Chief of Staff, Science
About The Position
The Chief of Staff reports to the Chief Science Officer (CSO) and serves on the Science Leadership Team. This person acts as a trusted strategic and operations partner to the CSO and Science leadership, coordinating with Product, Engineering, Commercial, Finance, and Operations to translate the Science Team’s vision into clear priorities and meaningful impact for Datavant’s Life Sciences business. The role calls for scientific depth, intellectual curiosity, strong organization and strategic thinking, and the ability to independently conceive and implement solutions. The Chief of Staff partners with the CSO and Science Leadership Team on annual and quarterly priorities, converts strategic priorities into plans and measures of success, and manages leadership-team operations and follow-through. The position develops an integrated view of science services and product performance, coordinates scientific input into commercial strategy and product roadmaps, and works with Finance and Commercial leaders on pipeline forecasts and capacity planning. It also supports team effectiveness, budget management, change initiatives, and executive communications.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of industry experience in life sciences, healthcare, or a related field.
- Experience in roles requiring scientific judgment, strategic problem-solving, and leadership of complex initiatives across scientific, technical, commercial, and operations functions.
Nice To Haves
- MPH, MBA, or an advanced degree in a field related to epidemiology or biostatistics.
- Experience in life sciences services, healthcare data, consulting involving real-world studies, or real-world data-related technology, with exposure to both scientific delivery and commercial or product functions.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex scientific, operational, and business information into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
- Experience developing and managing organizational planning processes, including priority setting, resource allocation, capacity planning, or performance measurement.
- Strong executive communication skills, including experience developing presentations, decision documents, and scientific or strategic narratives for senior internal and external audiences.
- Track record of leading through influence in a matrixed organization and building alignment across teams with differing expertise, priorities, and incentives.
- Experience identifying and implementing improvements to scientific or technical team operations, bringing structure to ambiguity while preserving scientific rigor and judgment.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the CSO and Science Leadership Team to define annual and quarterly priorities.
- Translate strategic priorities into plans, milestones, ownership, and measures of success.
- Serve as an active member of the Science Leadership Team.
- Manage Science Leadership Team operations, including agendas, decisions, action tracking, and follow-through.
- Propose services-delivery resourcing for Leadership Team confirmation.
- Raise cross-functional risks, dependencies, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- Ensure decisions and priorities are communicated consistently across the Science organization.
- Develop an integrated view of services-delivery performance, product science support, services pipeline, product roadmap, staffing, utilization, quality, and client outcomes.
- Coordinate Science Team input for commercial strategy and product-roadmap prioritization.
- Identify group-level performance risks and work with Science leaders to develop options for addressing them.
- Coordinate with Finance and Commercial leaders on pipeline forecasts, and lead the build and maintenance of a capacity model.
- Support tracking of time and manage tracking of studies and publications.
- Lead selected change initiatives across the Science organization.
- Support Science Team budget management, including conference and client-meeting attendance and software licensing.
- Manage full-team meetings, including drafting agendas and slides and securing external speakers.
- Prepare presentations, business updates, and decision documents for the CSO.
- Represent the CSO in selected internal meetings and ensure appropriate follow-through.
Benefits
- Total rewards strategy designed to reward employees for transforming healthcare through data logistics products and services.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
