YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Program Management for AI & PDS Sub‑Home

• Stand up and run the AI & PDS program governance model, ensuring consistent cadence, high‑quality materials, clear actions, and transparent progress tracking.
• Drive alignment of milestones, dependencies, and risks across all AI & PDS workstreams.
• Maintain oversight of enterprise‑wide coordination across Finance, Commercial, Supply, A&I, IT, and corporate AI programs.
• Ensure consistent communication with senior stakeholders, including CH Finance LT, finance forums, and enterprise steering bodies.

Stream Leadership

• Lead selected AI, predictive analytics, forecasting, or data foundation streams end‑to‑end, ensuring delivery quality, business outcomes, and adoption.
• Manage stream‑level backlogs, sprint cycles, scope definition, requirements, testing, and release planning.
• Translate strategic objectives into practical delivery plans and hold cross‑functional partners accountable to outcomes.
• Partner with data science, engineering, system integration, and product roles to ensure solutions are scalable and integrated.

Deputy to Head of AI & PDS

• Serve as deputy, coordinating priorities, aligning AI roadmaps, and supporting decision‑making across the sub‑home.
• Prepare materials, assessments, and recommendations for leadership reviews, enterprise forums, and governance cycles.
• Ensure the sub-home reflects coherent design principles, roles, and ways of working informed by organizational priorities

Ways of Working & Enablement

• Establish and maintain agile and program management standards across the AI & PDS sub-home.
• Support capability building for Finance teams adopting AI, predictive forecasting, or decision science tools, complementing the Drumbeat Coordinator (not merged with this role).
• Enable cross-market and cross-functional collaboration, fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data/Tech, or related field
• Extensive experience in Digital Finance, FP&A, Finance Transformation, AI/analytics programs, or similar multi-stream delivery roles
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex programs with cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with agile delivery, portfolio governance, and structured program management
• Ability to translate strategic direction into executable road maps and hold teams accountable
• Experience working with data science, engineering, or AI teams preferred
• Proven ability to operate autonomously, navigate ambiguity, and synthesize complex information
• You communicate fluently in English, have very strong German skills, and are comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders

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 104.300€ and 126.500€ per year (full-time) plus a variable component. Your compensation is based on your qualifications, skills, and professional experience. 
• Whether it’s hybrid work models or part-time arrangements: Whenever it is possible, you will have the flexibility to work how, when and where it is best for you.
• 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.

The position is to be filled at Bayer Vital GmbH.

Be you. Be Bayer.

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