# Leaps Crop Science Summer Associate/Intern

**Company**: Enabling Functions
**Location**: Cambridge, Massachusetts
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Leaps Crop Science Summer Associate/Intern

At Bayer, we are 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.

Join the Leaps Crop Science team as part of a focused internship program designed for MBA and PhD candidates.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

- Work with a high-performing team of MBAs, PhDs, and technologists focused on new ways of conducting business, engaging customers, modernizing platforms, and applying data and analytics;

- Couple business opportunities with breakthrough technologies to help identify unique opportunities within the organization;

- Report to the Head of Leaps by Bayer and work closely with and under the VP of Venture Investments;

- Complete two discrete, high-visibility projects focused on leveraging existing Bayer Crop Science assets across emerging fields including digital, biotech, chemistry, and agronomy;

- Identify new investment opportunities and present findings to a panel of senior leadership at the end of the summer.

Who you are: Bayer seeks candidates who possess the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

- Currently enrolled in an MBA or graduate degree program with emphasis in strategy, finance, agronomy, biology, or chemistry;

- In-depth study or experience with biology, chemistry, agronomy, foodtech, and/or digital agriculture;

- Ability to build financial models and pro forma capitalization tables, map resources, assess risks, and evaluate operational implications for agriculture businesses;

- Ability to compare current and future competitors;

- At least two years of experience with strategic planning, market research, financial modeling, or portfolio management;

- Strong quantitative and analytical skills and training;

- Demonstrated ability to reduce complex concepts and put innovation ideas into practice;

- Results-oriented mindset with a strong sense of urgency;

- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong ability to influence and motivate people through formal and informal channels;

- Experience working in a financial investment institution, such as venture capital or private equity;

- At least two years of additional experience in relevant strategic, financial, or innovation-focused roles.

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- market research
- financial modeling
- portfolio management
- biology
- chemistry
- agronomy
- foodtech
- digital agriculture

### Nice to have
- influence and motivation
- venture capital
- private equity

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