Senior Product Manager

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

The Discovery and Lab IT Platform delivers digital solutions that drive innovation, efficiency, and advancement of the Bayer Crop Science product portfolios. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to develop product vision and lead with purpose, collaborating with business strategy, data science and product delivery teams.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
 

The primary responsibilities of this role, Senior Product Manager are to: 
 

• Understand and contribute to the business strategy needs, the end user needs, market and competitive conditions and distill this into a digital product vision to design and deliver a differentiated offering;
• Lead continuous discovery activities to evolve the digital product strategy to meet changing business needs or to leverage new technologies that will enhance the digital product and deliver better business outcomes;
• Identify and partner closely with software engineers, data engineers, designers and other members of the digital product team to direct the development of the digital product;
• Own all digital product roadmap decisions and priority of items on the digital product backlog leveraging a deep understanding of the business and technical dependencies;
• Be responsible for the content and quality of the digital product releases, collaborating with Product Teams to establish a launch plan to ensure usage and adoption;
• Manage stakeholder expectations by effectively communicating the digital product vision, strategy and roadmap to business partners and key business stakeholders;
• Ensure appropriate documentation is created to launch and support the digital product;
• Monitor user feedback and metrics to drive better user experience and business value;
• Utilize and advocate for product management and agile best practices to improve delivery;
• Drive strategy and execution for multiple products, multiple workflows, and often multiple platforms; but largely focused within a single business unit.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values. More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with at least four years of experience as a product manager, product specialist, business analyst or similar role, or Non-degreed with at least nine years of equivalent industry experience or similar role;
• At least two years experience in agile software delivery;
• Strong communication, problem solving, and decision-making skills;
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence working in a cross functional team, building relationships with engineering teams and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• Experience in the business domain relevant to the digital product;
• Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer. 
To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.
 
Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
 
Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below. 

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