Global Director Market Data & AI

At Bayer, we're visionaries driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and strive for a world where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is a reality.

As Global Director Market Data & AI, you'll play a strategic leadership role with a dual mandate: globally shaping market data as a critical enterprise asset, and locally translating data and AI strategy into scalable business impact across multiple priority markets, with the U.S. and Canada as core markets.

Responsibilities:

Global Responsibilities:

• Define the global vision, roadmap, and success measures for market data, including acquisition, governance, activation, and value realization.
• Enforce global governance standards, taxonomies, data policies, and quality frameworks across the full data lifecycle.
• Own the global market data quality and enrichment strategy, including standards, matching algorithms, and scoring models.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design global-to-local data flows, integration models, and activation strategies.
• Establish and coordinate a global network of Data Owners and Business Data Stewards.
• Co-shape the Master Data Strategy, ensuring Market Data aligns with Product, Customer, and Consumer master domains.
• Ensure Market Data is AI-ready by design, with robust quality, consistent structures, and documented lineage.

Multi-Market Responsibilities:

• Define and execute a multi-market data and AI roadmap aligned with commercial priorities.
• Translate global data domain strategies into effective market execution.
• Identify, prioritize, and lead data and AI initiatives that deliver measurable business value.
• Work backwards from priority market outcomes to redesign data-enabled and AI-supported processes.
• Integrate process design, information architecture, data architecture, and user experience considerations.
• Oversee governance, management, and quality for procured and internal data assets.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in business, economics, data science, statistics, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Business Data Domain Owner with end-to-end accountability for domain strategy, governance, data quality, priorities, and business alignment.
• Experience managing market data vendors, budgets, contract negotiations, and license optimization.
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks, data quality controls, and their practical application.
• Track record of translating business outcomes into analytics, automation, and AI use cases.
• Practical understanding of responsible AI principles, data privacy, and governance requirements.

Benefits:

• Salary between $173,280 - $259,920.
• Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission.
• Health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.