Lantheus · 11 hours ago
Associate Director, R&D IT
Bedford, Town of, Massachusetts, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$139K/yr - $232K/yr
7+ years expLantheus is a leading radiopharmaceutical-focused company delivering life-changing science to enable better patient outcomes. They are seeking an Associate Director, R&D IT who will be responsible for end-to-end IT partnerships and operational support across the company’s radiopharmaceutical Research & Development organization, driving IT strategy and managing stakeholder relationships.
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Responsibilities
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-centric reporting ecosystem to an enterprise-standardized data foundation with governed, reusable data entities
Establish data integration, mastering, lineage, and governance frameworks that materially improve data quality, accessibility, and trust
In partnership with the data and information teams, create a searchable R&D data lake, data marketplace and a suite of data products enabling self-service analytics, natural-language data queries, and secure business-friendly discovery and reuse of data assets. Also identify and create AI and Gen AI solutions (off-the-shelf, SaaS or custom built) that provide differentiating competitive advantage for the R&D business areas including functional agents, cross-functional agentic orchestration solutions and solving critical and complex business use cases in R&D functions
Establish Analytics Platforms (BI Tools) Guidance across all functions
Acts as the face of R&D from an IT perspective for the enterprise. Manages outcomes focused on business relationships and partnerships with customers and are accountable for their perception of application and data as it relates to R&D, their ease of use and availability, and business value utilization in the enterprise
Ensures ideation, discovery, collection, management, implementation and reporting of functional and cross functional applications and capabilities related use cases for R&D
Ensures setup and management of customer feedback loops and their perceptions for constructive and continuous improvement in line with organizational goals, customers’ expectations and teams career aspirations
Develop and execute R&D wide application, data, analytics, automation and AI training strategy to uplift digital literacy and self-service capabilities
Build role-based learning pathways, center-led training programs, and enablement initiatives across functions
In partnership with the data teams, lead structured organizational change management for all major R&D capabilities and applications, data, analytics, automation and AI platform introductions
Drive communication plans, stakeholder alignment, and R&D adoption for new capabilities and operating models
Establish and operationalize R&D wide governance, stewardship, and quality management practices including governance and process of data across R&D functions
Define policies for application and data access, security, privacy, compliance, and responsible use
Partner with Legal, Compliance, Quality, and Security to ensure alignment with regulatory standards (e.g., GxP, SOX, GDPR, data privacy)
Implement governance forums, data councils, and decision-making structures that ensure trust, transparency, and accountability
Oversee delivery of capabilities and applications, data-oriented dashboards, analytics solutions, integrations, data pipelines, and R&D information management capabilities
Ensure strong partnership and alignment with the IT data and peer functions, system owners, enterprise architects, and functional leaders
Mature the team’s operating model from reactive/tactical delivery to strategic advisory
Lead, inspire and motivate a small team of individual contributors to be R&D superstar partners for business customers and collaborative towards their functional peers. Also can grow and expand the team based on business demands and based on experience
Proven and demonstrated success in uplifting a tactical team to a highly performing team with minimal business impact while having inspirational impact on team members is an absolute must in this role
Transform team culture from “order-takers” to trusted enterprise advisors
Foster a culture of continuous learning, modern engineering practices, business empathy, and experimentation
Own and manages functional and project portfolio budgets, vendor relationships, platform investments, and contract negotiations
Establishes and has extensive experience in setup of financial cost allocation, chargeback, consumption and run operating model alignment with C level business partners including pricing plans, cost optimization for application and data related costs e.g. data transfer to/from cloud provider environments, what is charged back to non-IT functions and what IT pays for
Evaluate new technologies, platforms, and strategic partners
Review and determine vendor contracts, SOW’s, conduct impact assessments, and share recommendations for business decision-making
Prioritize and communicate portfolio demand across run, grow, and transform initiatives
Propose and align on a standard R&D and cross functional demand management process across all R&D functions
Qualification
Required
7+ years of progressive experience across R&D applications, data, analytics, integration, information management, automation, and AI/GenAI
Demonstrated hands-on and architectural depth across modern R&D application portfolio including application for each capability in R&D including data/AI platforms
Proven experience driving enterprise transformation toward standardized applications by capabilities vs functional and sub-functional silos, data, self-service analytics, governed data ecosystems, and AI/GenAI solutions
Strong leadership track record managing individual contributors and managers alike
Strong financial management experience
Bachelor's degree required
Preferred
Experience in pharmaceutical or life sciences environments preferred
Master's preferred
Specialized functional AI and GenAI applications in life science industries (off the shelf or custom developed) in R&D vertical and implementation expertise in R&D COTS and SaaS applications for quick wins and building momentum in that space is highly desirable
Benefits
A comprehensive health benefits package that includes medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage
Life and disability benefits
Pre-tax accounts
A 401(k) with company contribution
A variety of other benefits
A generous time off package including paid vacation, holidays, sick days, and paid parental leave
Company
Lantheus
With more than 65 years of experience in delivering life-changing science, Lantheus is committed to improving patient outcomes through diagnostics, radiotherapeutics and artificial intelligence solutions that enable clinicians to Find, Fight and Follow disease.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Robert Marshall
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Jamie Spaeth
Chief People Officer
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