Director, Search Platform Lead

Overview

Responsible for the strategy, development, and optimization of digital platforms that support external innovation, business development, market analysis, and competitive intelligence. This role ensures the organization has a strategic edge by enabling timely, accurate, and actionable insights from external data sources, partnerships, and market signals.

• Lead the design and evolution of search and intelligence platforms that aggregate and analyze data from scientific literature, patents, clinical trials, market databases, and competitor pipelines.
• Collaborate with business development, R&D, strategy, and digital teams to define platform requirements, use cases, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Integrate AI/ML, NLP, and semantic search technologies to enhance discovery, relevance, and insight generation.
• Manage external vendors and data providers, ensuring high-quality service delivery, innovation, and cost-effectiveness.
• Establish governance for data sourcing, tagging, access, and compliance with licensing and privacy regulations.
• Drive user adoption through training, support, and continuous improvement based on feedback and analytics.
• Monitor emerging technologies and trends in competitive intelligence and digital search to maintain a strategic advantage.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in digital platforms, competitive intelligence, or external innovation within a scientific or business development context.
• Strong understanding of search technologies, data integration, and analytics platforms.
• Experience managing external vendors, data subscriptions, and technology partnerships.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and strategic thinking skills.

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

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