Director, Media Analytics

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global Media Analytics strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap aligned with MSAT and Bioscience business priorities.
• Lead the development and deployment of advanced analytical approaches integrating raw material, formulation, process, manufacturing, quality, stability, and customer performance data.
• Establish data governance standards, analytical frameworks, model lifecycle controls, documentation practices, and performance monitoring processes.
• Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of analytical and data scientists while creating technical career pathways and succession plans.
• Prioritize and manage an analytics portfolio based on business value, strategic importance, supply and quality risk, feasibility, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with MSAT, Operations, Quality, R&D, Digital/IT, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to translate scientific and business challenges into scalable analytical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for product testing, raw material characterization, method validation, process validation, continued process verification, comparability assessments, and complex investigations.
• Champion the responsible use of statistics, machine learning, automation, and data visualization to support informed decision-making.
• Present analytical insights, risks, recommendations, and value realization to senior leadership, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive innovation by evaluating emerging technologies, analytical methodologies, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices.
• Ensure compliance with applicable cGMP, quality, EHS, data integrity, information security, and company requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Analytical Chemistry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline required.
• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience leading technical teams and managing complex cross-functional portfolios.
• Extensive experience in cell culture media analytics and raw material characterization.
• Advanced expertise with analytical techniques such as ICP-MS, HPLC/UHPLC, IC, GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, FTIR microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and NIR spectroscopy.
• Strong experience investigating impurities, contaminants, raw material variability, and complex analytical challenges.
• Deep knowledge of analytical chemistry, method development, validation, transfer, data analysis, and interpretation.
• Advanced understanding of cGMP requirements, data integrity principles, validation methodologies, and quality systems.
• Experience with multivariate statistics, advanced data analytics, and risk-based decision-making approaches.
• Working knowledge of machine learning, data pipelines, databases, cloud-based analytics platforms, data visualization tools, and statistical programming environments.
• Ability to connect media formulation and raw material variability to process performance, product quality, manufacturing capability, and customer outcomes.
• Experience establishing data governance standards, analytical validation strategies, and sustainable operating models.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, technical writing, and organizational leadership skills.
• Proven ability to simplify complex scientific concepts into clear business decisions and actionable recommendations.