Director, Integrated Product Medical Lead

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice. Director, Integrated Product Medical Lead (m/f/d)  YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES The Integrated Product Medical Lead (IPML) is crucial for advancing the Oncology early development portfolio. As an IPML, you create a significant impact through the successful progression of global development programs and the expansion of our pipeline. You set the vision and strategic direction for assigned programs, ensuring a medically and clinically sound end-to-end development strategy for our products across various modalities, biologies, and indications, representing the full value chain from pre-D1 up to hand-over to late-stage drug development. You build an end-to-end clinical strategy and are responsible for executing development programs on behalf of Early Clinical Development Oncology (ECDO), providing clinical-scientific leadership for one or more global development programs with full decision-making authority. Collaborating with cross-functional IPT members, you drive the creation and maintenance of a target product and target value profile to maximize the clinical success of development programs, significantly shaping the value of the product. You co-lead the incorporation of novel assets into the pipeline through supporting internal and external innovation efforts. Additionally, you play a vital role in shaping functional excellence within ECDO by driving core project, people, and innovative clinical development topics under a peer-reviewed setting, pushing the boundaries of drug development in collaboration with internal and external researchers. Key tasks: Act as the clinical leader and primary clinical representative for global programs, ensuring high quality and speed of functional deliverables. Develop a clinical vision for addressing unmet medical needs, considering the molecule’s scientific hypothesis. Accountable for timely delivery of milestones, mitigating roadblocks, and empowered to take decisions to effectively execute the clinical strategy. Support preclinical evaluation and validation of new oncology assets in line with the Research and Early Development Oncology (RED ONC) strategy. Guide preclinical asset development to enable informed clinical development, facilitating go/no-go decision making. Review key study documents, ensuring alignment with clinical development plans and target product profiles. Provide comprehensive knowledge of the scientific, development, and regulatory landscape to enable state-of-the-art early precision drug development. Proactively interact with academic and industry partners, health authorities, key opinion leaders, and patient advocacy groups. Lead and drive ECDO-initiated strategic initiatives in support of overall ECDO, RED-ONC, Oncology, and Bayer strategy. Independently lead self-empowered matrix teams, promoting a creative and innovation-friendly collaboration between clinicians and scientists. Foster a culture of ownership and empower others, driving peer accountability across portfolio deliverables. WHO YOU ARE Medical excellence: M.D. with several years of experience in direct patient care and board certification within oncology/hematology or associated subspecialties. Scientific excellence demonstrated by a track record of relevant research documented in peer-reviewed publications. Outstanding drug development expertise with several years of experience, including some years in early drug development. Expertise across different biologies and modalities, including small and large molecules. Relevant global health authority interactions and current knowledge of regulatory review and responses. Ability to independently develop a sound medical strategy and teach others to do so. Strong communication and leadership skills, strategic thinking, and good business and external trends insights. High energy with focus and vision; self-motivated with a high sense of ownership and proactive, solution-oriented approach. Fluency in English is mandatory; command of a second major European language, especially German, would be an asset.