Strategic Data & AI Leader for Pharma R&D

Slalom; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Well-being reimbursement

Paid holidays & health options

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Pharma R&D Data & AI Strategist to translate ambitious scientific and business Data & AI strategies into measurable R&D outcomes. You will collaborate with senior R&D leaders, scientists, and technology partners to modernize data and AI capabilities across discovery to portfolio management.

You’ll help clients create scalable, governed enterprise data products and AI-enabled decision-making, aligning scientific priorities with executables and roadmaps in a dynamic consulting

Qualifications

• Significant experience in pharmaceutical/biotech R&D or consulting to R&D orgs.
• Experience translating scientific and clinical data into AI-enabled value.

Responsibilities

• Develop Data & AI strategies for pharmaceutical R&D, linking science and business to roadmaps.
• Partner with R&D leaders to identify high-value Data & AI opportunities based on impact, value, and feasibility.
• Shape strategies across target identification, biology, translational science, preclinical and clinical development, and trial operations.
• Unlock value from complex Research data: compound/molecular data, omics, imaging, biomarkers, literature.
• Unlock value from Clinical data: study/site/subject/endpoint/lab data and safety signals.
• Translate outcomes and AI use cases into data products, platform capabilities, governance, and operating models.
• Define domain-oriented data product strategies to improve data accessibility, quality, and reuse.
• Establish AI-ready data foundations with ontologies, metadata, and knowledge graphs.
• Design operating models to enable collaboration between scientists, data/AI teams and technology orgs.
• Shape GenAI and agentic AI strategies through copilots and research assistants.

Skills

Pharma R&D strategy

Data & AI strategy

Executive stakeholder mgmt

Life sciences data

GenAI / AI governance

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft/Azure

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

Slalom is seeking a Pharma R&D Data & AI Strategist to translate ambitious scientific and business Data & AI strategies into measurable R&D outcomes. You will collaborate with senior R&D leaders, scientists, and technology partners to modernize data and AI capabilities across discovery to portfolio management.

You’ll help clients create scalable, governed enterprise data products and AI-enabled decision-making, aligning scientific priorities with executables and roadmaps in a dynamic consulting