Senior Director, Head of Data Governance & Compliance

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, UK – London – New Oxford Street

Posted Date: Jan 13 2026

If you believe data governance should accelerate innovation - not slow it down - this role is for you. We’re looking for a transformational leader to modernize how governance is designed, delivered, and experienced across R&D.

Think policy-as-code
, responsible AI ready controls
, and federated ownership embedded in real workflows. Your mission is to ensure our data is trusted, compliant, and reusable by first intent
, so scientists and product teams can move faster with confidence.

• Set the strategy for R&D wide governance and compliance framework that directly underpins R&D digital transformation, grounded in real regulatory rigor (GxP, GDPR, HIPAA) and designed to enable innovation, not gate it.
• Build and modernize the governance function: standards, metadata/master data, lineage, and data quality, delivered through a federated model that empowers domains while keeping us interoperable.
• Embed governance in the flow of work by partnering with business and tech teams, making controls seamless, and measurable, across the lifecycle.
• Operationalize policy-as-code and adaptive compliance to reduce manual effort and accelerate decisions.
• Advance responsible AI governance (bias, explainability, monitoring) and pilot agent мон AI to automate stewardship where it makes sense.
• Champion a reuse culture so value creation and interoperability become default behaviors across R&D.
• Measure impact with clear KPIs for governance effectiveness, data quality, compliance, and engagement, continuously iterating based on analytics and feedback.

• A strategic, transformational leader who sees governance as an enabler
  , capable of influencing senior stakeholders andщее со * (complete list continues) ...