate market size setting for Sub Saharian and South Africa
• Define clear KPI´s for Unit Supporting Squad and Customer Teams to ensure clear 90 days health checks of our achievements (Scorecard setting)
• Create the entire framework of strategic planning to set up the strategic agenda for all country groups (3 years Plan, 5 years Plan) reflecting our 5 Africa missions
• Operationalize metrics and performance dashboards to design and implement plans along with sales to maximize productivity and profit per sales rep/sales channel through either increase in sales or reduction in cost of sales. Collaborate with Sales and // Commercial Leadership to ensure that Sales Effectiveness metrics are properly addressed into cluster and country goals and KPIs.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Agronomy, Marketing, Business or related fields.
• Minimum 3 years sales, marketing and/or agronomic experience.
• Experience in CRM, data management and analytics is preferred.                                                             
• Agricultural background, experience in the seed, crop protection and/or biotechnology industry is preferred.  
• Good Microsoft Office skills (Excel / Power Point / Word) a prerequisite. Specific experience with MS Excel necessary.                   
• Highly motivated, creative, dynamic and well organized.
• Good business and strategic acumen required.                            
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Fluent in English, oral and written, is required.
• Customer centric and market oriented.
• Experience with project planning and execution
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks with associated deadlines for deliverable results.
• Proven ability to influence effectively in a diverse organization and works well in teams.
• Ability to work well across both commercial and smallholder farmer markets