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About the Role
As Vice President Strategy, you will shape the division’s strategic agenda, translate it into measurable implementation priorities, and help drive the scalable rollout of AI across functions, product teams, and customer-facing teams. Join us to combine strategic rigor with execution discipline and enable sustainable growth.
Responsibilities
- Shape and continuously evolve the long-term strategy for Bayer Pharmaceuticals, reflecting external trends, customer needs, portfolio priorities, competitive dynamics, and enterprise ambitions.
- Lead strategic planning processes, translating strategic choices into clear priorities, roadmaps, milestones, governance, and performance measures.
- Develop actionable strategic narratives and recommendations to enable senior leadership decision-making.
- Identify strategic opportunities, risks, and trade-offs, and facilitate timely decisions across the division.
- Ensure coherent linkage between divisional strategy, operating model, portfolio choices, resource allocation, and execution plans (end-to-end thinking).
- Own and drive high-priority, cross-functional strategic initiatives from definition through implementation and measurable impact.
- Partner with functional leaders to remove barriers, manage interdependencies, monitor performance, and lead corrective actions where needed.
- Support the division AI agenda, ensuring adoption, value realization, and responsible embedding of AI into business processes, decision-making, and customer value creation.
Requirements
- Significant senior leadership experience in strategy, transformation, consulting, innovation, digital, data, AI, or related business leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise or divisional strategy and converting it into practical implementation plans with measurable outcomes.
- Strong understanding of AI and emerging technologies, with experience translating these capabilities into business value.
- Proven track record leading large, cross-functional strategic initiatives in complex, international environments.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries, which is strongly preferred.
- Exceptional executive presence, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills across functions and geographies.
- Strong strategic problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear choices and recommendations.
- Purpose-driven, collaborative, inclusive, and resilient leader with a bias toward action and measurable impact.
Skills
- Strategy
- Transformation
- Consulting
- Innovation
- Digital
- Data
- AI
- Business Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Executive Presence
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Problem-Solving
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Life Sciences Industry
- Healthcare Industry
Location
- Germany: Berlin: Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- 138.200€ - 175.200€ per year (full-time) plus a variable component and a global equity-based cash plan.
Benefits
- Flexible, appreciative, and tailored benefits package.
- Competitive salary plus a variable component and a global equity-based cash plan.
- Loving company daycare centers at multiple locations.
- Support in finding childcare.
- Time off for the care of elderly or dependent family members.
- Summer camps for children.
- Access to learning and development opportunities.
- Training programs through the Bayer Learning Academy.
- Development dialogues.
- Coaching and mentoring programs.
- Promote health awareness and opportunities for selfcare.
- Free health checks with the company doctor.
- Inclusive work environment.
About the Company
- At Bayer, we believe work should matter. Every day, our teams push toward a future where "Health for all, Hunger for none" is within reach, and every role, from the lab to the field to the boardroom, helps us get there.
- We give people the ownership to shape outcomes, the support to grow through new skills and experiences, and a global community where different perspectives are valued.
- Bayer Pharmaceuticals is advancing its long-term strategy to deliver differentiated value for patients, healthcare professionals, health systems, and society.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.