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Lead Portfolio Manager

The Lead Portfolio Manager role is key in transforming our core operating principles into action for Platforms delivering technology-enabled offerings. These include promoting transparency and collaboration between IT/CSF and business outcomes to create an environment of trust and collaboration; identifying target outcomes and developing end-to-end cybersecurity practices that are aligned with the business value chain; planning, developing, and running processes, systems, and operations for speed and simplicity; supporting and enabling decision-making as close as possible to the work and desired outcomes; and assisting in the development of a skill-based organization that encourages fluidity of talents across different teams and emphasizes higher quality outcomes.

As a Lead Portfolio Manager, you are highly organized and drive implementation and continuous improvement of the skills, behaviors, and practices to activate these principles in the context of a Platform focused on cybersecurity assurance and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). You can work autonomously and in team settings, where you apply a business-first mindset to cybersecurity activities. You have a cross-domain scope and can perform tasks across technical and non-technical dimensions.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Plan and monitor financial portfolio;

+ Develop business cases and cost estimates for initiatives, maintain a rolling portfolio plan, run regularly scheduled portfolio reviews with Finance and product leads, monitor spend vs plan and re-prioritize based on outcomes;Identify and apply leading practices;

+ Scan industry GRC and cybersecurity trends and internal performance gaps; run pilots (e.g., platform patterns, CI/CD, metrics-driven product testing); create and maintain playbooks, toolkits, and other resources to support programmatic and operational activities;

+ Roadmap maintenance and execution;

+ Maintain a single source-of-truth roadmap in line with Platform strategy, run regular roadmap reviews with stakeholders, update priorities for new technical requirements or data, define release plans and milestone ownership;

+ Requirements management and traceability;

+ Elicit and document business/technical requirements (user stories, acceptance criteria), maintain a prioritized backlog and traceability matrix (e.g., requirements → development → testing → releases), facilitate backlog grooming and change control processes;

+ Business process development and engineering;

+ Map current-state processes, identify waste and automation opportunities, design future-state processes and runbooks, implement automation (workflows, approvals, observability), validate via pilot and scale;

+ Plan and execute quarterly development cycles;

+ Facilitate quarterly planning (e.g., program increments/epics) for Agile development cycles, align sprint plans to requirements and target outcomes, and track and unblock cross-team dependencies;

+ Support ongoing performance reporting;

+ Facilitate clear and effective reporting and other communications between Platform teams, provide updates on status, changes, risks etc.; collect and monitor performance metrics in line with Platform strategy and roadmap execution.

+ The primary location for this role is Creve Coeur, MO.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

+ Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience;

+ At least10 years of relevant IT industry or equivalent experience;

+ Experience leading/guiding people and/or project level leadership experience;

+ At least 5 years of experience working with or leading agile teams and experience with agile tools and techniques;

+ Proven ability to build rapport and trust with employees at all levels, including senior leadership teams;

+ High degree of coaching and mentorship experience;

+ Highly organized.

This posting will be available for application until at least 1/29/2026.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $123,760.00 - $185,640.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant).

Other benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. If selected for this role, the offer may vary based on market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.

**Location:** United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur

**Division:** Enabling Functions

**Reference Code:** 860672

Contact Us

**Email:** [email protected]