Description
Lantheus (NASDAQ: LNTH) is the leading radiopharmaceutical-focused company, delivering life-changing science to enable clinicians to Find, Fight and Follow disease to deliver better patient outcomes. Headquartered in Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom, Lantheus has been providing radiopharmaceutical solutions for nearly 70 years. Today, we're expanding our portfolio and pipeline across oncology, neurology and cardiology. Through recent acquisitions, along with strategic partnerships across the life sciences ecosystem, we are accelerating our efforts to advance precision medicine and improve patient outcomes around the world. At Lantheus we are purpose-driven, and every employee plays a vital role in our success. We're dedicated to cultivating a high-growth, forward-thinking culture where innovation thrives and diverse perspectives drive meaningful progress. Join us and be part of a company where your contributions make a real impact, because we know someone's health is in our hands. Summary We are seeking an exceptional, hands-on Associate Director, R&D IT leader that is a highly hands-on technology and people leader responsible for end-to-end IT partnerships, solution delivery, and operational support across the company's radiopharmaceutical Research & Development organization. This role is intentionally designed for a lean, asset-centric R&D environment. The leader will operate as a Swiss Army knife, personally executing across the full solution lifecycle-from scientific and clinical business partnership through solution design, configuration or development, testing, validation, deployment, and production support-while also managing vendors, budget, and a small internal team The role serves as the primary IT partner for asset-focused R&D functions, including: Medical Affairs Medical Imaging Clinical Operations Regulatory Affairs Research & Pharmaceutical Development (RPD) Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety Clinical Science Biomarkers Biometrics / Data Sciences Pharma Solutions & Asset Management
The ideal candidate brings a very hands-on all-round credibility in the R&D space across all the functions above, working with business and customer stakeholders for meeting business needs with technology, architectural and design leadership, hands-on development, scrappy and roll up your sleeve implementation expertise, providing solutions support for testing, post go-live support and validation activities throughout the lifecycle. A successful candidate has a deep understanding of R&D asset lifecycles, key R&D applications and systems across the business portfolio, study strategies, regulatory and quality needs, development milestones and all R&D data needs including analytics and reporting needs, future focused R&D data products, AI and Gen AI use cases that bring tangible ROI to the R&D organization, translates scientific, clinical, imaging, safety, and regulatory needs into pragmatic, compliant technology solutions, has high level of influencing experience and successes in steering business partners towards standard IT solutions vs solutions they may prefer, and balances speed, quality, and compliance in a fast-moving radiopharmaceutical R&D environment. This role will shape the enterprise's R&D IT journey as R&D grows from a business standpoint across all business functions, integrates R&D focused organizations as part of Lantheus 3.0 and external business partners in CRO's and similar organizations. This position is based in Massachusetts and requires a presence on-site (two/three) days per week, and open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions Enterprise R&D IT Strategy, Operations & Support 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
Business Partnering and Stakeholder Management 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.
Training & Change Management 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.
Governance & Risk Management 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.
Operational & Delivery Excellence 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.
People Leadership & Culture Building 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.
Financial & Portfolio Management 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 busines
Lantheus (NASDAQ: LNTH) is the leading radiopharmaceutical-focused company, delivering life-changing science to enable clinicians to Find, Fight and Follow disease to deliver better patient outcomes. Headquartered in Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom, Lantheus has been providing radiopharmaceutical solutions for nearly 70 years. Today, we're expanding our portfolio and pipeline across oncology, neurology and cardiology. Through recent acquisitions, along with strategic partnerships across the life sciences ecosystem, we are accelerating our efforts to advance precision medicine and improve patient outcomes around the world. At Lantheus we are purpose-driven, and every employee plays a vital role in our success. We're dedicated to cultivating a high-growth, forward-thinking culture where innovation thrives and diverse perspectives drive meaningful progress. Join us and be part of a company where your contributions make a real impact, because we know someone's health is in our hands. Summary We are seeking an exceptional, hands-on Associate Director, R&D IT leader that is a highly hands-on technology and people leader responsible for end-to-end IT partnerships, solution delivery, and operational support across the company's radiopharmaceutical Research & Development organization. This role is intentionally designed for a lean, asset-centric R&D environment. The leader will operate as a Swiss Army knife, personally executing across the full solution lifecycle-from scientific and clinical business partnership through solution design, configuration or development, testing, validation, deployment, and production support-while also managing vendors, budget, and a small internal team The role serves as the primary IT partner for asset-focused R&D functions, including: Medical Affairs Medical Imaging Clinical Operations Regulatory Affairs Research & Pharmaceutical Development (RPD) Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety Clinical Science Biomarkers Biometrics / Data Sciences Pharma Solutions & Asset Management
The ideal candidate brings a very hands-on all-round credibility in the R&D space across all the functions above, working with business and customer stakeholders for meeting business needs with technology, architectural and design leadership, hands-on development, scrappy and roll up your sleeve implementation expertise, providing solutions support for testing, post go-live support and validation activities throughout the lifecycle. A successful candidate has a deep understanding of R&D asset lifecycles, key R&D applications and systems across the business portfolio, study strategies, regulatory and quality needs, development milestones and all R&D data needs including analytics and reporting needs, future focused R&D data products, AI and Gen AI use cases that bring tangible ROI to the R&D organization, translates scientific, clinical, imaging, safety, and regulatory needs into pragmatic, compliant technology solutions, has high level of influencing experience and successes in steering business partners towards standard IT solutions vs solutions they may prefer, and balances speed, quality, and compliance in a fast-moving radiopharmaceutical R&D environment. This role will shape the enterprise's R&D IT journey as R&D grows from a business standpoint across all business functions, integrates R&D focused organizations as part of Lantheus 3.0 and external business partners in CRO's and similar organizations. This position is based in Massachusetts and requires a presence on-site (two/three) days per week, and open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions Enterprise R&D IT Strategy, Operations & Support 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
Business Partnering and Stakeholder Management 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.
Training & Change Management 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.
Governance & Risk Management 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.
Operational & Delivery Excellence 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.
People Leadership & Culture Building 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.
Financial & Portfolio Management 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 busines