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.

Global Clinical Project Lead m/f/d 

As a Global Clinical Project Lead (GCPL), you will serve as the clinical program lead for assigned strategic asset-related projects and strategic programs to maximize Clinical Development & Operations (CD&O) effectiveness. You will strategically plan and execute complex programs, emphasizing lean and efficient implementation to maximize impact. Your role will focus on aligning CD&O programs with customer and stakeholder needs early on, leading to improved integration with stakeholders such as Global Medical Affairs. You will work cross-functionally within CD&O, bringing strategic concepts and innovation to improve the setup of the CD&O organization and its processes. Additionally, you will closely collaborate with senior managers in CD&O and report to the Head of Clinical Data & Performance Excellence, interacting with key executive stakeholders across R&D and beyond. You will lead self-empowered matrix teams in alignment with Bayer’s VACC leadership standards to support effective pipeline execution.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead strategy and transformation initiatives within CD&O from conceptualization to successful implementation
• Generate insights into the CD&O organization to identify improvement potential, and conceptualize and align resulting improvement initiatives with the organization
• Optimize key processes in CD&O to enable faster and leaner execution
• Act as a thought partner for senior stakeholders within CD&O and Pharma on key improvement and innovation topics
• Drive and enhance cross-functional experience and insight handover to prepare launch readiness, collaboratively planning and building hand-over plans from the clinical program into commercialization preparation with Medical Affairs and Commercial
• Develop and implement a portfolio of measures for investigators to be highly engaged in Bayer programs, focusing on times before and after study execution
• Refine the customer engagement model with investigators to ensure engagement beyond trial execution
• Generate insights on key drivers and success factors for investigator engagement
• Contribute insights into the critical path to launch

• Elaborate key data to support Life Cycle Management decisions and communicate subgroup analysis for respective compound in collaboration with country organization

• Build customer focus by ensuring customer engagement activities align with product strategy
• Build executive engagement plans for key investigators
• Lead committed and engaged teams, modelling and shaping effective team behaviour to achieve program goals
• Mentor, provide peer coaching, tactical advice, and expertise within the team network.

WHO YOU ARE

• Master’s degree in Life Sciences with a minimum of 12 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in clinical development and operations, or equivalent experience in Drug Development Project Management
• Proven track record in delivering complex, high-priority clinical programs
• Expert ability to integrate complex cross-functional requirements into an operationally executable plan, including monitoring, regulatory requirements, drug safety requirements, data management processes, and budget parameters
• Thorough understanding of the end-to-end drug development and commercialization process
• Demonstrated abilities to effectively navigate and resolve complex challenges, showcasing strong problem-solving and negotiation skills, and resilience in managing obstacles and uncertainties
• Strong communication and project management skills, with a track record of fostering engagement and collaboration among diverse stakeholders
• Adapts quickly to and promotes change, fosters innovation, seizes strategic opportunities, and adheres to high standards
• High energy with a focus on outcomes, a high sense of ownership, urgency, proactive and solution-oriented, and an open-minded approach to new and creative ideas
• Collaborates with accountability and drives impactful decision-making and results within virtual, multi-cultural, and geographically diverse teams
• Established coaching and mentoring skills
• Effective written and verbal communication, with thorough knowledge of oral and written English.

This job posting will be open for applications until 19th February. Thank you!

Location:

Switzerland : Basel-City : Basel  

Division:

Pharmaceuticals

Reference Code:

861506