Senior Director – Digital Business Partnership – Pioneering Medicines

Senior Director – Digital Business Partnership – Pioneering Medicines

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in digital strategy or IT business partnership roles in life sciences, with focus in clinical or regulated environments.
• Demonstrated success engaging with executive leadership across R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, or TechOps domains.
• Strong understanding of clinical platform roadmaps, data lifecycle management, and GxP system requirements.
• Proven ability to navigate matrixed organizations and partner with delivery teams without assuming execution responsibilities.
• Experience collaborating with business analysts, technical leads, and PMO functions to drive strategic alignment and initiative success.
• Effective communication and leadership skills, with ability to represent digital priorities in executive forums.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary digital business partner to PM leadership across PM’s Operations, R&D, Clinical, TechOps, and Programs.
• Sponsor the PM digital portfolio, ensuring initiatives reflect strategic business priorities and are aligned to long-range plans.
• Translate business needs into strategic digital opportunity areas, identifying reusable solutions and enterprise-aligned capabilities.
• Represent PM’s digital objectives with IT leadership, and portfolio governance processes.
• Ensure early identification of digital dependencies across PM functions and communicate implications for platform or sequencing decisions.
• Collaborate with PM leadership to define and manage the Build budget (digital investments supporting strategic initiatives), ensuring alignment with the digital roadmap and prioritization model; partner with IT delivery teams on visibility into Run budget requirements to inform long-term planning.
• Own the intake and/or validation of business generated digital demand across PM’s functional domains.
• Coordinate prioritization discussions across business stakeholders and IT leaders to align investment, timing, and sequencing.
• Prepare business case inputs and ensure demand is supported by appropriate strategic context and readiness.
• Track intake through intake tools and dashboards in collaboration with the Office of the CIO.
• Ensure that PM’s functional teams understand intake processes and know how to engage with Digital Business Partnership.
• Partner with IT delivery leaders in Research & Development Systems, Clinical Systems, Enterprise Apps, Infrastructure & Operations, and Cybersecurity to align delivery expectations and scope.
• Collaborate with IT delivery functions to ensure functional workflows, SOPs, and testing needs are captured and delivered by appropriate teams.
• Work with IT delivery function leaders, and the PMO (Office of the CIO), to ensure project managers are assigned and initiative status is appropriately tracked across delivery teams.
• Escalate issues related to delivery capacity, capability, or coordination to appropriate delivery leads or ITLT.
• Maintain awareness of resource constraints, system overlap, and interdependencies across PM platforms—without assuming ownership of delivery or operations.
• Participate in steering and roadmap sessions for PM-relevant platforms (e.g., Veeva Vault, CTMS, DRA, LDFS).
• Advise on timing, sequencing, and value of enhancements to support business readiness and cross-functional alignment.
• Maintain visibility into business process evolution and influence platform direction through stakeholder feedback and strategic input.
• Support alignment of post-launch roadmaps to evolving PM goals—but do not own system operations, on-going change management & associated business analysis, or user support.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.