Sr Director, Enterprise Information Management & AI Governance

Senior Director, Enterprise Information Management & AI Governance

This is a strategic enterprise leadership role responsible for modernizing how the company organizes, governs and activates information as a trusted business asset. The Senior Director, Enterprise Information Management & AI Governance will establish the information management, semantic governance and responsible AI governance capabilities required to make data findable, understandable, reusable, trusted and ready for analytics, automation and AI.

This leader will help the company move faster with practical guardrails. They will bring structure to complex information challenges, connect business and technical teams, and enable responsible innovation in a life sciences environment where trust, ethics and regulatory expectations matter.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required.
• An advanced degree in Information Management, Business, Technology, Data Science, Analytics, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related discipline is preferred.

Experience and Capabilities

• Extensive experience leading enterprise information management, data governance, data strategy, data architecture, process transformation, AI governance or related transformation work in complex global organizations.
• Hands-on practitioner background in modern data and information disciplines such as metadata, lineage, data quality, stewardship, semantic modeling or enterprise data domains.
• Demonstrated success building governance models that improve speed, trust, reuse and accountability without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Experience applying continuous process improvement, Lean, Six Sigma or similar disciplines to simplify work, improve flow and drive measurable transformation preferred.
• Strong understanding of AI-ready data needs, including provenance, permitted use, transparency, explainability, monitoring and responsible AI governance.
• Experience operating in regulated, high-trust environments. Life sciences, healthcare, financial services or similarly complex industries preferred.
• Ability to turn complex governance concepts into practical workflows, decision rights, standards and adoption routines.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives, lead through a matrix and drive enterprise change.
• Highest personal and professional integrity with a strong commitment to ethical governance, responsible innovation and doing the right thing.

Success Profile

The successful candidate will bring real-world experience modernizing information management and governance in a complex enterprise. They will understand how data, process, technology, business context and risk intersect, and they will know how to create transformative outcomes using practical guardrails.

This leader will help the company make the innovation leap to an AI-forward organization, using modern practices to build competitive advantage across the breadth of our expertise in life sciences.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in North Carolina is $225,000.00$289,000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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