Cost Lead Cono Sur

Overview Cost Lead Cono Sur At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where, Health for all and 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 the unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘the 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. When you show proactivity and ambition, we’ll harness it through various opportunities and challenges in the diverse areas of our business – all with a strong and meaningful purpose. Where do you want to go? What do you want to do? How do you want to make a difference? The choice is yours, and we’ll help you get there. Be better together. Be Bayer. Main Purpose Steer and control production costs for the Conosur region by supporting one production site, influencing daily and strategic financial decisions, and improving business performance visibility. Act as a key interface between finance and operations, translating financial insights into operational actions, monitoring plant, field, and overhead costs, identifying variances early, driving savings initiatives, and participating in local production leadership forums. Your mission will be to Lead financial costing, budgeting and bottom-up forecasting processes for field and plant costs, and facilitate financial performance meetings. Manage cost challenges, monitor fixed expenses, and act as a focal point for COGM-related discussions with country clusters. Serve as a Country Cluster Leadership team member, providing financial support to the Production Lead in steering the business. Act as a business partner by coordinating financial continuous improvement processes with a focus on cost optimization and validating cost-saving initiatives. Provide COGS analysis to support profitability strategy definition and execution across country clusters. Drive Finance Excellence through KPI benchmarking across sites, best practice adoption (“One PSS”), and cost synergy tracking. Lead cost ownership training and financial onboarding for budget and forecast owners. Participate in costing system implementation and management (COGM). Support audits, inventory counts, and fixed asset management, acting as a guide and facilitator. Serve as people focal point for a team of three, recognized for coaching and continuous improvement in daily processes. Unlock your potential Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, or Engineering. 7+ years of cumulative experience across different finance areas, with prior experience in FP&A and Controllership. Strong competencies in strategic and digital mindset, results orientation, change management, and ambiguity management. Excellent communication, organizational, market awareness, and influencing skills. Fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Your application 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 or gender expression. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination. Period of application: 19-1-2026 al 1-2-2026 Division: Crop Science Modality: Hybrid, 3 times per week in office Type of employment: Permanent #J-18808-Ljbffr