# Executive Director, Field Decision Intel **Company**: Bayer **Location**: Whippany, NJ **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $220,240 - $330,360 **Category**: IT **Industry**: Healthcare **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152051 **Apply**: https://talent.bayer.com/careers/job/562949978438095?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_687b5635-26b ## Description 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 an Executive Director, Field Decision Intelligence, you will be a strategic leader responsible for advancing AI-enabled analytics, decision intelligence, and customer engagement effectiveness across the Customer Engagement organization. **Field Decision Intelligence Leadership & AI Analytics Strategy** - Lead the vision, strategy, and evolution of AI-enabled customer engagement analytics and decision intelligence capabilities. - Establish the strategic framework for governing, interpreting, and operationalizing AI-generated analytics, recommendations, and coaching insights. - Serve as a senior thought partner to Customer Engagement leadership on AI and analytics shaping field decision making. - Translate enterprise and brand objectives into AI-enabled analytical approaches driving measurable business outcomes. - Lead field analytics for a priority brand, serving as player/coach to reshape capabilities and way of working of the field analytics team. **AI Agent Governance, QA/QC & Continuous Improvement** - Ensure AI-enabled insights, recommendations, and agentic capabilities are trusted, actionable, and scalable. - Establish governance, QA/QC processes, monitoring frameworks, and corrective action mechanisms. - Define standards for insight quality, recommendation relevance, explainability, consistency, and business value. - Identify emerging AI capabilities and evolve analytics operating models. **Knowledge Curation & Analytical Frameworks** - Build and maintain a curated knowledge base of critical business questions, analytical methodologies, decision frameworks, prompting approaches, and best practices. - Develop repeatable frameworks translating AI-generated outputs into actionable field guidance and measurable business outcomes. - Codify how business questions should be asked, framed, and answered. - Establish standards for structuring, delivering, and consuming insights. **Field Co-Creation & Adoption** - Partner with field leaders to co-create analytical approaches, decision-support models, and coaching strategies. - Enable Customer Engagement leaders to leverage AI-enabled analytics, coaching recommendations, and decision-support capabilities. - Drive best-practice sharing and scaling of successful AI-enabled decision approaches. - Establish structured review processes with Customer Engagement leadership and field stakeholders. **Analytics & Insights Delivery** - Serve as player/coach on the team delivering customer engagement analytics, opportunity identification, performance measurement, predictive analytics, and AI-driven recommendations. - Deliver proactive insights enabling leadership and field teams to make better decisions faster. - Partner with Field Operations, Targeting, and Segmentation teams to evaluate targeting approaches, customer engagement strategies, and resource deployment. **Cross-Functional Partnership** - Partner closely with Customer Engagement Leadership, Field Operations & Field Effectiveness, Targeting & Segmentation, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Learning & Development, Digital Product Teams, Data Science & AI, Knowledge Management Finance. **Organizational Leadership & Talent Development** - Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team of AI-fluent analysts, decision scientists, and analytics consultants. - Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, customer focus, and continuous improvement. - Establish clear performance expectations and development pathways. - Build organizational capabilities supporting the evolving needs of an AI-enabled commercial organization. **Success Measures** - Improve adoption and utilization of AI-enabled analytics tools and recommendations. - Demonstrate measurable improvement in the quality, accuracy, and actionability of AI-generated insights. - Establish governance and QA/QC standards for AI analytics capabilities. - Increase the speed and effectiveness of insight-to-action decision cycles. - Improve field confidence and engagement with AI-enabled decision support. - Build a scalable knowledge framework supporting AI-driven coaching and decision making. - Deliver measurable ROI from AI-enabled analytics investments. - Develop a high-performing, future-ready analytics team. - Establish AI Analytics & Decision Intelligence as a differentiated strategic capability. **Requirements** - Minimum of a Bachelor's degree. - High leadership experience in commercial analytics, decision intelligence, data science, AI-enabled analytics, or related functions. - Pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or life sciences experience. - Demonstrated experience applying AI, advanced analytics, machine learning, or agentic systems to commercial decision making, customer engagement, or business transformation. - Experience leading AI-enabled analytics teams, products, or strategic transformation initiatives. - Deep understanding of customer engagement, commercial execution, and business analytics. - Demonstrated success leading large, cross-functional teams. - Strong executive communication and influencing skills. - Proven ability to drive organizational change and transformation. ## Skills ### Required - AI - analytics - decision intelligence - data science - machine learning - leadership - communication - influencing ### Nice to have - advanced degree - 12+ years of leadership experience - governance - QA/QC - evaluation frameworks - predictive analytics - field intelligence - customer engagement technologies --- Source: [Apply at talent.bayer.com](https://talent.bayer.com/careers/job/562949978438095?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)