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    Are you a graduate who loves working collaboratively across teams and loves to identify areas for improvements? Then a commercial sales and marketing graduate role with Bayer could be for you.

    The global chemical and pharmaceutical industry is constantly innovating in areas ranging from healthcare to agriculture. Every one of our projects aims to improve people’s lives, and at Bayer you will be empowered to turn your passion and ideas into solutions to the world’s problems.

    Who are we and what is it like to work for us?

    Our success depends upon understanding and meeting the needs of the people that we serve – patients, consumers and farmers.

    We bring together our people, partners and customers, placing innovation, sustainability and digital transformation at the heart of everything we do. Our products and solutions help us to deliver our vision of ‘Health for all, Hunger for none’. 

    We do this by

    • Preventing, alleviating and treating disease
    • Enabling consumers to take better care of their health and wellbeing
    • Ensuring the work has a reliable supply of high-quality food, feed and plant based raw materials

    The way we work and live has changed, and we understand that the expectations towards a global employer has also changed. Our employer branding evolves to reflect this shift in talent expectations so that we can successfully compete for the top talent. 

    What does the role involve?

    Everyone deserves the chance to live a fuller healthier life, and the mission of Bayer’s Consumer Health team is to use science to improve lives. So far, Bayer has helped billions of people, and will continue to do so until there is open access to safe, convenient daily health solutions for all. With over 170 brands in Bayer’s Consumer Health portfolio (such as CanestenTM, BeroccaTM, RennieTM & ClaritynTM), the team strives to empower people to manage their health needs across a variety of areas, including dermatology, nutritional supplements, digestive health, and allergy care.

    This role will sit within the Consumer Health division, working across Sales and Marketing, with a 9-month rotation within each team. You will be undertaking a wide variety of tasks across both functions, flexing your activities according to business needs and your skillset and interests. The role will require lots of collaborative work across different teams, and will rely on your ability to quickly understand different stakeholder needs. You will work with different platforms to understand business trends, but primarily you will be liaising with internal and external teams to drive projects and provide efficient and data-driven analysis. Day-to-day tasks might include:

    • Supporting marketing and medical teams on digital projects for Bayer customers (such as chatbots, online symptom checkers etc.)
    • Using platforms and dashboards, such as google analytics and sales trackers, to utilise data and identify areas for improvement.
    • Liaising with key customers and suppliers to understand their sale processes (such as online, physical store and quick commerce) and ensure Bayer’s offering is in line with these.
    • Supporting key account managers to work with customers to develop new ‘routes to market’, build relationships and improve day to day operations.
    • Supporting digital teams to manage bank of digital assets.
    • Liaising with creative agencies and other partners to help create consistent and effective content.

    Who are we looking for?

    Ultimately, we are looking for authentic personalities, who are able to work fast in changing environments and collaborate across the company to solve business problems. For this role specifically, we are looking for someone who is:

    • A final year student/graduate of a bachelor’s (or higher) degree in any field (on track/achieved a 2:2 or above)
    • Flexible, able to adapt to different working styles and manage competing projects.
    • A great communicator, able to convey ideas from different people clearly and succinctly.
    • Data-literate, comfortable working with numbers and identifying trends.
    • Driven, keen to take on more responsibility within the company and grow within the role.
    • Emotionally intelligent, able to understand the sentiment behind different communications and relay this to different stakeholders.
    • Inquisitive and eager to learn more about the nuances of pharmacology and learn new skills and processes to grow within the role.
    • A team player, able to work well with different departments across the business.

    What are the next steps?

    There are 3 stages to the assessment process: 1) Please follow the link to answer a few questions and submit your application before 11:59pm on Sunday 14th January 2024. 2) If successful, you will be invited to a telephone interview with a member of our team. 3) Finally, if you are successful from the telephone interview, you will be invited to an assessment centre for this role, which will be held in February (exact dates TBC).