The Position

Are you passionate about bringing innovation to our equine customers to improve the lives of horses and the people who love them? We’re seeking for a customer focused, results driven business leader to join our global equine business to continue building and leading a customer centric innovation roadmap in line with the business segment strategy.

This is an important leadership position within the global equine team. You will foster cross-functional collaboration together with R&D, Supply, Regions and Countries and move Innovation/Business Development projects forward. You will lead the commercial perspective of projects, support long-term pipeline forecasting, and manage strategic business model innovation initiatives.

If you believe that this is the next career move for you, we look forward to receiving your dedicated application and getting to know you further!

This position has a hybrid setup with at least three days per week on site.

Tasks & responsibilities

• In this role, you will work closely with Global Head Equine GSM, Equine Franchise Managers and Technical Service Managers to ensure that a consistent overall innovation roadmap is put together and implemented in line with Business Segment strategy.
• As part of this you will be responsible for driving the GSM input on BD&L and R&D potential pipeline opportunities in alignment with the Business Segment Strategy.
• Your lateral leadership skills will help you to foster cross-functional collaboration together with R&D, Supply, Regions and Countries teams for internal innovation and BD&L projects.
• You will champion the Global Strategic Marketing (GSM) needs during project development management within project teams, leading commercial perspective in projects and drive the GSM input into appropriate prioritization for research projects within sub-franchise portfolio including project status tracking and stakeholder communications.
• You will lead commercial input into product profiles from strategic and business perspectives.
• Finally, in close collaboration with Global Head Equine GSM and franchise managers, you will derive global forecasting assumptions and review / align them with key countries as needed.

Requirements

• Master degree in the field of Veterinary science or similar required.
• Highly specialized knowledge and experience in the field of equine health with a deep understanding of the therapeutic and veterinary science areas and customer needs in this field
• Strong lateral leadership skills to foster cross-functional work
• Ability to communicate decisions to senior stakeholders in an international/cross-cultural matrix environment
• Strong financial and business acumen
• Strong strategic and analytical capabilities
• Excellent knowledge of English, further languages of advantage

As part of our commitment to transparency and fairness, salary information will be shared during the recruitment process. We also offer a comprehensive benefits and wellbeing package.

Applications from persons with severe disabilities are warmly welcomed. In cases of equal qualifications, such applicants will be given preferential consideration in the selection process. 

Ready to contact us?

If you have any questions about the job posting or process - please contact our HR Direct Team, Tel: +49 (0) 6132 77-3330 or via mail: hr.de@boehringer-ingelheim.com

Recruitment process:

Step 1: Online application - The job posting is presumably online until November 10, 2026. We reserve the right to take the posting offline beforehand. Applications up to October 28, 2026 are guaranteed to be considered.
Step 2: Virtual meeting in the period from end of October until mid of November 2026
Step 3: On-site interviews beginning end of November 2026