Process Analysis & Adoption Lead

Scorpion Therapeutics; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking an experienced leader to drive end-to-end process improvement across discovery through development. You will own the PAA and VMRD adoption portfolios, orchestrating agile, cross-functional changes to accelerate timelines while improving quality and data reuse.

Expect to lead a high-impact, matrixed team, define metrics, and ensure readiness and training across stakeholders. A strong background in life sciences R&D, change management, and BPMN/UML is essential for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, operations research, info systems, or related field.
• Advanced degree preferred for higher impact roles.
• 10+ years in process analysis/improvement and adoption in life sciences/regulated R&D.
• 3+ years in people leadership; 5+ years Agile in R&D product/platform context.
• Delivered multi-team transformations with measurable outcomes; strong business analysis.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and lead the PAA team; define operating norms, roles, responsibilities, and manage capacity/workload.
• Own the VMRD process analysis and adoption portfolio; prioritize opportunities, define scope and metrics, manage benefits reporting.
• Lead Agile-focused discovery/optimization; map current/future states; define epics and user stories; plan adoption.
• Enable reuse via cross-use-case pattern recognition.
• Conduct business analysis for digital/lab automation; define KPIs for digital benefits.
• Orchestrate adoption/change management; stakeholder analyses, training, communications, KPI monitoring.
• Establish standard templates/methods; coordinate with Quality/Compliance for GxP/data integrity; manage risks/milestones.
• Maintain instructional materials library; coach specialists.

Skills

Process improvement

Agile Scrum

Leadership

Stakeholder facilitation

Business analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Miro

BPMN/UML

ADKAR/PROSCI

Job description

Position Summary

• Partner with scientific, clinical, and regulatory stakeholders to lead evaluation, optimization, and adoption of cross-functional R&D processes to accelerate discovery through development.
• Own the end-to-end process improvement and change adoption portfolio (discovery/analysis → solution definition → delivery readiness → training → benefits realization), improving cycle time, quality, compliance, and reuse of scientific data.
• Drive cross-functional innovation through leadership, change management, and collaboration.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Evolve and lead the PAA team; define operating norms, roles, responsibilities, quality standards, and manage capacity/workload.
• Own the VMRD process analysis and adoption portfolio (prioritize opportunities, define scope/success metrics/sequence, manage benefits tracking/reporting).
• Lead Agile-focused structured process discovery/optimization (define epics/user stories; map current/future states; gather source materials; align adoption planning with discovery/delivery/release/post-launch; identify stakeholders, readiness concerns, barriers, training, and comms).
• Enable reuse via cross-use-case pattern recognition.
• Conduct business analysis for digital/lab automation (validate user stories/acceptance criteria aligned to FAIR where pertinent; partner with ADS/ZTD and vendors; define KPIs for digital benefits).
• Orchestrate adoption/change management (stakeholder analyses, communications, training curricula, hypercare; communities of practice; monitor adoption KPIs and remove barriers).
• Establish standard PAA templates/methods; define initiative success metrics/measurement plans; coordinate with Quality/Compliance for GxP/data integrity where applicable; align program dependencies/risks/milestones and ensure readiness/handoffs.
• Maintain instructional materials library, benchmark/pilot high-ROI innovations, coach/mentor specialists.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s in relevant field (life sciences, engineering, operations research, info systems, or related); advanced degree preferred.
• Experience: 10+ years process analysis/improvement and adoption in life sciences/regulated R&D; 3+ years people leadership; 5+ years Agile in R&D product/platform context (epics/user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog hygiene); delivered multi-team transformations with measurable outcomes; strong business analysis (requirements elicitation, process/data modeling, refinement).
• Skills: Agile/Scrum (acceptance criteria, backlog refinement), familiarity with Waterfall/SDLC; BRDs/FRDs, BPMN/UML/use cases; process mapping; stakeholder facilitation; UAT planning/execution and defect triage support.
• Change management toolkit (e.g., PROSCI/ADKAR) and learning design; tool proficiency (e.g., Miro, discovery/process templates, stakeholder/journey maps, adoption plans, shared repositories).
• Knowledge of scientific workflows/tools (material registration, ELN/LIMS, instrument data capture, lab automation) and FAIR; Lean/Six Sigma certification preferred.
• Familiarity with data products/analytics, metadata, data quality/lineage, source-of-truth concepts.
• Organized, resilient, delivery-focused; navigate ambiguity and matrixed teams.