The Position:

The R&D Data Excellence Lead drives the vision, strategy, and execution of data excellence across the R&D organization. This role ensures that data is standardized, governed, and leveraged for advanced insights across scientific, clinical, safety, and regulatory domains. The role serves as a strategic advisor to R&D leadership, overseeing enterprise-aligned data infrastructure, data architecture, and standards to accelerate discovery, development, and decision-making. The role partners closely with enterprise I&T to ensure all data initiatives are scalable, compliant, and interoperable.

Responsibilities: Define and execute the R&D-wide data and analytics strategy aligned to R&D 2.0 transformation goals and PD&C objectives Serve as a strategic advisor to R&D leadership on opportunities to improve pipeline productivity and operational efficiency using data Establish and govern data standards, metadata management, lineage, and ontologies across R&D domains Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance and facilitate its application across R&D data sets Partner with I&T to design and maintain scalable, secure, and interoperable data platforms Enable integration of diverse data types including clinical, real-world data, omics, imaging, and digital biomarkers Collaborate with Digital Business Partners and Analytics teams to ensure data readiness and accessibi...