# Director Scientific Competitive Intelligence & Insights - Oncology

**Company**: Bayer
**Location**: Berlin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 109,800€ - 138,500€ per year
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Healthcare
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152051

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## Description

As the Director of Scientific Competitive Intelligence & Insights, you are the driving force transforming complex scientific and competitive data into strategic recommendations for our global oncology portfolio.

Your analysis and predictions directly shape R&D and portfolio decisions, helping to advance innovative therapies for patients worldwide.

This role is part of the R&D Scientific & Competitive Intelligence team and offers you the opportunity to act as a visionary and catalyst for strategic decisions.

**YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

- Generate forward-looking, strategic insights into competitors, pipelines, and market dynamics, advising global product teams across the entire R&D value chain in Oncology

- Translate complex scientific and competitor information into actionable recommendations for portfolio, investment, and licensing decisions

- Identify opportunities, risks, and disruption signals (e.g., breakthrough therapies, patent cliffs) and provide proactive forecasts on competitor activities

- Conduct deep analyses of competitor pipelines, clinical trials, and technologies, developing competitive landscapes, scenario forecasts, and SWOT analyses

- Support strategic decisions by delivering ready executive insights and recommendations for governance meetings

- Leverage advanced digital and AI-based tools (e.g., perplexity) to accelerate data analysis and enable continuous monitoring

- Act as a key contact for internal stakeholders and present your results effectively up to senior leadership level

- Mentor and develop junior analysts and ensure the quality of CI outputs

**WHO YOU ARE**

- Hold a university degree, ideally PhD, MD, PharmD, or comparable in life sciences, complemented by long-term experience in the pharmaceutical industry, consulting, competitive intelligence, or strategy

- Bring substantial hands-on experience in oncology competitive intelligence, oncology R&D, or oncology portfolio strategy, with strong knowledge of key peers, emerging modalities, and major clinical and competitive trends

- Skilled in using AI and digital tools as well as in analyzing scientific and competitive data sources

- Strong analytical, investigative, and creative thinking skills, combined with decisiveness and agility

- A strong team player, highly motivated, and able to work under pressure

- Excellent communication, presentation, and networking skills and are confident in stakeholder management

- Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken

**WHAT WE OFFER**

- Competitive salary between 109,800€ and 138,500€ per year (full-time) plus a variable component and a global equity-based cash plan

- Flexible work models, including hybrid work and part-time arrangements

- Family-friendly benefits, including company daycare centers, support in finding childcare, and time off for the care of elderly or dependent family members

- Professional growth opportunities, including access to learning and development opportunities, training programs, and coaching and mentoring programs

- Health awareness and self-care measures, such as free health checks with the company doctor

- Inclusive work environment that welcomes and supports diversity

## Skills

### Required
- life sciences
- pharmaceutical industry
- competitive intelligence
- strategy
- oncology
- AI
- digital tools

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