Senior Product Manager – PRO Risk and Sustainability
Join Bayer in shaping a future where health for all and hunger for none are achievable. This role invites candidates who want to build a meaningful career in a community of diverse, brilliant minds.
Core Responsibilities
- Strategic Vision & Alignment: Set the product’s strategic vision, place the customer at the center, and ensure team priorities support business outcomes across product, technical, and enabling functions.
- Product Backlog Management: Prioritize squad work to realize the vision and align strategy.
- Execution and Accountability: Resolve impediments, manage technical debt and risk, drive continuous improvement, facilitate communication between unit leads, platform lead, and digital leads, and coordinate delivery to meet company strategy, commitments, and goals.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Accountable for product success from conception to decommissioning.
- Identify domain needs and develop/validate product concepts.
- Build a business case for the product.
- Oversee product build and launch; ensure availability, stability, and compliance.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (product development, marketing, finance, legal, manufacturing, operations, sales).
- Drive agile best practices for delivery and continuous planning (e.g., sprint planning).
- Co‑create user stories aligned with backlog prioritization.
- Conduct market opportunity identification, competitive analysis, sales enablement, and monitor domain performance.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Identify key stakeholder groups.
- Balance strong opinions to deliver value.
- Build trust by understanding and meeting stakeholder needs.
Product Strategy
- Provide strategic leadership with end‑to‑end ownership of products.
- Plan and optimize capabilities to achieve business outcomes efficiently.
- Apply strong strategic planning, decision‑making, and influencing skills.
Product Discovery & Delivery
- Create comprehensive product roadmaps to clarify user needs and requirements.
- Track and report progress against 90‑day outcomes and overall product health.
- Plan and manage product delivery while streamlining the backlog.
- Monitor user feedback and metrics to enhance user experience and business value.
- Leverage Design Thinking methodology for usability, feasibility, business fit, and value testing.
People & Collaboration
- Communicate and collaborate proactively with product users and stakeholders.
- Foster effective cross‑functional collaboration for valuable product delivery.
- Maintain strong relationships with colleagues in product management and engineering.
- Mentor junior product managers to improve management and agile practices.
Who You Are
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or minimum 4 years of equivalent practical experience.
Professional Experience:
- 5+ years as a Product Manager.
- 5+ years with procurement processes, supplier management, risk and sustainability, supplier performance, and supplier relationship management.
- 2+ years with Agile and DevOps practices.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Product management expertise.
- Technology enablement in procurement (supplier management, risk, sustainability, lifecycle, relationship).
- Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Team collaboration skills.
- Deep understanding of SDLC and modern development practices.
Preferred
- End‑to‑end procurement lifecycle experience (Master Data, Buying, Payments) with SAP ECC, SAP Ariba, Esker.
- Cloud proficiency (Databricks, Azure Storage) and integrations via MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services (API Management).
- Data analysis and reporting skills to drive product decisions.
- Leadership through influence across cross‑functional teams.
- Design Thinking, user‑centered design, and user analysis experience.
- Management of initiatives against key metrics.
- Strong analytical, management, and organizational skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Experience building product vision, roadmap, strategy, and competitive analysis.
- Proven track record delivering digital solutions in a complex global environment.
- Strategic planning and decision‑making skills with adaptability to research and industry trends.
- Ability to measure and communicate business value of proposals and deliverables.
You feel you do not meet all criteria we are looking for? That doesn’t mean you aren’t the right fit for the role. Apply with confidence – we value potential over perfection!
What We Offer
- Flexible hybrid work model.
- Modern workplace in Warsaw.
- Career development, 360° feedback, and mentoring programmes.
- Access to professional development tools, training, and conferences.
- Company bonus & reward structure.
- Increased tax‑deductible costs for authors of copyrighted works.
- VIP medical care package (including dental & mental health).
- Life & travel insurance.
- Pension plan.
- Co‑financed sport card – FitProfit.
- Office meal subsidy.
- Budget for home office setup & maintenance.
- Access to a company game room with table tennis, soccer table, Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles, and massage chairs.
- Tailored relocation support to Warsaw when needed.
- Please send your CV in English.
Work Location
Warsaw, Al. Jerozolimskie 158
Your Application
Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.
Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request needed accommodations.
Bayer offers the possibility of working in a hybrid model to support work‑life balance. Negotiations for the hybrid model are discussed with the manager.
Bayer respects and applies the Whistleblower Act in Poland.
Location: Poland – Mazowieckie – Warsaw
Division: Enterprise Enablement
Reference Code: 859089
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Product Management and Marketing
Industries
- Chemical Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, and Biotechnology Research
