R&D Integrated Control Tower Business Lead

Job Title: R&D Integrated Control Tower Business Lead

Job Summary:
This is a new role, created to establish an Integrated Platform to assess the pipeline performance for R&D.

You will be the single accountable business lead for the design and operation of the platform that connects established and future control towers that are embedded within the R&D functions and brings together data streams, key performance indicators, and operational insights to support decision-making at key R&D governance fora leading to better efficiency, risk management and enhanced transparency, and helping to drive performance across R&D teams.

This pivotal role embedded within the Development Performance team ensures cross-functional coordination and integration enabling real-time visibility across the R&D organization.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Integrated Platform Development, Strategic Oversight, Performance Monitoring & Issue Escalation

• Accountable business lead for creating the vision for this platform, which will contain all the key R&D data to inform on decision making related to R&D performance. Serve as the central point of accountability for the integrated platform ensuring its alignment with the strategic goals and priorities of the R&D organisation enabling greater efficiency of the pipeline delivery.
• Develop the vision for the platform, ensuring key stakeholder (RDLT and RDLT-1) requirements are understood and integrated into the platform. Partner with Tech to deliver the platform.
• Collaborate closely with the Senior Product Director in Tech to design and implement a comprehensive platform that connects established and new cross-R&D control towers to enable centralised user access to data for the R&D organisation. Ensure consistency in deployment (data architecture, data governance and user access etc).
• Establish business protocols and standards for identifying data sources and workflows into the integrated Development Reporting & Analytics framework in a consistent manner.
• Be the accountable business owner for the integrated platform, ensuring real-time visibility and R&D performance analytics and insights for key R&D stakeholders including enterprise leadership.
• Develop and maintain governance procedures to ensure consistent oversight and management of R&D activities through the integrated platform.
• Enable R&D teams and management to utilize the insights from the integrated platform to monitor study and portfolio-level metrics (e.g., enrolment, timelines, resource utilization), proactively identifying delays, risks, and bottlenecks, and coordinating resolution across clinical, regulatory, and data functions.

2. Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Be the central accountable business lead for the integrated platform working with the embedded functional control tower owners in Clinical Operations, MDS, Regulatory and Project Management to ensure access to data insights and reporting to facilitate alignment and timely decision-making.
• Partner effectively with the Development Data Fabric (DDF) to ensure alignment and integration of the platform with existing processes and initiatives.
• Serve as a trusted partner to project teams, program leaders, and senior R&D and enterprise leadership by translating complex operational data into actionable insights.

3. Performance Management, Governance and Reporting

• Work closely with the Performance Data & Analytics team, functional Productivity roles, R&D Finance and R&D Tech to define requirements, reporting tools, and analytical capabilities for the integrated platform to ensure a comprehensive ecosystem that enables seamless data and actionable insights into R&D performance monitoring frameworks e.g. R&D Quarterly Performance Review (QPR), key governance fora and to senior enterprise leaders to support decision-making.
• Support regular and ad hoc governance routines (e.g., governance meetings, leadership reviews, operational risk meetings) with clear, concise reporting and strategic insight into pipeline progress and risks leading to better efficiency, risk management and enhanced transparency, and helping to drive performance across R&D teams.
• Drive business feedback to enable continuous improvement of the integrated platform workflow and performance monitoring capabilities to increase agility, efficiency, and delivery confidence.
• Work with internal and external network to continuously innovate and optimize automation, use of AI and agents.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in clinical development, clinical operations, R&D performance management, data analytics, or a related role in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry.

• Strong proficiency in data analytics tools and data visualisation and proven experience working with clinical data systems (e.g., CTMS, EDC, TMF, resource and budget planning tools).
• Strong analytical and visualization skills with experience using tools like Power BI, Tableau, or Spotfire.
• Demonstrable drive and experience to seek solutions enabled through automation and with an AI/agentic mindset.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing without authority.
• Working knowledge and familiarity with drug development processes, governance structures, and regulatory milestones.
• Experience in managing and influencing senior stakeholders to drive alignment.

Preferred Attributes:

• Advanced degree (e.g., MSc, PhD).
• Strategic thinker with a strong grasp of operational realities in clinical development.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and complexity in a dynamic R&D environment.
• Experienced in constructing business frameworks that allow performance management capabilities across multiple R&D functions.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills-able to translate data into insight and action for senior stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

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