Executive Director, R&D Data Excellence Lead

CSL Behring • TRAFFIC • England, Not Specified, United Kingdom • 19h ago

The Position:

The R&D Data Excellence Lead drives the vision, strategy, and execution of data excellence across the R&D organization. This role ensures that data is standardized, governed, and leveraged for advanced insights across scientific, clinical, safety, and regulatory domains. The role serves as a strategic advisor to R&D leadership, overseeing enterprise-aligned data infrastructure, data architecture, and standards to accelerate discovery, development, and decision-making. The role partners closely with enterprise I&T to ensure all data initiatives are scalable, compliant, and interoperable.

Responsibilities:

Define and execute the R&D-wide data and analytics strategy aligned to R&D 2.0 transformation goals and PD&C objectives
Serve as a strategic advisor to R&D leadership on opportunities to improve pipeline productivity and operational efficiency using data
Establish and govern data standards, metadata management, lineage, and ontologies across R&D domains
Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance and facilitate its application across R&D data sets
Partner with I&T to design and maintain scalable, secure, and interoperable data platforms
Enable integration of diverse data types including clinical, real-world data, omics, imaging, and digital biomarkers
Collaborate with Digital Business Partners and Analytics teams to ensure data readiness and accessibility for advanced analytics
Foster cross-functional data alignment across clinical, safety, regulatory, and research domains
Lead and develop a high-performing team of data stewards, scientists, and architects
Engage external partners, consortia, and regulatory bodies to influence and align with industry data innovation

Education & Requirements:

Advanced degree (MS, PhD, or equivalent) in Data Science, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
10+ years of data strategy and analytics experience in life sciences industry, with 5+ years in a leadership capacity.
Strong knowledge of R&D processes, including discovery, translational, clinical development, and regulatory submissions
Proven experience in enterprise data governance, architecture, and platform design in GxP environments.
Familiarity with AI/ML enablement, though not focused on algorithm development.
Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and change leadership skills.
Expertise with modern data stack: cloud platforms, data lakes, FAIR principles, and standards like CDISC, HL7/FHIR

Our Benefits

CSL employees that work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits effective day 1. We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. CSL offers resources and benefits, from health care to financial protection, so you can focus on doing work that matters. Our benefits are designed to support the needs of our employees at every stage of their life. Whether you are considering starting a family, need help paying for emergency back up care or summer camp, looking for mental health resources, planning for your financial future, or supporting your favorite charity with a matching contribution, CSL has many benefits to help achieve your goals.

Please take the time to review our benefits site to see what's available to you as a CSL employee.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global leader in developing and delivering high-quality medicines that treat people with rare and serious diseases. Our treatments offer promise for people in more than 100 countries living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. Learn more about CSL Behring .

We want CSL to reflect the world around us

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future. Learn more Inclusion and Belonging CSL .

Do work that matters at CSL Behring!

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