Associate Director, R&D IT

Lantheus (NASDAQ: LNTH) is the leading radiopharmaceutical-focused company, delivering life-changing science to enable clinicians to Find, Fight and Follow disease to deliver better patient outcomes. Headquartered in Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom, Lantheus has been providing radiopharmaceutical solutions for nearly 70 years.

Today, we’re expanding our portfolio and pipeline across oncology, neurology and cardiology. Through recent acquisitions, along with strategic partnerships across the life sciences ecosystem, we are accelerating our efforts to advance precision medicine and improve patient outcomes around the world.

At Lantheus we are purpose-driven, and every employee plays a vital role in our success. We’re dedicated to cultivating a high-growth, forward-thinking culture where innovation thrives and diverse perspectives drive meaningful progress.

Join us and be part of a company where your contributions make a real impact, because we know someone’s health is in our hands.

Summary

We are seeking an exceptional, hands-on Associate Director, R&D IT leader that is a highly hands-on technology and people leader responsible for end-to-end IT partnerships, solution delivery, and operational support across the company’s radiopharmaceutical Research & Development organization.

This role is intentionally designed for a lean, asset-centric R&D environment. The leader will operate as a “Swiss Army knife,” personally executing across the full solution lifecycle—from scientific and clinical business partnership through solution design, configuration or development, testing, validation, deployment, and production support—while also managing vendors, budget, and a small internal team

The role serves as the primary IT partner for asset-focused R&D functions, including:

• Medical Affairs
• Medical Imaging
• Clinical Operations
• Regulatory Affairs
• Research & Pharmaceutical Development (RPD)
• Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety
• Clinical Science
• Biomarkers
• Biometrics / Data Sciences
• Pharma Solutions & Asset Management

The ideal candidate brings a very hands-on all-round credibility in the R&D space across all the functions above, working with business and customer stakeholders for meeting business needs with technology, architectural and design leadership, hands-on development, scrappy and roll up your sleeve implementation expertise, providing solutions support for testing, post go-live support and validation activities throughout the lifecycle.

A successful candidate has a deep understanding of R&D asset lifecycles, key R&D applications and systems across the business portfolio, study strategies, regulatory and quality needs, development milestones and all R&D data needs including analytics and reporting needs, future focused R&D data products, AI and Gen AI use cases that bring tangible ROI to the R&D organization, translates scientific, clinical, imaging, safety, and regulatory needs into pragmatic, compliant technology solutions, has high level of influencing experience and successes in steering business partners towards standard IT solutions vs solutions they may prefer, and balances speed, quality, and compliance in a fast-moving radiopharmaceutical R&D environment.

This role will shape the enterprise’s R&D IT journey as R&D grows from a business standpoint across all business functions, integrates R&D focused organizations as part of Lantheus 3.0 and external business partners in CRO’s and similar organizations.

This position is based in Massachusetts and requires a presence on-site (two/three) days per week, and open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions

Enterprise R&D IT Strategy, Operations & Support

• Set and execute a multi-year R&D IT roadmap aligned with business priorities and capabilities needed across all Lantheus R&D functions including integrating R&D focused organizations as part of Lantheus 3.0.
• Personally lead and contribute to:
  • Business and system requirements definition
  • Solution architecture and design
  • Configuration, scripting, or development as required
  • Integration between R&D, clinical, regulatory, quality and data systems
  • Testing, validation, release, and post-go-live support
• Operate across commercial Off-the shelf SaaS and non-SaaS platforms, vendor-hosted systems, and custom solutions.
• Ensure solutions are right-sized for a midsize organization—robust but not overengineered
• Lead the shift from a fragmented, application-cent