{"id":3159468,"url":"https://alion.io/job/bayer-product-lead-strokethrombosis","title":"Product Lead - Stroke/Thrombosis","company":{"id":671164,"name":"Bayer","domain":"bayer.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/bayer-7","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":11,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Mississauga, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":167490,"max":217490,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":155132},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-23T15:38:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-23","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T11:30:08Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"At Bayer, we believe work should matter. Every day, our teams push toward a future where \"Health for all, Hunger for none\" is within reach, and every role, from the lab to the field to the boardroom, helps us get there. We give people the ownership to shape outcomes, the support to grow through new skills and experiences, and a global community where different perspectives are valued. If you want your work to count and the room to become your best, you'll find it here.\nProduct Lead - Stroke/Thrombosis\nReporting directly to the President & CEO of Bayer Inc., the Product Lead - Stroke/Thrombosis will lead a high-priority, cross-functional Product Squad and hold strategic, launch, and financial accountability for oral Factor XIa (FXIa) inhibitor in Canada.\nThe Product Lead will build and execute the Canadian launch strategy, subject to regulatory approval, ensuring market, customer, field, access, supply, and organizational readiness. This leader will translate customer and market insights into clear strategic choices, mobilize resources across functions, and establish an agile, high-performance culture that supports launch excellence and sustainable growth.\nBayer is committed to a flexible hybrid working environment. This is a vacant permanent position based out of Mississauga, ON\nWhat you will do:\n\nLaunch Strategy and Execution\nLead the end-to-end Canadian launch strategy, from pre-launch planning and market preparation through launch execution and early post-launch optimization.\nDevelop an integrated, multi-year launch roadmap with clear priorities, milestones, accountabilities, performance indicators, risks, and mitigation plans.\nTranslate the global brand strategy into a differentiated Canadian value proposition, positioning, segmentation, and customer-engagement plan.\nAnticipate clinical, access, policy, market, and competitive developments and adjust strategy accordingly.\nCross-Functional Leadership\nLead a cross-functional squad spanning Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Customer Engagement, Patient Support, Operations, Analytics, and other enabling functions.\nSet the strategic direction, clarify decision rights, remove barriers, and foster empowered, timely, and insight-led execution.\nApply the VACC leadership model-Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach-to build an inclusive, high-performing team with collective accountability.\nAlign Canadian priorities with global and regional stakeholders while representing local market and launch requirements.\nCustomer and Market Leadership\nServe as a senior ambassador for oral Factor XIa (FXIa) inhibitor and build trusted relationships with Canadian external experts, healthcare system stakeholders, advisory-board members, and relevant professional organizations.\nConvert market research, competitive intelligence, customer insights, and analytics into actionable priorities.\nPartner with Customer Engagement teams to ensure field colleagues have the strategy, capabilities, content, and insights required for effective execution across hospital and community settings.\nRepresent Bayer at relevant congresses, advisory forums, and external stakeholder meetings.\nFinancial and Resource Stewardship\nShare accountability for business and financial performance with the appropriate Customer Engagement and Product Operations leaders.\nDevelop robust business cases and secure the resources and capabilities required for launch.\nManage the brand budget with discipline and reallocate investment based on evidence, changing priorities, and anticipated impact.\nAgile, Digital, and Compliant Execution\nUse agile planning cycles to test, learn, prioritize, and respond quickly to changing customer and market needs.\nChampion digital-first, omnichannel engagement and modular content development.\nApply generative AI, predictive analytics, and emerging technologies responsibly to improve insight generation, planning, content operations, and customer experience.\nEnsure all plans and activities comply with Canadian regulatory, legal, privacy, pharmacovigilance, PAAB, and Innovative Medicines Canada requirements.\nEnsure all activities/events are conducted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, in accordance with Bayer Safety, compliance and Sustainability Policies.\nWho you are:\nBachelor’s degree in business, Science, or a related discipline; MBA or another relevant advanced degree is preferred.\nSignificant progressive pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience, including a minimum of 8 years of strategic leadership in Marketing, Sales, Market Access, or a related commercial function.\nRecent, successful Canadian pharmaceutical launch experience is required, ideally within the past five years, with meaningful leadership accountability across pre-launch strategy, market readiness, launch execution, and early post-launch optimization.\nCardiovascular, neurology, and/or hospital/institutional market experience is strongly preferred, including an understanding of hospital-based customer pathways, multidisciplinary stakeholders, formulary and access dynamics, and field execution in the hospital setting.\nProven experience leading a complex cross-functional brand or product team in a matrixed organization.\nDemonstrated ability to use customer insights, competitive intelligence, and analytics to shape strategy, investment, and execution.\nExperience engaging senior external experts, healthcare system stakeholders, and executive-level internal partners.\nLeadership Capabilities:\nLaunch leadership: Converts ambiguity into a focused strategy, integrated launch plan, and disciplined execution.\nStrategic foresight: Anticipates market shifts, competitor actions, policy developments, and organizational needs.\n\nEnterprise leadership: Connects functions and balances global direction with Canadian market realities.\nFinancial acumen: Demonstrates sound budget management, resource planning, business-case development, and performance oversight.\nCustomer centricity: Grounds decisions in patient, healthcare-professional, payer, and healthcare system insights.\nAgility and digital fluency: Leads through change and applies omnichannel, AI, and analytics capabilities effectively and responsibly.\nCollaborative in fluence: Builds trust, manages conflict constructively, challenges the status quo, and mobilizes stakeholders without relying on formal authority.\nResilience and judgment: Remains composed in a visible, fast-moving environment and makes sound decisions with incomplete information.\nSuccess Measures:\nCritical Canadian launch-readiness milestones are achieved on time and to the required quality.\nMarket, customer, field, access, supply, and organizational readiness support a successful launch.\nStrategy and investment choices are insight-led, differentiated, and supported by cross-functional alignment.\nThe squad demonstrates accountability, agility, inclusion, and strong execution.\nExternal stakeholder engagement generates insights that materially improve launch decisions and customer value.\nWhat we offer:\nCompetitive compensation and rewards package.\nCollaborative, diverse and inclusive culture.\nCareer development and global opportunities.\nWork-life flexibility programs such as flex hours, employee discounts, volunteer days, wellness, and other employee offerings.\nBayer is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences and believe that our people are our most valuable asset. The collective sum of individual life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities that our employees invest in their work represents our culture, reputation, and Bayer’s values and purpose.\nAll referral candidates must first be submitted via our internal referral system by a current Bayer employee in order to participate in the referral program. Once a Bayer employee has successfully referred you in our system, you will receive an automated email with instructions on how to complete your application.\nThe base salary range for this role is between $167,490 and $217,490. This compensation includes components such as base salary, vacation pay, public holiday pay, potential estimated overtime pay and paid statutory leaves of absence. Additional benefits may include insured benefits such as health care, vision, dental, disability, and contributory retirement savings plans, etc.\n\nThis role also provides the opportunity to earn additional performance-based compensation. If performance-based compensation is earned, the total compensation package may provide an opportunity to earn a Total Direct Compensation (TDC) range of $244,200 to $294,200. This TDC would include base salary and may also include items like bonuses (short-term and long-term incentives) and sales incentives. 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