Senior Director, Priority Digital Project Lead (3 Openings)
About The Position
The Senior Director, Priority Digital Project Lead serves as the strategic leader and chief value architect for one or more assigned PDS Aim Points and the Priority Digital Projects (PDPs) that execute against them. The role translates enterprise intent into measurable, value-backed outcomes, owns multi-year roadmaps, leads cross-functional teams, and guides products from design through stage-gated delivery so they are adopted, compliant, and sustained in daily operations. The role works with enterprise partners across PDS and other functions, depending on assigned Aim Points and PDPs. It aligns people, processes, data, technology, and AI into a coordinated execution system, connecting enterprise goals with site- and function-level work while anchoring investments to business value and sustained operating change. Aim Points may include cash flow optimization, revenue acceleration, zero disruptions, productivity and decision velocity, and patient reliability. Projects may also support priorities outside the Aim Point structure, such as enterprise-wide platform initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- At least 10 years of experience in biopharma operations, supply chain, manufacturing, product development, MS&T, regulatory CMC, quality, tech transfer, launch readiness, portfolio operations, digital product management, or enterprise transformation.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional, enterprise-visible initiatives integrating business process, data, technology, AI, governance, and adoption to deliver measurable outcomes.
- Strong end-to-end value-chain fluency relevant to the assigned Priority Digital Project.
- High digital and data fluency, with sufficient technical depth to challenge architecture, data model, automation, workflow, and AI/ML choices while partnering with technical leads.
- Strong to exceptional executive influence, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to drive trade-off decisions and alignment across conflicting priorities.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in life sciences, engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, regulatory affairs, data/analytics, digital transformation, or business.
- Experience with agile product delivery, value-stream mapping, business case development, stage-gated investment governance, change management, adoption planning, and value tracking.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional teams across PDS, providing day-to-day direction, accountability, and coaching to Product Owners, Technical Leads, and delivery team members regardless of reporting line.
- Own roadmaps for assigned Aim Points and ensure PDPs, products, backlogs, and stage-gate decisions support defined value outcomes.
- Own and promote the assigned Aim Point vision and align product decisions with PDS 2030, PDS digital strategy, and enterprise AI priorities.
- Define and sequence critical-few roadmaps, manage dependencies with other PDPs and non-Fusion work, and ensure readiness for prototype, MVP, scale, and value-realization decisions.
- Align Product Owners across PDS functions so products are reusable, modular, adopted, and sustained in core business processes.
- Drive integration of relevant source systems, data assets, domain knowledge, and AI or automation capabilities, partnering with technical leads to maintain delivery integrity.
- Partner with Finance to establish baselines, benefit logic, and value-capture mechanisms, and champion measurable improvements.
- Align sponsors and functional leaders, establish escalation paths, and ensure site and functional perspectives inform work from design through execution.
- Reinforce agile ways of working, clarify accountabilities across Fusion/PDP Team Leads, Product Owners, Technical Leads, advisory groups, and delivery teams, and help retire analogue processes where digital-first operations are ready to scale.
- Plan change management, communications, training, adoption metrics, and run-state ownership so products are used and sustained.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit plans, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance offerings.
- Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit for eligible U.S.-based exempt employees, subject to manager approval.
- 11 paid company holidays each year for eligible U.S.-based exempt employees.
- Other eligible time-off benefits may include paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs.
- Eligible employees may receive an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
- Additional compensation may include discretionary cash incentives and stock opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
