Job Description

Job Description

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Lead R&D business operations across all functions, and all budget elements (labor/non-labor) for $1.2 Billion R&D budget. Lead excellence in the selection, setup, governance, and continuous improvement of key external partnerships to deliver seamlessly.​

• Strategic Vendor and Partner Management (COE): ​
  Lead the Center of Excellence for key vendor and partner governance, ensuring optimal engagement models, performance monitoring, issue resolution, and continuous improvement across CROs, consultants, lab service providers, and CMC vendors.​

• Functional Business Operations Leadership ​
  Provide strategic direction and operational oversight to a network of 10+ R&D functional liaisons, ensuring alignment of externalized delivery models with functional strategies, execution needs, and operational goals. ​

• Contract Management Leadership :​
  Oversee centralized contract operations for approximately up to 50 major engagements annually, incl all Clinical Trial agreements, including end-to-end accountability for SOW creation, review, approval workflows, and invoice discrepancy resolution in partnership with Legal, Finance, and Procurement.​

• Capacity Planning CoE : ​
  Lead the development and implementation of scalable, data-driven capacity planning frameworks that support proactive resourcing decisions across internal teams and external partners, aligned with portfolio demands.​

• CMC Vendor Oversight (REDC): ​
  Provide governance, coordination, and performance management for key CMC vendors, ensuring service delivery, compliance, and strategic alignment with product development timelines.​

• SOW & Consultant Engagement Process Ownership: ​
  Own and optimize centralized business processes related to consultant onboarding, SOW management, and financial reconciliation, ensuring consistency, compliance, and timely execution across the R&D organization.​

• CRO & Business Development Partnerships: ​
  Drive strategic development and governance of CRO partnerships and business development engagements, supporting operational scalability, innovation, and alignment with evolving R&D needs.​

• Lab Services Operations: ​
  Oversee business operations and service performance for routine lab support providers within Research Labs, ensuring continuity, compliance, and service excellence in collaboration with Research leadership.​

• Cross-Functional Business Operations Alignment: ​
  Act as the R&D liaison with business partners including Finance, Procurement, Alliance Management and Legal to align and continuously improve end-to-end R&D business operations, including contracting, procurement strategy, and financial planning.​

• Study Contracting & Scenario Planning Support: ​
  Provide expert insights into study-level contracting trends and assumptions to support Finance in developing accurate business models and scenario analyses.​

• Business Process and Technology Implementation: ​
  Lead continuous improvement of business processes enabled by technology in collaboration with technology Enabled Science to streamline operations and enhance visibility, traceability, and accountability across R&D.​

• Training Oversight: Provide R&D training oversight including training material development and vendor oversight in collaboration with RDQA

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required. An advanced degree, Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or equivalent is a plus.​

• Strong Business acumen with 15+ years experience working in an R&D, Business Operations, or Clinical Operations is required. ​

• Proven track record of successfully managing complex partnerships​

• Previous experience building and managing teams 10+ years​

• Proven leadership experience and success with building and developing matrix global teams​

• Ability to lead interactions with multiple stakeholder groups and interfaces​

• Vendor oversight and management​

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.

Please take the time to review our benefits site to see what’s available to you as a CSL employee.

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, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future. Learn more Inclusion and Belonging | CSL.

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