Executive Director, R&D Data Excellence Lead...

The Position:

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

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.
  
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