IT BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGER - R&D DATA SCIENCE

We’re building the future of medical dermatology by focusing on unmet patient needs and giving people the space to think independently, take ownership and make an impact that matters.

 

Our purpose is simple: to transform patients’ lives by addressing real needs. We work with care, act with courage, keep things simple and focus our innovation where it makes a difference.

 

Recognised as a Top Employer in Spain since 2008 and in Germany since 2025, we continue to invest in an environment where people can grow and move forward. 

If you care differently, you belong here. 

MISSION 

Act as the IT solution owner and trusted partner for the R&D Data Science team, collaborating closely with bioinformatics, molecular modelling, and AI Engineering to ensure alignment, proximity, and effective day-to-day collaboration. 

Own and support Data Science applications, both internally developed and third-party, ensuring business alignment, prioritization, and adoption. The role is accountable for end-to-end coordination, while execution of operations, architecture, security, compliance, and support is delivered in collaboration with specialized IT teams and external vendors. 

This role serves as a ring-fenced resource dedicated to Data Science needs, enabling faster decision-making, better communication, and more efficient delivery of IT services. It requires a strong scientific background and solid experience in R&D Data Science environments. 

 

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Operational: 

• Lead demand intake, service coordination and project delivery for Data Science-related IT needs in close collaboration with Data Science stakeholders, especially bioinformatics and modelling teams 

• Manage software development lifecycle of custom Data Science tools supporting the acceleration of hypothesis generation and scientific insight creation  

• Act as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) in IT for Data Science users, reducing complexity by shielding business stakeholders from interacting with multiple IT teams and ensuring seamless coordination across infrastructure, security, data and application domains 

• Partner with relevant IT domains to evolve technology capabilities for R&D Data Science, supporting scientific platforms, advanced computing, omics, multimodal analytics, molecular modelling and AI/ML in line with business priorities 

 

• Translate, review, and validate Data Science requirements into actionable IT deliverables with clear scope, timelines, and responsibilities, while safeguarding business and end-user needs through a unified model for demand intake, backlog prioritization, issue management and adoption 

 

• Coordinate with the appropriate governance, security and compliance functions to ensure Data Science solutions align with R&D and enterprise requirements, including AI ethics, monitoring and risk management 

 

• Coordinate with service support teams and technology vendors to ensure technical solutions meet agreed functional and performance expectations 

 

• Ensure that appropriate documentation, knowledge transfer and service transition are in place for handover to IT support teams 

• Accountable for the update of data science system maps and software developed by data science that support R&D business operations 

• Work with the relevant expert teams to ensure systems and pipelines meet required standards for backup, data integrity, security and GxP compliance 

 

• Contribute to cost-efficient technology decisions aligned with the long-term R&D business strategy, in collaboration with the relevant IT and procurement stakeholders 

 

• Define and track KPIs to measure solution performance, adoption and business value. 

 

• Drive project management using agile methodologies and increase speed of delivery, reducing time to insight and enabling faster hypothesis generation in all possible stages of Data Science flat & self-organised model.  

 

• Represent Data Science growth needs in IT planning to help ensure that platforms and services can scale appropriately for omics, advanced analytics and AI use cases 

 

• Coordinate the design and evolution of the end-to-end architecture for the Data Science environment with enterprise architecture and specialist IT teams, ensuring scalability, resilience and alignment with corporate standards across ideation, pilots and production solutions 

 

• Orchestrate cross-functional delivery involving Data & AI, Infrastructure & Operations, Security and Digital Solutions, with clear ownership across the relevant IT domains 

 

EXPERIENCE 

• At least 5 years of experience working in R&D Pharma in close collaboration with bioinformatics and IT teams 

• Deep understanding of R&D Data Science workflows (omics, bioinformatics, AI/ML pipelines, and computational modeling) 

• Proven ability to operate at the intersection of science and technology, translating scientific challenges into scalable IT solutions 

• Experience in HPC, cloud platforms (preferably Azure), or equivalent architectures for compute-intensive workloads 

• Deep knowledge of advanced computing environments, supporting analytics, scientific pipelines AI/ML, or simulation workloads 

• Market vision for solutions to support data scientist in Pharma R&D environment. Broad understanding of the Pharma industry including security and GxP compliance 

• Python, Linux, Apache, Postgres, Bash, R, Gitlab, Shiny server, Package manager Posit Workbench & Connect, services configuration management and automation, supports custom DS application to allow developer users to install code packages, Docker CI/CD, kubernetes clusters, LakeHouse integrations (preferably DataBricks) 

• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing end to end data and cloud architectures including infrastructure, data pipelines, and application integration for complex and scalable environments 

• Solid experience managing full lifecycle of solutions from ideation and proof of concept to industrialization production deployment and ongoing evolution & continuous improvement 

• Proven track record in leading or coordinating cross-functional teams including Data & AI, infrastructure, security and external vendors 

• Proven ability to enable innovation and evaluate non-standard technologies, balancing agility with compliance and enterprise architecture in fast-evolving environments 

 

MISSION 

Act as the IT solution owner and trusted partner for the R&D Data Science team, collaborating closely with bioinformatics, molecular modelling, and AI Engineering to ensure alignment, proximity, and effective day-to-day collaboration. 

Own and support Data Science applications, both internally developed and third-party, ensuring business alignment, prioritization, and adoption. The role is accountable for end-to-end coordination, while execution of operations, architecture, security, compliance, and support is delivered in collaboration with specialized IT teams and external vendors. 

This role serves as a ring-fenced resource dedicated to Data Science needs, enabling faster decision-making, better communication, and more efficient delivery of IT services. It requires a strong scientific background and solid experience in R&D Data Science environments.