Lead, In Silico Platform & AI Strategy

Evotec; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Evotec seeks a Lead In Silico Business Partner who will bridge Evotec's Drug Discovery Platforms with the global In Silico & AI organization. You will own demand, shape roadmaps, and orchestrate delivery across capability units, ensuring quality, timing and measurable value.

The role combines commercial mandate with scientific leadership, driving adoption beyond pilots and contributing to client proposals, pricing, and differentiating capabilities. Global multi-site coordination is required.

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in life sciences, chemistry, computational or data science, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in biotech, pharma, CRO, or a comparable science driven environment.
• Experience partnering with drug discovery platform functions such as DMPK, ADME/Tox, safety, screening, or omics.
• Evidence of in silico or AI solutions delivered into routine scientific use, not only into pilot.
• Experience working across multiple countries and sites in an international matrix organization.
• Fluent business English; an additional European language is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel occasionally between Evotec sites and to partner meetings.

Responsibilities

• Own the end to end relationship between the Drug Discovery Platforms segment and the In Silico & AI function globally, acting as the single accountable front door for all incoming demand so that work is scoped and staffed once, not duplicated across teams.
• Shape and own the in silico and AI roadmap for the platform business, with particular focus on ADMET/Safety and in vitro predictive safety (NAMs) as well as omics data generation, one of the three capabilities Evotec is industrializing as a differentiator.
• Capture, structure and prioritize demand from platform leadership, translating scientific and operational needs into clear, testable requirements together with Solution Managers, the AI Accelerator and Solutions & Data.
• Orchestrate the in silico contribution across Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Therapeutics Design, AI Accelerator and Solutions & Data, ensuring alignment, delivery quality and timely execution.
• Partner with the omics data generation platforms to turn generated data into governed, reusable data assets that compound across projects, in close collaboration with IT&Data.
• Drive adoption at scale, moving in silico and AI capability out of pilot and into routine platform operation in place of repeated proofs of concept.
• Provide structured input to segment and portfolio level prioritization, including demand visibility, cross unit dependencies, resourcing needs, investment cases and expected value.
• Contribute the in silico content to client proposals and bids where platform services are in scope, working with Commercial, Business Development and Global Portfolio Management on differentiation and pricing.
• Track and evidence the value delivered, including margin uplift on in silico influenced work, cycle time and de-risking impact, and in silico attributed revenue, feeding this back into prioritization.
• Serve as moderator and escalation point for conflicting priorities, with support from the In Silico function heads.
• Represent In Silico & AI in platform leadership forums and act as a change agent for new ways of working across a global, multi site organization.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Influence without authority

Communication skills

Commercial acumen

Project management

Change leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

PhD or MSc in life sciences, chemistry, computational or data science, engineering, or a related discipline

Tools

QSAR/ADMET prediction tools

Chemoinformatics software

PBPK/PKPD modelling

Job description

Evotec seeks a Lead In Silico Business Partner who will bridge Evotec's Drug Discovery Platforms with the global In Silico & AI organization. You will own demand, shape roadmaps, and orchestrate delivery across capability units, ensuring quality, timing and measurable value.

The role combines commercial mandate with scientific leadership, driving adoption beyond pilots and contributing to client proposals, pricing, and differentiating capabilities. Global multi-site coordination is required.