Senior Director, Innovation & Business Transformation

The Senior Director, Innovation and Business Transformation provides strategic leadership for technology-enabled transformation across Medical Writing Science (MWS), harnessing digital, AI, machine learning, automation, analytics, and emerging technology capabilities to transform how the function operates and delivers scientific work. Partnering with MWS leaders and enterprise technology teams, the role identifies and prioritizes high-value opportunities, translates the MWS transformation vision into strategic priorities and executable initiatives, and influences functional and enterprise capability roadmaps.

The Senior Director champions innovative approaches across clinical regulatory document development, scientific and medical publications, knowledge management, and related scientific workflows while ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, architecture, and governance. The role advises leadership on transformation opportunities, investment priorities, organizational readiness, adoption, and value realization.

• Translate the MWS transformation vision and intended future state into strategic priorities, roadmaps, and executable initiatives.
• Anticipate external technology-enabling tools and industry trends and translate relevant developments into strategic opportunities for MWS.
• Lead strategy execution and operating effectiveness across Innovation and Business Transformation, recommending prioritization, sequencing, resource allocation, and investment decisions for MWS technology-enabled transformation initiatives
• Champion innovative solutions for knowledge management, data utilization, and end-to-end clinical regulatory document development and scientific and medical publication workflows.
• Advance transformation opportunities based on strategic relevance, scientific and business value, feasibility, risk, organizational readiness, sustainability, and enterprise alignment.
• Establish and lead governance for opportunity intake, evaluation and prioritization, responsible AI and risk assessment, transformation delivery, adoption, and value realization.
• Serve as a transformation partner between MWS and enterprise technology organizations, representing functional priorities and influencing enterprise capability, platform, and solution roadmaps.
• Maintain accountability for transformation outcomes and value realization, ensuring investments deliver measurable improvements in quality, scientific delivery, workforce capacity, user experience, compliance, and organizational effectiveness.
• Create the conditions for solutions to scale responsibly through reuse, common standards, sustainable support models, and alignment with enterprise platforms and architecture.
• Lead, coach, and develop leaders and teams, strengthening business transformation, change management, technology, and leadership capabilities across the organization.

• Extensive leadership experience in business transformation, digital innovation, AI strategy, advanced analytics, process reinvention, or technology-enabled operating-model change within a complex, regulated organization.
• Demonstrated success translating executive vision into transformation strategy, establishing strategic roadmaps and governance, prioritizing significant transformation investments, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of the life-sciences value chain and the application of AI, data, digital platforms, automation, analytics, and emerging technology to scientific and operational work.
• Ability to translate external technology and industry trends to practical, differentiated opportunities and strategic choices for a scientific function.
• Experience establishing governance and responsible AI approaches and leading organizational adoption, change, value-realization, and sustainable operating approaches.
• Proven people-leadership, including developing leaders, establishing decision rights and accountability, and building high-performing transformation teams.
• Exceptional communication, influence, strategic judgment, and organizational leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to operate effectively across business and technology organizations.

• 12 years of progressive experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, technology-enabled transformation, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of leadership experience building, leading, and…