Field Production Representative

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Field Production Representative (Payette, ID)

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce seed at the expected yield, with optimal quality and cost, and coordinate the timely harvest and delivery of seed from the field to the plant.

• Select growers to improve production reliability by evaluating grower capability, prior performance, isolation distance, production area suitability, and optimum sowing windows.

• Execute all aspects of contractual agreements and recommend updates to grower pricing, contract guidelines, and production strategies.

• Lead and support field activities, including stock seed shipment and reconciliation, trial coordination, rouging, disease and weed scouting, pollination, harvesting, threshing, drying, and delivery to the processing facility.

• Monitor production fields at each phenological stage and work with growers to adopt best practices that maximize seed yield and quality.

• Train production workers and growers on field operations, production standards, and safe, compliant execution of work.

• Update production yield estimates in Bayer digital platforms in a timely and realistic manner and analyze production quantity, quality, cost, base rate, and timeliness data to identify improvement opportunities.

• Coordinate timely field inspections with Field Quality teams and local authorities to secure required phytosanitary certificates for seed exportation.

• Support the Production Coordinator with grower settlement activities and resolution of grower and vendor issues while maintaining strong relationships with growers, labor contractors, and internal teams.

• Partner with Crop Specialist, Field Quality, and Production Research teams to implement projects that improve production reliability, quality, efficiency, and cost while ensuring compliance with SSHE, Human Rights, Business Conduct, QMS, BIO-ETS, and MARGO requirements.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. degree or high school diploma with 3+ years of experience in the seed industry.

• Strong human relations and effective communication skills.

• Ability to build trusted relationships with growers, labor contractors, and cross-functional internal teams.

• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization and collaborate effectively across functions.

• Customer focus, innovation and experimentation mindset, and commitment to knowledge sharing and best practice implementation.

• Process-oriented and results-oriented approach to production planning and execution.

• Strong negotiation, planning, and alignment skills.

• Ability to use digital and analytical tools to support production decisions and performance tracking.

• Business insight, courage, candor, and commitment to compliance and operational excellence.

• Valid driver’s license

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. or MBA.

• Experience leading teams or directing contractor crews.

• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and build effective teams while empowering others to perform at their best.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $75,600.00 - $113,400.00 Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive compensation (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 8/28/26.

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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 Health for all, Hunger for none, 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.

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Location: United States : Idaho : Payette Division: Crop Science Reference Code: 879317

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Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com