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About the Role

Bayer Pharmaceuticals is advancing its long-term strategy to deliver differentiated value for patients, healthcare professionals, health systems, and society. As Senior Director Strategy, you will support divisional leadership in translating strategic priorities and the AI agenda into executable initiatives, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes across functions, product teams, and customer-facing teams. Join us to combine strategic rigor with hands-on execution and enable sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

Support the evolution of Bayer Pharmaceuticals’ long-term strategy through analyses of market trends, customer needs, competitive dynamics, and portfolio priorities.
Translate strategic direction into implementable initiatives, roadmaps, milestones, governance touchpoints, ownership models, and performance measures.
Develop high-quality analyses, strategic recommendations, decision materials, and executive-ready presentations to support leadership decisions.
Support annual and multi-year strategic planning processes, ensuring alignment between strategy, priorities, resource allocation, and execution plans.
Identify strategic opportunities, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs, and propose practical actions and escalation options for senior stakeholders.
Lead selected cross-functional strategic initiatives as delegated, from definition through implementation and impact tracking.
Coordinate execution across functions, product teams, customer teams, and regions, track progress against milestones, and drive mitigation actions with initiative owners.
Support execution of the Pharmaceuticals AI agenda and rollout roadmap by enabling adoption, value tracking, and responsible embedding of AI-enabled ways of working.

Requirements

Extensive experience in strategy, transformation, consulting, innovation, digital, data, AI, or related business roles within a complex organization.
Experience supporting or leading strategic planning and translating strategic priorities into practical implementation plans with measurable outcomes.
Experience managing cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and governance requirements.
Strong understanding of AI, data, digital products, or emerging technologies and how they can be applied to business challenges.
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, synthesizing complex information into clear recommendations and balancing ambition with execution realities.
Experience developing business cases, implementation roadmaps, KPIs, and value-tracking approaches, with strong commercial and operational acumen.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication across functions, geographies, and seniority levels, including creating executive presentations and influencing without formal authority.
Curious, pragmatic, and outcome-oriented, collaborative and inclusive, comfortable in ambiguity, highly organized and resilient, and committed to ethical, responsible, human-centered use of AI.

Skills

Strategy
Transformation
Consulting
Innovation
Digital
Data
AI
Strategic Planning
Cross-functional Initiative Management
Business Case Development
Roadmap Development
KPI Development
Value Tracking
Commercial Acumen
Operational Acumen
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Presentation Development
Influencing
Problem-Solving
Analytical Skills

Location

Germany: Berlin: Berlin

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

129.700€ - 163.800€ per year plus a variable component and a global equity-based cash plan

Benefits

Flexible, appreciative, and tailored benefits package
Competitive salary
Variable compensation component
Global equity-based cash plan
Company daycare centers at multiple locations
Support in finding childcare
Time off for 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
Health awareness and self-care opportunities
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. If you want your work to count and the room to become your best, you'll find it here.
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.