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Clinical Key Relations Lead EMEA (all genders) 

The Clinical Key Relations Lead establishes and maintains strategic trust-based relationships with clinical sites to accelerate study start-up and conduct. This role drives local implementation of global key-relations strategies, co-creates engagement and retention approaches for site networks, and ensures seamless cross-functional collaboration to deliver an outstanding investigator and site experience.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Site Relationship Management
• Build and sustain strong, collaborative relationships with clinical key accounts to ensure smooth operations and effective communication.
• Act as the primary alliance contact to build and expand a clinical site network that enables faster study conduct.
• Engagement & Retention
• Design and recommend approaches to engage and retain site participation across the lifecycle of a study, with specific focus on non-key sites.
• Develop study planning frameworks across the portfolio to support stable site engagement.
• Provide the site network with timely knowledge and awareness of current and upcoming clinical trials.
• Create and maintain a long-term collaboration roadmap for sites.
• Strategy Implementation
• Localize and drive implementation of global key-relations strategies that position Bayer as partner-of-choice.
• Translate global priorities into actionable local plans with measurable outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Collaborate closely with Clinical Customer Centricity, Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and other internal functions to ensure alignment and a high-quality customer experience.
• Serve as a coordinated point of contact for sites where applicable.
• Feedback Acquisition & Channeling
• Gather and synthesize feedback on protocol and study design drafts from sites; ensure timely transmission to clinical project teams.
• Report site-level insights and recommendations to clinical operations to inform ongoing study management and optimization.
• Contracting Support
• Support contracting activities and help establish broad frameworks with key sites/networks that enable rapid study start-up.
• Knowledge Sharing
• Enable knowledge flows and best-practice exchange between Bayer and sites, and facilitate cross-site learning via other Clinical Key Relations leads.

WHO YOU ARE

• Master’s degree or a PhD in Medicine or Life Sciences
• Significant years of professional experience in the healthcare industry, preferably with site-facing or relationship-management roles in pharma
• TA-agnostic capability to serve as a first-line scientific and alliance contact without requiring deep domain-specific expertise
• Strong ability to analyze and anticipate site needs and to design superior customer experiences
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to explain complex scientific and operational topics clearly and simply
• Proven track record of developing long-term collaboration strategies and maintaining trusted relationships with key site personnel
• Skilled at partnering with internal and external stakeholders without direct hierarchical authority; comfortable making accountable decisions
• Demonstrated leadership in a matrix organization, with experience driving change and delivering results; embodiment of VACC leadership behaviors
• Fluent in English, additional language skills is an advantage

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 through a competitive compensation package, consisting of an attractive base pay, our performance based company bonus and a global, equity-based cash plan with a four-year duration. In addition, managers can recognize special contributions by granting an individual performance award or top performance award.

• 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.

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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.

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 : North Rhine Westfalia : Wuppertal-Aprath || Germany : Berlin : Berlin || Germany : North Rhine Westfalia : Leverkusen​

​​Division: ​               Pharmaceuticals​

Reference Code:  860555​