Business Data & AI Lead

Global * Serve as the senior Data & AI leader for the assigned multi-market portfolio, contributing to enterprise-wide strategy and ensuring local priorities and market realities are reflected in global decisions. Architect and champion intelligent information flows, including semantic standards and data interpretation approaches that enable a responsive, insight-driven enterprise. Guide business units in defining key business outcomes and redesigning processes with an outcome-back, AI-native approach, ensuring that structured and unstructured data flows are connected effectively to support business value. Translate global data domain strategies across Market, Customer, eCommerce, Product, and Consumer into effective execution within focus markets, adapting governance frameworks, taxonomies, and standards to regional realities while maintaining enterprise consistency. Champion a data-as-an-asset and AI-first culture, driving adoption, literacy, and mindset change across business and functional teams. Drive strong governance, quality, and stewardship practices to ensure local and regional data is trusted, compliant, and ready for activation across commercial and digital use cases. Enable harmonized, high-quality, and activation-ready data across commercial, marketing, and digital teams to support better decision-making and operational excellence. Partner with global, regional, and local stakeholders to align data priorities, resolve issues, and accelerate the delivery of scalable data and AI capabilities. Support the design and operationalization of AI use cases by ensuring the availability of fit-for-purpose, semantically clear, and governed data foundations. Manage the complexity of multi-country data environments, including differing regulations, varying market maturity, fragmented ecosystems, and diverse external data providers. Help ensure that data investments across markets are coordinated, scalable, and aligned with enterprise objectives and standards. Build strong collaboration across business, digital, commercial, analytics, and data teams to strengthen execution and accelerate value creation. Provide strategic guidance and operational leadership in data governance, data quality improvement, and AI enablement across the assigned portfolio. Engage with external data providers and market stakeholders as needed to improve data quality, coverage, usability, and strategic alignment. Proven experience in data strategy, data governance, analytics, business intelligence, or AI enablement roles. Strong experience working across multi-market or regional environments, ideally within Latin America. Demonstrated ability to translate enterprise strategy into pragmatic local or regional execution. Experience working with complex data ecosystems, including multiple data sources, external providers, and varying data quality standards. Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business, digital, commercial, and technical teams. Experience leading or enabling data-driven transformation, governance programs, or AI-related initiatives. Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to engage senior leadership. Ability to operate strategically while maintaining strong execution focus. Experience in commercial, marketing, customer, product, consumer, or market data domains. Familiarity with regulated and fragmented market environments. Experience supporting or shaping AI-enabled products, use cases, or operating models. Knowledge of data stewardship, taxonomy management, semantic standards, and activation-ready data principles. Experience working with global and regional operating models in matrix organizations. Strategic thinking Execution excellence Data governance and quality leadership AI-first mindset Cross-functional collaboration Stakeholder management Change leadership Problem solving in complex environments Commercial acumen Regional leadership and coordination

Global life science company with pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and crop science divisions. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany.

bayer.com