Philipp Schuster is part of the Business Partner organisation for Marketing Services at Bayer and in his role responsible for Creative and Digital Agencies from a category perspective globally and across all Bayer divisions. His focus areas are agencies and production partners and identifying new and innovative ways of collaboration which lead to increased efficiency and consistency for all of Bayer. In previous roles has was the Category lead for Creative Agencies and for Marketing Production at the adidas Group in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Before entering the Marketing Procurement space, he gained experience both on brand-side at PUMA SE (Germany and US) and held retail and marketing positions as well as agency-side at LIGANOVA GmbH, Stuttgart, managing various international key accounts like Tommy Hilfiger, Rockport and FREITAG. He is based at Bayer’s UK office in Reading but spends a lot of time at the various divisional and local Bayer offices in Germany, Switzerland and the US. His passion is sports and travel and enjoys life in the English countryside with his wife Francesca and his two children Penelope and Jack.