Senior Director, Business Strategy Lead

Position Description Summary

The Senior Director, Business Strategy Lead for Research & Search is a key strategic and operational partner to CSL’s global Research & Search function. This role ensures that critical business operations, including outsourcing, vendor management, budget oversight, resource allocation, and capital planning, align with CSL’s corporate objectives and scientific priorities, enabling efficient research execution, scientific innovation, and sustainable global growth.

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Strategic Leadership

• Serve as a member of the Research & Search senior leadership team, contributing to vision, strategy, and operational excellence.
• Lead change management initiatives to guide the global Research & Search function through significant organizational transformation, ensuring alignment, adoption, and sustained success across regions and teams.
• Shape long-term operational strategies to enable scientific innovation and global scalability.
• Drive continuous improvement of processes, technologies, and resourcing models to support functional growth.
  
  

Operational Oversight

• Act as the primary point of contact for global Research & Search business operations, including outsourcing, vendor management, budget oversight, resource management, and capital planning.
• Collaborate with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and monthly/quarterly close activities.
• Lead process improvement initiatives across global research site operations, including lab workflows and efficiency enhancements.
  
  

Vendor & Contract Management

• Initiate and manage vendor engagements based on functional needs.
• Partner with the Contracts Center of Excellence to drive contract execution, resolve issues, and maintain strong business relationships.
• Negotiate and execute highly sensitive research collaboration agreements.
• Monitor contract execution and ensure compliance with functional requirements.
• Oversee third-party services supporting global research labs and external testing activities.
  
  

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, or science-related field; advanced degree or MBA preferred.
• 12 years of experience in R&D operations or business support roles, ideally in a global environment.
• Experience leading complex change initiatives in global R&D environments.
• Proven experience managing research vendors and laboratory operations.
• Strong coordination and collaboration skills with enabling functions.
• Demonstrated success working in cross-functional R&D teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
  
  

About CSL Behring

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.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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You Belong at CSL

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.

To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.