Research & Development Sciences IT (RaDS IT) delivers the digital solutions that power the research half of our company, spanning drug discovery, CMC development, preclinical research and translational medicine. RaDS IT Laboratory Operations & Platforms provides the products and services that enable research operations across the laboratories and pilot plants. Its mission is to deliver and operate digital solutions and platforms that enable safe, efficient and compliant lab and pilot plant operations. RaDS IT Digital Solutions and RaDS IT Data & Analytics are key partners: Digital Solutions composes domain‑specific end‑to‑end scientific solutions that consume these platforms and Data & Analytics builds the data foundations, integrations and analytics capabilities that make platform data discoverable, reusable and fit for insight and regulatory needs. The Executive Director, Laboratory Operations & Platforms will be accountable for the full suite of digital capabilities that enable laboratory management and execution. This accountability includes overseeing the digital platforms, services, and practices needed to effectively run research labs — spanning sample inventory, registration, materials management, laboratory notebooks, workflow orchestration, digital instrument enablement, lab automation, data capture and data archiving. This key leader will partner closely with RaDS IT -Digital Solutions in order to understand opportunities to enable reusable platform components to enable agility and sustainability in end-to-end digital solutions, defining and delivering the services to enable commercial informatics platforms and custom solutions to be utilized as components of end-to-end digital solutions. The role will also partner closely with the RaDS IT Data & Analytics team to understand data standards and meta data requirements needed to be enabled as part of data capture to realize the organization's data strategy. This role leads both product management and engineering/architecture functions across the lab management product lines, ensuring that capabilities are delivered in a scalable, integrated, and sustainable way. The Executive Director will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategy for research operations, ensuring that laboratories have the digital and technical foundation to accelerate discovery and development.