Consumer Health Canada, General Manager, Country Division Head

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.

Consumer Health Canada, General Manager, Country Division Head 

This is a commercial leadership role that focuses on the Consumer Health Division in Canada to:

• operate profitably and employ Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) principles to deliver the business;
• co-create business plans to achieve all desired business targets (market share/sales/EBIT targets) and to deliver P&L for the full portfolio of Consumer Health (CH) Products;
• prioritize resource investments and tradeoffs related to key strategic projects to ensure teams and individuals are spending their time on the most value-adding work;
• lead and nurture an outstanding culture build on collaboration, relationships and fun; and
• lead the Canadian Commercial team, coaching both marketing and sales while collaborating with and empowering cross-functional supporting teams.

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Bayer is committed to a flexible hybrid working environment. This is a permanent position based out of Mississauga, Ontario.

What You Will Do:

• Work to build and nurture team culture and make Bayer CH Canada a great place to work and collaborate, in order to deliver above market business performance
• Lead go to market strategy in Canada, taking advantage of local market and future growth opportunities by assessing product opportunities either from a Bayer international development or through local acquisitions, strategic alliances or licensing opportunities including registration of new products.
• Monitor Canadian economic climate and market development and catalyze timely and matching corrective actions as required to respond to market changes, competitor moves, and other issues.
• Challenge all stakeholders to focus on holistic cross-portfolio value creation.
• Co-create with various functions to ensure short and long term growth.
• Facilitate the flow of resources, skills, and expertise across the integrated CH Canada team to respond to changing needs of the business.
• Work with outside agencies and internal functions to ensure the Division is positioned to achieve desired business initiatives.
• Participate in retrospectives to continually reassess priorities and provide recommendations on phasing and what can start / stop / continue.
• Provide a holistic view of all divisional activities, identifying points of intersection/conflict, and capacity constraints.
• Identify opportunities for business and organizational synergies.
• Lead the evolution to self-managed teams and support these teams as they translate big picture outcomes into relevant team missions and outcomes.
• Revitalize the entrepreneurial spirit of all colleagues as they operate in 90-day cycles to deliver targeted outcomes, ensuring the customer remains the first priority.
• Foster an inclusive environment of professionalism and safe working practices to ensure a healthy organization.
• Empower all colleagues to truly own the business, coaching team members to grow their business acumen.
• Monitor and identify other areas for development to unlock the full potential of employees, maximizing employee performance, job satisfaction, career opportunities and business results.

Who You Are:

• Minimum 15 years’ experience in a leadership capacity
• Expertise in areas including end-to-end brand management, innovation, media, insights and the sales function including account management, ecommerce, category management and trade spend
• Deep Marketing and/or Sales experience with an emphasis on end-to-end brand management and/or customer-facing Sales leadership
• Strong business acumen with a track record of driving revenue growth and achieving financial targets, preferably with national accountabilities in a Consumer Goods (ideally Consumer Health) based Business Unit.  Experience in a Consumer Health organization is preferable
• Knows how to grow and lead consumer brands including a mix of local, regional, global brands of all sizes.
• Culture builder with a focus on building teams, enhancing team development, and developing a great place to work
• Strong experience/knowledge of the Retail landscape
• Understanding of how to develop and implement business strategies
• Proven experience as a dynamic and strategic leader able to achieve business results in an autonomous environment without direct supervision
• Capable of leading diverse high-performing teams with a willingness and ability to strategically delegate decision making into the organization
• Strong English communication skills - written, verbal and listening, to maximize results with both internal and external customers and stakeholders
• University Degree or equivalent, preferably within Business or Marketing

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation and rewards package
• Collaborative, diverse and inclusive culture
• Career development and global opportunities
• Work-life flexibility programs such as flex hours, employee discounts, volunteer days, wellness, and other employee offerings
• An ability to work with the best team in the industry

Bayer is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences and believe that our people are our most valuable asset. The collective sum of individual life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities that our employees invest in their work represents our culture, reputation, and Bayer’s values and purpose.

All referral candidates must first be submitted via our internal referral system by a current Bayer employee in order to participate in the referral program. Once a Bayer employee has successfully referred you in our system, you will receive an automated email with instructions on how to complete your application.

This posting will be available for application until November 2, 2025.

Bayer welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Candidates participating in our selection process requiring accommodation due to a disability or medical need are encouraged to notify the Bayer representative that they will be meeting with to ensure appropriate arrangements can be made.

Location:

Canada : Ontario : Mississauga  

Division:

Consumer Health

Reference Code:

854538