Senior Director Strategy (all genders)

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.

Senior Director Strategy (all genders) 

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 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.

YOUR TASKS AND 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

WHO YOU ARE

• Bring extensive experience in strategy, transformation, consulting, innovation, digital, data, AI, or related business roles within a complex organization
• Demonstrate experience supporting or leading strategic planning and translating strategic priorities into practical implementation plans with measurable outcomes
• Have experience managing cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and governance requirements
• Show a strong understanding of AI, data, digital products, or emerging technologies and how they can be applied to business challenges
• Stand out with strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, synthesizing complex information into clear recommendations and balancing ambition with execution realities
• Have experience developing business cases, implementation roadmaps, KPIs, and value-tracking approaches, with strong commercial and operational acumen
• Excel in stakeholder management and communication across functions, geographies, and seniority levels, including creating executive presentations and influencing without formal authority
• Are 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

WHAT WE OFFER   Our benefits package is flexible, appreciative, and tailored to your lifestyle, because: What matters to you, matters to us! 

• We ensure your financial stability with a competitive salary between 129.700€ and 163.800€ per year (full-time) plus a variable component and a global equity-based cash plan. Your compensation is based on your qualifications, skills, and professional experience. 
• Your family is a top priority. We offer 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, and much more.
• We support your professional growth by providing access to learning and development opportunities, training programs through the Bayer Learning Academy, development dialogues, as well as coaching and mentoring programs.
• We promote health awareness and opportunities for selfcare through various measures, such as free health checks with the company doctor.
• We embrace diversity by providing an inclusive work environment in which you are welcomed, supported, and encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

  Be You. Be Bayer.   #LI-AMSEMEA   

YOUR APPLICATION

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.

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.
 

Location:            ​ ​  ​   Germany : Berlin : Berlin ​

​ ​ Division: ​               Pharmaceuticals ​

Reference Code:  896361 ​