About the position
Your role is devoted to Applied Behavioral Science, a discipline that we define in two parts: maintaining a focus on behavior as the outcome of interest and the application of the scientific process to developing interventions that change behavior.
This is a role for someone who is passionate about user research & experimentation as a key component of Applied Behavioral Science to drive business decisions.
This is a full-time position offering an exciting working environment in a rapidly growing team, competitive salary and great benefits.
The position requires collaboration with teams and partners based in Berlin and New York, hence preference for EST and CST time zones.
Residence based throughout the pandemic, residence based may be an option when the pandemic ends.
Relocation may be available for this role.
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The primary responsibilities of this role, Applied Behavioral Scientist – Health Concentration, are to:
- Use your expertise in Applied Behavioral Science to help create healthier short
– and long-term behaviors through the four phases of behavior science: - Behavioral Strategy: in collaboration with stakeholders, defining the specifics of the target population and desired outcome behavior, including how it will be measured.
- Behavioral Insights: leading the research that yields both quantitative and qualitative observations about the existing pressures that create behavior.
- Behavioral Design: assisting in the design of proposed interventions by ensuring they remain clearly connected to the behavioral insights and focused on the behavioral strategy.
- Behavioral Impact Evaluation: guiding appropriate experimentation of behavioral interventions to evaluate to what extent they modify the existing rates of the pre-defined behavioral outcomes.
- Use your depth of knowledge to help others broaden theirs by facilitating workshops, creating clear, replicable processes to enhance our organization understanding of evidence-based health behavior change.
- Actively learn from your colleagues, including clinicians, design researchers and strategists, and business leaders, to broaden your own cross-disciplinary knowledge.
- Act as the accountable owner of behavioral science related to methodologies like CBT and ACT, as well as health and wellness topic areas like exercise, diet, sleep, stress and medication adherence.
WHO YOU ARE
Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values (leadership, integrity, flexibility and efficiency).
More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Psychology, Behavioral Science, or a related field
- At least 4 years of experience in applying Behavioral Science expertise to the process of designing new digital solutions, as part of product development team
- At least 2 years of experience in digital health/therapeutics, biotech/pharma (commercial) setting;
- Previous experience in Clinical Psychology applying CBT or other psychological therapies.
- Demonstrated competency as a generalist in both qualitative and quantitative methods; you should be able to facilitate a user interview by yourself and run basic inferential statistics like as correlations and simple T-Tests;
- Working knowledge of experimental methods, with an emphasis on the tradeoffs between certainty and resources like time and budget;
- A history of working with both business and clinical stakeholders in entrepreneurial, improvement-focused settings.
- Strong communication skills, problem solving in a creative manner are essential.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and other psychological interventions applied to different populations and conditions in digital environments.
- Prior experience in regulated environments.
Your application
Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs.
If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and you have the “Passion to Innovate” and the “Power to Change”, we encourage you to apply now.
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.
IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL US CANDIDATES: On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six point COVID-19 action plan.
As follow up to the initial announcement, the government has shared more details about the federal contractor guidance, including that colleagues who work for businesses that perform certain federal contracts are required to be fully vaccinated by Dec.
8, 2021.
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