Associate Director, IT Business Partner, Cell Therapy Analytical Development

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Position Summary

The Associate Director, Cell Therapy Development (CTD) IT Analytics Lead role will serve as a strategic technology partner to the CTD organization within Cell Therapy Development & Operations (CTDO). This senior leader role is responsible for driving scientific partnership, strategic planning, delivery, and support of digital capabilities that enhance and accelerate how CTD collects and analyzes scientific data to meet Cell Therapy business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of relationships with CTD scientific leadership that leads to co-created digital and scientific strategies. Expected to be a credible scientific partner with passion for advancing the science using digital approaches – data analytics, modeling, simulation, AI and ML.
• Responsible for the full lifecycle of analytical digital capabilities, - conception, development, deployment, enhancement, retirement.
• Responsible for the strategic planning and delivery of digital capabilities that enable and accelerate the role that data plays in enabling CTD to deliver against its organizational objectives:
  • Knowledge for cell therapy products, gene delivery tools including viral vector, and ancillary materials to enable current and future generation cell therapy development.
  • Release of early phase clinical products and technical expertise to enable QC investigation.
  • Analytical technology and assay automation development to improve assay robustness, shorten release turnaround time, increase throughput, lower COGM, and reduce operational complexity for QC release, PD & PC support.
  • Phase-appropriate methods and data packages to enable efficient technical development decision-making. 
  • Product characterization data packages to enable correlative analysis.
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of long-term (12-24 months) roadmaps of digital capabilities that have the greatest impact on the CT asset pipeline as well as tech transfer to manufacturing.
• Effective matrix leader of direct, indirect, IT and strategic external partner resources, ensuring that all IT functions are successful in their delivery of services in support of cell therapy development execution. 
• Effective matrix leadership when dealing with internal and 3rd party partners.

Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree +10 years experience of demonstrated experience and ability to lead planning and implementation of data analysis digital capabilities.
• Current knowledge of available technology to capture, analyze, manage, and share data and information within and outside of the organization, and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge with strategic intent.
• Deep expertise and experience of data analysis programming languages and tools (e.g., Python, R, SQL, Java, SAS, Perl, C++).
• Demonstrated communication and influencing skills that effectively build trust and collaboration with senior leaders and scientists.
• Ability to envision and innovate a different future for cell therapy development data analytics based on the rapidly evolving AI/ML landscape and other digital capabilities.
• Working knowledge of applicable regulations related to pharmaceutical development ( 21 CFR 11, GLP, GMP ).
• Experience working with validated applications​.

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