Research Product Team Leader

Research Product Team Leader

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.

As a Research Product Team Lead, you will lead a research product team or multiple teams within the Cardiovascular, Renal, and Immunology (CVRI) division. You will build and guide a fit-for-purpose research product team (RPT) to set the vision and strategic direction, ensuring the implementation of an aligned strategy across R&D and Pharma capability pools. Your accountability spans from the initiation of a product program (D1) through the confirmation of preclinical candidates (PCC).

Your tasks and responsibilities include:

• Compose, shape, and maintain a motivated and high-performing research product team(s) that flexibly evolves with project needs
• Lead the discovery of preclinical candidates from program initiation (D1) to preclinical candidate confirmation (PCC) across various therapeutic areas in line with research and portfolio
• Ensure efficient research product program planning and lean execution
• Drive and continuously develop the research product team strategy, vision, and purpose to validate scientific hypotheses and develop high-value, innovative preclinical candidate/product profiles
• Focus the product team on developing and conducting critical experiments that lead to meaningful decisions for a differentiated product
• Drive strategic and quality decision-making with the cross-functional RPT
• Integrate data from various sources to form a holistic evidence base for the asset
• Negotiate and secure resources from R&D and Pharma capability clusters to execute the product mission effectively
• Ensure appropriate consultation of experts and engage with the wider disease community to drive scientific, technical, and operational excellence
• Act as a VACC (Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, Coach) leader, holding team members accountable for their deliverables
• Manage program-related decision powers and financial steering of product budgets
• Create outcome scenarios at data inflection points and present key evidence to governance bodies
• Participate actively in product team leader and disease communities to leverage collective experiences and knowledge
• Embody VACC leadership by guiding teams, removing roadblocks, shaping value-creating systems, and coaching team members

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

• PhD, MD, and/or PharmD with long-term relevant professional and academic experience, including several years in drug discovery and development in Cardiology, Nephrology, or Immunology
• Deep technical and scientific expertise in respective focus areas
• Several years of experience leading and managing cross-functional global discovery teams
• Deep understanding of discovery and translational research, with experience in preclinical and early clinical development
• Experience in managing research budgets
• Successful track record of advancing programs from early discovery to preclinical development
• Situational leadership skills to build high-performance teams in a highly matrixed environment
• Strong strategic mindset and business acumen with system awareness
• Proven entrepreneurial mindset and courage to challenge the status quo, striving for continuous improvement and innovation
• Excellent communication, networking, negotiation, and collaboration skills to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to drive and influence decision-making across the organization with strong stakeholder management capabilities
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to hold people accountable respectfully
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and support technical research activities as needed
• Applies VACC leadership behaviors, demonstrating self-awareness

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $ 218,880.00 - $328,320.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 06/22/2026.

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.