Summary
Marcus Gruen is a strategic, hands-on industrial technology leader with 20+ years' experience driving process technology, engineering and supply chain excellence across Bayer’s global Crop Protection and R&D organizations. As Head Crop Protection Innovation and former VP leading supply chain planning for a >€10bn business, he combines deep chemical process expertise with program-level delivery of capital projects, network strategies and S&OP transformations. Known for participative, servant leadership, Marcus builds cross-functional, cross-cultural teams that deliver continuous improvement while enabling individual growth. He champions data-enabled decision-making, open innovation and diversity to de-risk scale-up and accelerate commercialization. Fluent in bridging R&D, operations and procurement, he repeatedly identifies capital avoidance and efficiency gains through novel process solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Diploma Mechanical Engineering, Diploma Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
English, German