Sr Director, Digital Business Partner, R&D

Overview

The Position:
The Digital Business Partner, R&D Labs will serve as a strategic advisor between the Research and Search functions and the digital innovation ecosystem. This role will partner with the research and search functions to understand business strategy and translate scientific objectives into transformative digital capabilities that enable speed, efficiency, and innovation in lab-based environments. The role acts as a thought leader in digital lab transformation, ecosystem integration, and external partnership enablement.

Additionally, this role will collaborate closely with I&T, TES leaders, and business partners to ensure solution alignment and scalability.

• Serve as a strategic digital advisor to Research and Search functional leaders, aligning digital initiatives with scientific strategy
• Shape and deliver a forward-looking digital strategy to transform lab operations and collaboration
• Identify and champion digital use cases (e.g., ELN, LIMS, smart lab instrumentation, lab digital twins) to enhance lab productivity
• Drive external innovation partnerships (e.g., academia, CROs, tech vendors) to accelerate research digitization
• Partner with I&T and platform teams to ensure solution scalability, compliance, and integration
• Lead pilot programs and scale successful digital lab innovations across the enterprise
• Promote digital mindset and adoption through change management, training, and leadership engagement
• Monitor value realization metrics to evaluate impact and continuously improve lab digital capabilities

• Master’s or PhD in a scientific field preferred; equivalent experience in R&D digital enablement acceptable
• 15 years of technology or digital experience with progressive digital leadership responsibilities
• 10 years executing and building solutions with a strong focus on R&D related processes and solutions
• Demonstrated success implementing digital tools and platforms in GxP or scientific environments
• Experience working globally across complex matrix organizations
• Strong external orientation with proven ability to drive value from innovation ecosystems

CSL employees that work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits effective day 1. We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. CSL offers resources and benefits, from health care to financial protection, so you can focus on doing work that matters. Our benefits are designed to support the needs of our employees at every stage of their life.

Whether you are considering starting a family, need help paying for emergency back up care or summer camp, looking for mental health resources, planning for your financial future, or supporting your favorite charity with a matching contribution, CSL has many benefits to help achieve your goals. Please take the time to review our benefits site to see what’s available to you as a CSL employee.

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.

We want CSL to reflect the world around us. Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

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