Senior Manager - Ontologist​/Taxonomist

Senior Manager - Ontologist / Taxonomist

Company:
Norstella

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Date Posted:
Dec 3, 2025

Employment Type:

Full Time

Job : R-1613

At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life‑saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need. Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best‑in‑class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must‑have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision‑making. Together, via our market‑leading brands, we help our clients:

• Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle
• Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market
• MMIT – identify barrier to patient access
• Panalgo – turn data into insight faster
• The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting‑edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real‑world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.

This Senior Manager for Ontology / Taxonomy is a people leader position is part of the Content Strategy team within Norstella Content Operations. As a leader in the Data Governance team, the role will be instrumental in integrating our various product strands to enable our customers to easily search and navigate across our products and data solutions, and also enabling faster innovation within Norstella through clear standards and high‑quality linked data.

The role will include managing at least two direct reports, so line management experience is essential.

This position will see the Ontology team pivot from 18 month of work with significant focus on support and delivery of various Content team projects, to become focused more on supporting product and business opportunities and integrating other third‑party and customer‑specific taxonomies. The role will include the development and ongoing management of the team roadmap, contributing to data roadmaps and communicating progress to leadership.

This role will be well suited to someone with a deep knowledge of the life sciences who enjoys collaborating on cross‑functional projects and leading a team of taxonomists and knowledge engineers to deliver high quality results.

The Senior Manager role for Ontology / Taxonomy is critical in the strategic direction of transformational programs and projects to address key business priorities in collaboration with cross‑functional business units (technology, product, services etc.) focusing on:

• Optimization - Champion operational efficiency
• Utilization - Maximize data utility and unlock opportunities to leverage Norstella data across the business to drive value
• Thought Partnership - Spearhead data strategy and client engagement

Serve as trusted Content SME and thought partner advising leaders across Norstella

• Lead cross‑functional stakeholder relationships and client engagements, driving collaboration with key contacts in Product, Services, Technology and Data Science etc.
• Responsible for the articulation / positioning and scalable implementation of how our data resolves up to value to clients
• Responsible for cogent translation of complex, data‑driven concepts into business‑digestible ROI aligning with enterprise‑wide priorities
• Communicate Content priorities
• Report to executive leadership team on progress, risks and implications of strategic initiatives

Lead end‑to‑end enhancement of content datasets, leading capability expansion

• Spearhead identification of whitespace, structural gaps and opportunities for new enhancements and impactful solutions, including AI‑driven ones
• Lead data extraction,…