Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Our products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time we want to create value through innovation, growth and high earning power.

Bayer Corporation is the North American subsidiary of Bayer AG. Bayer Corporation encompasses the corporate-center functions that support Bayer subgroups in North America: Bayer Crop Science, Bayer Health Care and Bayer MaterialScience.

Bayer Crop Science (BCS) is one of the world`s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non agricultural pest-control, seeds and plant biotechnology.

Bayer Health Care (BHC) makes an important contribution to human and animal health with its innovative products and by researching new therapeutic approaches.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS) is one of the leading producers of polymers and high-performance plastics in North America and is part of the global Bayer MaterialScience business with nearly 15,100 employees at 30 sites around the world and 2008 sales of 9.7 billion euros.

Bayer Business and Technology Services (BBTS) provides business-critical services to Bayer`s North American Subgroups: Bayer Crop Science, Bayer Health Care and Bayer MaterialScience. BBTS is a combination of Bayer Business Services, Bayer Technology Services and other service activities for Bayer in North America.

The primary responsibilities of this role, Manager Business Partner, Global Category Business Units & New Ventures are to:The Manager, BHC O&I Business Partner assists with the management of business partners’ accounts by joining a global account team and contributing to account planning activities and programs / strategic projects that may involve multiple divisional needs as well as geographic differences across sites or regions. Responsible for business case development and execution of projects and programs, and helps maintain responsibility for the value contribution of all projects and programs within the account’s portfolio.

Responsibilities:
• Manage and / or monitor project and service delivery to ensure that O&I is delivering value to business partners
• Ability to think ‘outside the box’ and help align on innovative solutions to drive consumer care business into new areas
• Ability to work with global brand teams to help drive global brand equity and brand awareness with innovative technology solutions
• Responsible for managing global/regional projects and programs as well as project teams and to define the project’s scope, develop a business case, and identify critical attributes needed in resources for the project
• Ability to overcome the complexity of managing projects involving multiple divisional needs and regional / global considerations
• Represent business partners’ interests during global change initiatives
• Build and maintain relationships with business partners while communicating O&I’s scope of services and identify opportunities and developing initiatives that enable business innovation
• Bring value generating ideas that create competitive advantage to BHC, based on a deep understanding of the external technology market
• Contributes to the account’s project portfolio in alignment with the business’s goals and objectives
• Overcomes the complexity of aligning divisional and regional account management activities with the global BHC O&I Strategy and helps to inform the BHC O&I Strategy using business partner perspectives
• Ability to operate in a fast, dynamic environment focused on aggressive growth and work independently and effectively across the global organization
• Responsible to work collaboratively with all IT Units to ensure a One-Team Approach from a business standpoint
• Ability to work in a global matrix organization model and interact effectively and develop consensus with all levels of management/senior management within a multi-functional team environment
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally (~15%).