Job Description

Innovation in healthcare is essential to deliver on Bayer’s vision of “Health for All, Hunger for None”.  Partnerships and external innovation are key.  Bayer’s Business Development & Licensing group is charting a new path for how we engage with potential partners, recognizing that the speed of innovation in today’s life sciences requires an adaptive and agile approach to deals and related decision-making. 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Senior Director (BD&L) Business Development & Licensing, Insights and Deal Analytics, are to: 

Responsible for the retrieval of scientific and commercial information for BD&L under time pressure to enable comprehensive due diligence;
Transform vast amount of retrieved data into actionable business insights, enabling BD&L and Senior management for evidence-based decision making;
Responsible to generate meaningful BD&L deal insights like benchmarks and construct analysis as e.g. reference to determine deal negotiation ranges;
Improve risk transparency through identifying disruptive and emerging competition to deal target;
Lead evidence-based deal analysis to inform management, investor relations and other key deal stakeholders in their decision making and internal and external communication, directly impacting the deal perception in capital markets;
Leverage Bayer’s digital transformation for BD&L to increase speed and efficiency for insights generation such as company profiles through automized dash boards;
Lead advancement of the intellectual and technological information and data analytics for BD&L and is single point of contact for BD&L to market research, scientific information and other business insight functions in Bayer;
Based in Boston, MA or Whippany, NJ. 

Relocation may be available for this role.
Sponsorship may be available for this role.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors degree or Master’s degree preferred in Chemistry, Life Sciences or Medicine;
7+ years of industry experience in Business Insights or Market Analytics;
Profound knowledge, capabilities in handling scientific, commercial, BD&L information and knowledge management;
Familiarity with data providers used for BD&L / Pharma Industry for the retrieval of scientific and commercial data;
Broad understanding and experience of BD&L specific analytical requirements such as deal benchmarks and deal structure analysis;
Profound experience in managing supply partnerships with external vendors/providers of scientific / business information sources and related services;
Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills in English Competencies;
Solid ability to understand complex business issues, result driven with strong analytical skills, comfortable with multi-task management and profound ability in priority setting;
Reliability and decisiveness in business decisions combined with creativity and the ability to design and implement highly innovative and sustainable processes;
Ability to influence others and navigate a stakeholder rich environment;
Able to work in an arena with high ambiguity;
Ability to synthesize opinions from diverse functions and geographies.

Preferred Qualifications:

International experience and the ability to adapt to cultural differences in both managing staff and interacting with business leaders throughout the world.

Your application

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and you have the "Passion to Innovate" and the "Power to Change", we encourage you to apply now. To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.