Job Description

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.

Digital Accelerator Lead - Radiology

The purpose of this position is to set up, provide strategic leadership and operational management of the Radiology Digital Accelerator based in Toronto, Canada. The Digital Accelerator will be focused on collaboration with external partners in the digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) space, with an eye toward enhancing and augmenting radiology imaging and workflow solutions.

Bayer is committed to a flexible hybrid working environment. This is a permanent position.

What you will do:

• Accelerator Strategic and Operational Ownership and Accountability: Fully accountable and responsible for setting up, leading, managing, and establishing strategic direction for the Toronto Digital Accelerator. This includes establishing a local team of community managers, AI and scientific specialists, technical leads, and students.
• AI and Digital Partnerships: Increase partnerships with the Greater Toronto Area digital and AI community, bringing products, technology, capabilities, and talent closer to our Commercial and Digital organizations.
• Product Identification: Identify meaningful digital and AI solutions in close collaboration with the Canadian Radiology commercial and digital organizations, other technology hubs within Bayer, external partners and Bayer cross-functional teams. These solutions must meet customer and patient unmet needs.
• Commercial Communication and Partnership: Partner with local commercial team and global marketing chapter teams to plan activities/events and to define communications and outreach concepts to internal and external stakeholders (ex: LinkedIn).
• Hospital, Academic and Governmental Partnerships: Establish a network and cultivate relationships with local government, academic institutions, hospitals and Key Opinion Leaders.
• Project Ownership, Alignment and Resourcing: Develops and drives the advancement and implementation of Bayer\'s portfolio of innovation projects taking place at the Digital Accelerator by ensuring resource availability. Actively drives go/ no-go decisions with partners.
• Accelerator Project Management: Advises and ensures alignment with start-up partners of the accelerator. Manages all Digital Accelerator activities, programs and projects to ensure alignment with residents of the accelerator with internal and external stakeholders.
• Program Ownership: Conducts, designs, facilitates and translates program strategy into concrete program plans and actively aligns with relevant stakeholders and updates or adjusts the program risk/opportunity profiles and mitigation plans.
• Scientific Ownership and Steering Committee Updates: Must understand the scientific rationale of business challenges so can advise Bayer senior management and the Bayer Radiology Digital Accelerator steering committee on the of portfolio projects.
• Recruiting: Sets up digital footprint and positions Toronto Radiology Digital Accelerator within the Bayer Radiology Digital and AI network and keeps up to date on the latest innovation trends and developments in the relevant focus areas. Attracts talent by providing mentoring to a local start-up company and academic talent.
• Team Leadership/ Recruiting/ Meetings/ PM: Provides effective leadership including individual goal setting/performance reviews, managing the development of employees, recognizing and appreciating employee contributions, mitigating conflict and communication problems, planning and facilitating team activities, selecting personnel and motivating members of the functional area.
• Diversity: Supports workforce diversity, quality, and safety.

Who you are:

• MBA, Information Technology/ Computer Science degree, Ph.D. in Engineering, Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Pharmacology or any related Life Sciences specialty.
• 5 plus years of relevant experience in the Digital Healthcare AI, start-up, biopharma and/or innovation industry with experience in leading complex environments and projects.
• Experience working in a start-up or accelerator would be considered a plus.
• Preference would be given to individuals with an advanced degree, due to the high level of technical and professional maturity required to function effectively in a team leadership role where many of the team members are Director level peers with advanced scientific or medical degrees.
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management skills.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Strong influencing and communication skills
• Must be able to think on feet and analyze situations and make decisions quickly.
• Thorough understanding of Bayer\'s R&D areas, relevant new technologies, BD&L and innovation.
• Entrepreneurial and result oriented.
• Excited to co-create to find new solutions.
• Able to navigate different personality styles in a large, complex matrix organization in a professional manner.
• Demonstrated experience with the escalating project slips/risks/concerns to appropriate stakeholders.
• Self-starter with the ability to juggle multiple priorities and work independently.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to see across industries and networks to assemble teams and stimulate the exchange of ideas.
• Ability to make quick decisions taking into account both Bayer and external partner considerations.
• Ability to understand the scientific rational of the business challenges.
• Ability to judge and advise on the priority of the portfolio projects.

This position requires full vaccination against COVID-19.

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation and rewards package
• Collaborative, diverse and inclusive culture
• Career development and global opportunities
• Work-life flexibility programs such as flex hours, employee discounts, volunteer days, wellness, and other employee offerings

Bayer is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We embrace and encourage our employees\' differences and believe that our people are our most valuable asset. The collective sum of individual life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities that our employees invest in their work represents our culture, reputation, and Bayer\'s values and purpose.

Learn more about our values and purpose at:

All referral candidates must first be submitted via our internal referral system by a current Bayer employee in order to participate in the referral program. Once a Bayer employee has successfully referred you in our system, you will receive an automated email with instructions on how to complete your application.

Application Deadline: February 28, 2023

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Bayer welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Candidates participating in our selection process requiring accommodation due to a disability or medical need are encouraged to notify the Bayer representative that they will be meeting with to ensure appropriate arrangements can be made.

Location:

Canada : Ontario : Mississauga

Division:

Pharmaceuticals

Reference Code:

657061

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