Executive Director, R&D Data Excellence Lead

Executive Director, RandD Data Excellence LeadThe RandD Data Excellence Lead drives the vision, strategy, and execution of data excellence across the RandD 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 RandD leadership, overseeing enterprise-aligned data infrastructure, data architecture, and standards to accelerate discovery, development, and decision-making. The role partners closely with enterprise IandT to ensure all data initiatives are scalable, compliant, and interoperable.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the RandD-wide data and analytics strategy aligned to RandD 2.0 transformation goals and PDandC objectives

Serve as a strategic advisor to RandD leadership on opportunities to improve pipeline productivity and operational efficiency using data

Establish and govern data standards, metadata management, lineage, and ontologies across RandD domains

Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance and facilitate its application across RandD data sets

Partner with IandT 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 and 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 RandD 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

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