Pharmaceutical Sciences, Technology and Innovation Lead; Sr. Director

Position: Pharmaceutical Sciences, Technology and Innovation Lead (Sr. Director)
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Job Description

Objectives/

Purpose:

* This is a senior business, scientific, and technology leadership role in Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D, accountable for shaping and maintaining an integrated Pharm Sci technology and innovation strategy and translating it into a prioritized multi-year roadmap aligned to business priorities, lifecycle needs, and enterprise objectives.

* The role provides leadership across CMC technology innovation, platform strategy, and implementation, ensuring that critical technology capabilities, standard platforms, and innovation opportunities are advanced in a coordinated, scalable, compliant, and value-focused manner across Pharm Sci.

* The role serves as the integration point across Pharm Sci technical functions, enterprise enabling functions (e.g. DD&T), and external partners to connect innovation, technology development, standardization, and deployment into a coherent portfolio that supports pipeline progression, industrialization, lifecycle robustness, and long-term capability build.

* Working closely with senior stakeholders within and beyond the Pharm Sci leadership team, the role ensures that technology and innovation strategies are anchored in business outcomes and supported by fit-for-purpose governance, cross-functional collaboration, strong network partnerships, and measurable adoption and value realization.

Accountabilities:

* Maintain the integrated Pharm Sci technology and innovation strategy across key CMC domains (e.g., DS/DP processing, analytical/PAT/APC, device and packaging technologies, platform capabilities, digital-enabled workflows, and knowledge/data-enabling capabilities) and translate it into a prioritized multi-year roadmap aligned to business priorities and lifecycle milestones.

* Drive the Pharm Sci technology portfolio from early opportunity identification and external/internal scouting through prioritization, piloting, maturation, standardization, implementation, scale-up, and lifecycle adoption, ensuring innovation efforts are connected to practical business value and sustainable deployment.

* Act as the primary Pharm Sci integrator across technical functions, enterprise enabling teams (e.g. DD&T), and delivery partners to ensure that technology solutions, digital enablers, and data capabilities are aligned to business needs, scalable, compliant, and sustainable.

* Establish and run cross-functional governance for Pharm Sci technology and innovation initiatives, including intake, prioritization, resource and investment planning, dependency management, decision cadence, and escalation with clear options and trade-offs.

* Provide leadership for implementation aspects of CMC innovation by connecting scientific opportunity with operational readiness, industrialization requirements, manufacturability, platform deployment, and business adoption across the development lifecycle.

* Drive portfolio performance management across technology and innovation initiatives by defining success metrics, tracking value realization, monitoring business outcomes (e.g., speed, robustness, right-first-time, risk reduction, productivity, readiness, quality, sustainability), and integrating reporting into the broader performance management framework.

* Ensure interface alignment across Research/CMC, development, manufacturing, quality/compliance, regulatory, and external partners so that innovation and technology solutions are feasible, scalable, inspection-ready, and supportive of lifecycle robustness.

* Build and maintain a strong internal and external collaboration network across vendors, academia, consortia, peer companies, and enterprise partners, and translate these relationships into actionable partnership models, technology choices, capability build, and strategic opportunities for Pharm Sci.

* Lead change management, readiness, and adoption at scale in close collaboration with Pharm Sci stakeholders, including role-based learning pathways, capability uplift, implementation support, and measurable adoption outcomes for standardized technologies and platforms.

* Support Pharm Sci functional leaders by providing common frameworks, playbooks, and decision tools for technology selection, readiness, scalability, manufacturability, regulatory risk, lifecycle cost, sustainability impact, implementation planning, and value realization.

Core Elements Related to this Role:

* Strategic leadership: sets direction, governance, and portfolio discipline, while also ensuring critical CMC innovation and platform choices are translated into practical implementation and scaled use

* Balanced innovation and technology management: connects scouting, piloting,…