Vice President, Data Strategy

**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.**

**Vice President, Data Strategy & Governance (M/F/d)**

**YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

The primary responsibilities of this role, Head, Data Strategy and Governance are to:

- Set direction and create roadmap of Data Strategy and Governance across R&D that will deliver business in close partnership with RDLT members
- Ensure the delivery and execution of roadmap
- Partner with scientific experts and R&D leadership to develop and implement world class Data Strategy to provide a competitive advantage in disease understanding, biomarker development, target validation, speed to develop medicines and probability of success in humans
- In collaboration with teams across DS&AI and IT to develop frameworks to enable scalable data capabilities
- Develop and maintain best practices for Data Strategy and Governance
- Ensure organization is using cutting edge processes especially emerging approaches, skills and technologies, focusing them on innovation
- Oversee, enable and steer acquisition and value generation of external data assets in close collaboration with Data Assets and Insights solution team

**WHO YOU ARE**

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

- A Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Bio Medical, Data Analytics or an equivalent highly technical field
- Long-term experience in fields of Data Strategy, Governance, Data Products, Data Architecture, Data Science, with a focus in life sciences industry
- Experience in the pharma/biotech R&D from target discovery through clinical development. Digital literacy and proven ability to drive change using novel technologies
- Several years of experience leading teams that have developed and deployed Data Strategy and Governance with material impact leveraging most advanced and up to date methodologies
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams with direct supervisory and people management responsibilities across time zones and in matrix format
- Have a strong business acumen and strategic thinking plus a solid experience with digital solution roadmaps, blueprints, and designing programs for real world solutions. Strong customer focus, assertiveness, and precise method of operation
- Able to communicate and present internally and externally in a confident manner
- Deep technical understanding of architectural dependencies of technologies in a vast and complex environment and ability to lead and guide experts to channel towards fit for purpose solutions that also fit well within the standards and the digital roadmaps of Bayer;
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken

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**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.

**Location**: Germany : Berlin : Berlin || Germany : North Rhine Westfalia : Wuppertal-Aprath

**Division**: Pharmaceuticals

**Reference Code**:775584