Leaps Health Summer Associate/Intern

At Bayer, we are 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 do this with energy, curiosity, and dedication—learning from unique perspectives, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities, and redefining what is possible. Leaps by Bayer is Bayer’s strategic investment unit, focused on accelerating transformative life science breakthroughs that advance Bayer’s mission of “Health for All, Hunger for None.” The team invests in companies pursuing fundamental breakthroughs across major challenges in healthcare, including genetic disease, cardiometabolic disorders, cancer, women’s health, and other areas of high unmet medical need. Through minority equity investments and collaboration with leading entrepreneurs, scientists, clinicians, and innovators, Leaps aims to help shift key paradigms in healthcare and bring breakthrough technologies closer to patient impact. If you are hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds making a real difference, there is only one choice.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Join the Leaps Healthcare investment team as part of a focused internship program designed for MBA, PhD, MD, PharmD, or other advanced-degree candidates.

• Work with a high-performing team of investors, scientists, physicians, operators, and technologists focused on identifying and evaluating breakthrough healthcare and pharma investment opportunities;


• Combine scientific, clinical, commercial, and financial analysis to assess opportunities across therapeutics, platform technologies, precision medicine, digital health, and adjacent healthcare innovation areas;


• Report to the Head of Leaps by Bayer and work closely with the Director of Venture Investments;


• Complete two discrete, high-visibility projects focused on emerging healthcare and pharma investment themes, including market mapping, company screening, diligence, competitive analysis, and investment thesis development;


• Identify new investment opportunities and present findings, recommendations, and key risks to a panel of senior leadership at the end of the summer.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks candidates who possess the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in an MBA, PhD, MD, PharmD, MPH, or other relevant graduate degree program with emphasis in life sciences, medicine, biotechnology, healthcare, finance, strategy, or business;


• Strong interest in healthcare, pharma, biotechnology, and venture investing, with the ability to evaluate early-stage companies and emerging technology platforms;


• Foundational understanding of drug discovery and development, translational medicine, clinical development, regulatory pathways, reimbursement dynamics, or healthcare commercialization;


• Ability to conduct scientific, clinical, commercial, and financial diligence, including market sizing, competitive landscape assessment, KOL/expert interview synthesis, and identification of key development risks and value inflection points;


• Ability to build financial models, valuation analyses, pro forma capitalization tables, ownership scenarios, and venture-related analyses.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately between $22.75 to $47.75. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant).  Additional benefits may include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc (if relevant).  This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least March 19, 2027