Product Development Lead - Marketed Portfolio Core Business

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Product Development Lead - Marketed Portfolio Core Business

The Product Development Lead (PDL) is a key member of the Lifecycle Portfolio Team and the representative for all R&D/Development topics on the Portfolio Team for the CT and MRI modalities.

As a key member of the portfolio team, the PDL is contributing to overarching success of the marketed portfolio by closely collaborating with the Portfolio Team Lead and the other Portfolio Team members to ensure product readiness and availability, product reliability and performance, new feature requests and market extensions as well as supporting further strategic life cycle management efforts.

As the R&D Lead of the multi-functional Lifecycle Product Development Team, the PDL is driving the development aspects of the lifecycle activities for all products in the CT and MRI portfolio post DP6.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Product Development Lead, are to:

• Act as a VACC leader for the Marketed Portfolio Product Development Team. Be a role model for embracing and actively championing DSO operating model and DSO behaviors;

• Design and propose an integrated lifecycle product development strategy based on regulatory and commercial/consumer requirements/needs;

• Lead the global marketed portfolio product development team between Indianola, Rydalmere and India sites to define the scope, plan the program and execute on lifecycle activities;

• Ensures Portfolio Team agreement with the program development strategies. Develops and discusses alternative development scenarios with respect to risk, benefit, budget, and timelines;

• Conducts/contributes to periodic and systematic program reviews in order to improve efficiency of development as well as to strive for earlier identification of critical success factors and to facilitate portfolio analysis, risk management and decision making;

• Ensures timely and transparent and objective communications about program status and issues between the Product Development Team and the Product Team;

• Accountable for delivering programs on time, in budget and required quality:

• Drives and steers the implementation of the development strategy by ensuring resource and budget availability in close alignment with the relevant capability clusters;

• Proactively develops proposals to manage/mitigate/resolve risks for a program;

• Holds Product Development Team members responsible for committed timelines and budgets.;

• Manage performance of the Product Development Team and its members for achieving team and personal objectives of the program;

• Sets challenging individual program-related objectives based on the mission of the Product Team as well as the agreed short-, mid-, and long-term outcomes for and together with the team members and assesses team members performance to be able to provide input to performance evaluation and talent potential evaluation;

• Maintains motivation within the team: Fosters 'trust and transparency' within the team in order to optimize team functioning, and facilitate the surfacing of issues;

• For program-related activities, provides regular feedback to team member concerning their contribution to the team performance to target objectives;

• Actively seeks feedback from team members on his/her performance, and on how the team interactions/decisions/meetings could be improved.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

• BS degree in Life Sciences or Engineering;

• Knowledgeable in one or more areas of product development, including hardware and software;

• Proven track record across medical device development, regulatory approval and product launch as well as life cycle management;

• Proven entrepreneurial mindset and courage to constantly challenge ways of working and status quo, strives for continuous improvement;

• Strategic thinker with the ability to influence decision making, strong stakeholder management capabilities;

• Demonstrates strong leadership skills as well as interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to lead and manage a cross-functional team, along with problem solving and conflict resolution;

• Demonstrates high self-awareness as well as system awareness;

• Proactively asks for and gives feedback;

• Focuses on outcomes; defines and delivers highest pipeline-, team-, talent- and organizational-impact-outcomes;

• Collaborates with accountability; collaborates and holds each other accountable in and across teams;

• Acts, learns fast and evolves; works in 90-days cycles, applies learnings fast and continually develops;

• Creates impact by realizing authentic self and purpose, and includes others: respects differences, embraces inclusion and shows up as the best self;

• Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in medical device product development and/or program management;

• Experience in Radiology.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $ 177,600.00 - $266,400.00. 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 10/22/2026.

YOUR APPLICATION

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.

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Location: United States : Pennsylvania : Indianola

Division: Pharmaceuticals

Reference Code: 892765

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