Senior Benefits Risk Management Lead

Overview

As a Pharmacovigilance leader at Bayer, you will steer benefit-risk management for key products and guide cross-functional safety teams. You’ll monitor safety signals, ensure high-quality safety communications, and support regulatory submissions. Your leadership will drive strategic PV initiatives, lifecycle safety, and continuous improvement across PV functions. This role offers impact in a fast-paced, collaborative environment aligned with Bayer’s mission to improve health outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• base salary plus annual bonus
• Long Term Incentive Bonus
• Car Benefit
• 28 days annual leave plus holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Pension scheme

Responsibilities

• Lead product groups in ongoing Benefits Risk Management and BRM activities for strategically important products
• Monitor and manage product safety risk profiles with Safety Management and BRM teams
• Identify, prioritize, and analyze clinical safety signals; lead patient BRM processes via Safety Management Teams
• Ensure risk communication and escalation to PV Management and committees (SRC, GSC, PET, GLC)
• Prepare high-quality aggregate reports and regulatory responses; ensure appropriate labeling of safety information
• Oversee due diligence activities and ensure submission quality for single cases and signal detection
• Provide strategic leadership for the product group and input to development and lifecycle management
• Plan and deploy resources against project priorities and contribute to budgeting and cost controls
• Onboard, train, and develop team members; foster continuous improvement across PV
• Support PV strategic decisions, process improvements, and consistency across Therapeutic Groups
• Maintain relationships with Bayer Pharma functions to implement PV standards
• Ensure a collaborative, cross-functional approach to safety standards and decision making

Key requirements

• MD degree or equivalent (e.g., DO or MB)
• Long-term experience in Pharmaceutical/Lifesciences/Healthcare with strong pharmacovigilance background
• Direct interactions with major regulatory agencies
• Ability to interact with expert consultants and key opinion leaders
• Knowledge of epidemiology, statistics, and evidence-based medicine
• Proven leadership in a matrix organization
• Experience supporting clinical development and lifecycle management in PV

• Leadership in matrix environments
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Effective communication with regulators and stakeholders
• Pharmacovigilance and safety signal detection
• Benefit-risk assessment and risk management
• Regulatory reporting and labeling knowledge

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