Leaps Summer Associate Intern - Bayer Corporation

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Leaps Summer Associate Intern  

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

We are seeking a Summer Intern within our Leaps Crop Science team. As part of a

focused internship program aimed at MBAs and PhDs, you will be joining a team of high-

performing MBAs, PhDs and technologists that is constantly looking for new ways of conducting

business, engaging our customers, modernizing our platforms and applying data and analytics.

The ability to couple business opportunities with breakthrough technologies lends itself to a

unique opportunity within our organization. Reporting to the Director of Venture Investments for

Leaps, you will be assigned two discrete, high-visibility projects focused on leveraging existing

Bayer Crop Science assets to look into new emerging fields of digital, biotech, chemistry, and

agronomy to identify new investment opportunities to be presented to a panel of senior

leadership at the end of the summer.

You will also be assigned a senior management-mentor in Global Strategy, and will work

collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders across Climate Corp, R&D, supply chain,

customer operation and customer care to evaluate internal areas of disruption through external

investment. You are expected to challenge the status quo, reimagine business processes

wearing the lenses of a disruptive innovator. To be successful, you will develop relationships

with a wide range of decision makers, technologists and innovators to build use cases and new

portfolio opportunities.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in an MBA or a graduate degree with emphasis in strategy, finance, agronomy, biology, or chemistry;
• In-depth study or experience with biology, chemistry, agronomy, foodtech and/or digital agriculture;
• Build financial models, pro forma cap tables, map out resources, risks and operational implications for agriculture business and enable comparisons to current and future competitors;
• 2+ years’ experience with strategic planning, market research, financial modeling or portfolio management, required;
• Strong quantitative analytical skills and training;
• Demonstrated ability in reducing complex concepts and putting innovation ideas to practice;
• Results-oriented with a strong sense of urgency;
• Excellent communication skills: written, verbal and presentation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong ability to influence and motivate people through formal & informal channels;

• Experience working in a financial investment institution (VC, private equity, etc);

• 2+ years with a top-tier management consulting or financial services firm;

• Knowledge and experience of intellectual property .