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

Our products help address some of today’s biggest challenges, including global population growth, an aging society and the need to make efficient – and, wherever possible, sustainable – use of natural resources.

In line with our mission “Bayer: Science For A Better Life,” we aim to improve people’s quality of life by preventing, alleviating or curing diseases. We also help provide an adequate supply of high-quality food, feed and renewable plant-based raw materials. For these endeavors, we focus on developing and successfully commercializing innovative products and solutions based on scientific knowledge.

The position is located in Kihei (Maui), Hawaii with an option for 3+ days/week remote work after onboarding. This is a 12 month contract opportunity.

The role will report to a regional Nursery Data Analyst who is responsible for data and visualizations across three sites in Arizona and Hawaii.

Bayer Crop Science is developing creative agronomic solutions, analytics, and cutting-edge automation in our field and greenhouse nurseries in the Pacific-West region. This multidisciplinary team of agronomists, data scientists, and engineers is seeking a talented individual to implement data analysis and visualization solutions across the operation.

Responsibilities

The position will provide analysis and visualizations to enable biologists and operating teams to best to manage nursery operations. These include the following:

• Deliver data by creating reports and visualizations in PowerBI and Tibco Spotfire and publish regionally through various electronic visual systems
• Work with large, complex datasets
• Work independently and with developers to automate data extraction from multiple enterprise and 3rd party systems
• Performs moderate to extensive problem solving around data quality, accuracy and dataset connectivity
• Brings novel analysis and visualization tools and methods. Each visualization must meet the site's unique needs while integrating with existing enterprise tools
• Build a working knowledge of business processes via job shadowing with field crews, toward end goal of better decision support

Required Skills / Experience

• BS in an analytics-related field, such as Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Engineering or a data-heavy field in Life Sciences, PLUS at least one year of work experience with reporting, data management, or data analytics OR An equivalent combination of related experience/education
• Deep expertise with Microsoft PowerBI
• Familiarity with PL-SQL
• Excellent Excel skills
• Relational database skills

Desired Skills and Experience

• MS in an analytics-related field
• R, Python or other statistical and/or mathematical programming packages
• Programming languages (SQL and non-SQL databases, Kafka, Scala, Go etc.)
• Experience with agriculture, research, manufacturing, automation or related discipline