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.
Staff Digital Specialist
Purpose:
Enhance digital enablement processes with generative AI models and agentic workflows to speed up the design, launch and support of digital products that contribute to an automated end-to-end data and decisions centric pipeline.
Scope:
Global
Key Tasks:
- Define strategic plan for implementation of agentic workflows (including models) across the digital enablement framework (design, launch and support)
- Build robust rubrics and playbooks to quality check performance of AI models
- Make recommendations of frequency of quality checks and performance metrics
- Evaluate, test, govern, launch and support AI models and workflows that contribute to digital enablement
- Be a member of AI focused technical teams and projects where opportunities are defined and problems are framed up for AI suitable tasks
- Define best practices and develop change management processes to facilitate human and AI system collaboration and hand-offs as well as integration with existing workflows to drive digital strategy.
- Rapidly experiment, verify and set guardrails for AI output.
- Maintain current knowledge of the rapidly changing AI landscape and understand opportunities for cost or efficiency gains.
- Evaluate potential solutions with significant opportunity gains and define impacts and build proposals for adoption
- Work closely with business and IT partners to ensure alignment with enterprise strategic framework, timely delivery of required AI capabilities within budget;
- Acquire a deep understanding of end-to-end business processes and strategic imperatives;
- Identify growth opportunities for leveraging AI for advanced data analyses, digital systems and platform enablement;
- Engage both end users and business leads across functions then clearly represent and communicate the needs of the functions;
- Define and track project success metrics to ensure delivery of anticipated business capabilities;
- Problem-solve and prioritize high-value work related to Data Science and Engineering objectives
Key Working Relation:
o Scientists, breeders, testing and operations teams across Vegetable R&D globally (850+)
o Enterprise IT partners (100+)
o Bayer Functional Division team members (25+)
o APD team (25+)
Qualification & Competencies:
Education/Experience
- PhD +3 years’ experience, MS +6 years' experience or BS and 8+ years' experience in Data Science, Decision Science, or Data Engineering.
Skills (Technical & Soft)
- AI foundation and domain mastery with ability to execute code-based agentic workflows
- Ability to adapt in rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrated R&D domain knowledge in R&D with strong preference for agriculture sector experience;
- Thorough understanding of IT product pipelines;
- Experience with Agile methodologies and project management;
- Demonstrated matrix project leadership and proven ability to grow relationships independently with key partners;
- Excellent written and oral communication; complete proficiency in English with ability to coordinate and clearly communicate information between technical IT teams, scientists and business stakeholders;
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational and influencing skills, independent and cross functional problem solving which drive digital business solutions effectively with international and interdisciplinary teams;
- Demonstrated project leadership and influence skills that develop trusting partnerships with cross-functional teams, leading to lasting digital change.
This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.
Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.
Location:
Spain : Cataluña : Barcelona
Division:
Crop Science
Reference Code:
867111
