R&D Process & Adoption Lead, Digital Transformation

Zoetis; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoetis seeks a Senior Principal Scientist to lead the Process Analysis & Adoption (PAA) Lead for VMRD Automation & Data Sciences. The role collaborates with scientific, clinical, and regulatory stakeholders to drive adoption of cross-functional R&D processes that accelerate discovery through development.

The candidate will own end-to-end process improvement, change adoption, and benefits realization, ensuring solutions are business-led, user-centered, and improve cycle time, quality, and data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, engineering, operations research, information systems, or related; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in process analysis/improvement and adoption within life sciences or adjacent regulated R&D environments; 3+ years in a people-leadership role.
• 5+ years applying Agile methodologies in an R&D product/platform context, including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog hygiene.
• Demonstrated delivery of multi-team process/digital transformations from discovery through adoption with measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the PAA team, defining norms, roles, responsibilities, and quality standards.
• Own the VMRD process analysis and adoption portfolio, prioritize opportunities, define scope and success metrics.
• Drive structured process discovery and optimization with an Agile focus, mapping current/future states and learning from docs vs. stakeholders.
• Coordinate adoption planning aligned with product discovery, delivery, release, and post-launch support.
• Identify stakeholders, readiness, adoption barriers, training needs, and communication strategies early.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Change management

Business analysis

Process mapping

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Miro

ELN/LIMS familiarity

Job description

Zoetis seeks a Senior Principal Scientist to lead the Process Analysis & Adoption (PAA) Lead for VMRD Automation & Data Sciences. The role collaborates with scientific, clinical, and regulatory stakeholders to drive adoption of cross-functional R&D processes that accelerate discovery through development.

The candidate will own end-to-end process improvement, change adoption, and benefits realization, ensuring solutions are business-led, user-centered, and improve cycle time, quality, and data