Your Opportunity:
CSL's R&D organisation is accelerating innovation to deliver greater impact for patients. With a project-led structure and a focus on collaboration, we’re building a future-ready team that thrives in dynamic biotech ecosystems. Joining CSL now means being part of an agile team committed to developing therapies that make a meaningful difference worldwide.
As a Senior Director, R&D Data Stewardship COE, you will establish and lead a Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on data stewardship across the R&D organization. You will ensure that scientific and operational data are governed, curated, and maintained according to enterprise standards, enabling high-quality, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data for research, development, and regulatory use. You will drive the adoption of best practices in data governance, quality, and lifecycle management across R&D domains.
Your Role:
1. Build and lead the R&D Data Stewardship CoE, including defining its vision, operating model, and success metrics to ensure alignment with organizational goals
2. Develop and implement data stewardship frameworks, roles, and responsibilities across key R&D domains, such as clinical, regulatory, research, and safety
3. Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and domain experts to establish consistent data definitions, quality rules, and metadata practices across R&D systems
4. Partner with IT, data governance, and analytics teams to embed data stewardship principles into data platforms, workflows, and systems across the organization
5. Drive the adoption of data standards, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies across R&D systems to enhance data consistency, accessibility, and interoperability
6. Monitor data quality and stewardship KPIs, leading continuous improvement initiatives to address gaps in data governance and ensure data integrity
7. Provide training, tools, and best practices to empower data stewards and support the broader organization in adopting data stewardship practices
8. Champion data stewardship initiatives, ensuring that R&D data is maintained and used in compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements
Your Experience:
9. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Data Management, Information Science, or a related field .
10. 12+ years of experience in data stewardship, data governance, or data management within an R&D or scientific environment .
11. Strong understanding of data lifecycle management, metadata management, and data quality principles .
12. Experience with data governance tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation) and scientific data systems (e.g., LIMS, ELN, RIM) .
13. Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and drive cross-functional teams toward data stewardship best practices.
Apply now to join a world class research organisation innovating globally! Please submit your application with your updated resume.
Our Benefits
CSL employees that work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for benefits effective day 1. We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones. CSL offers resources and benefits, from health care to financial protection, so you can focus on doing work that matters. Our benefits are designed to support the needs of our employees at every stage of their life. Whether you are considering starting a family, need help paying for emergency back up care or summer camp, looking for mental health resources, planning for your financial future, or supporting your favorite charity with a matching contribution, CSL has many benefits to help achieve your goals.
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About CSL Behring
is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks,. Our parent company,, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
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