Senior Director, Head of R&D; Resource Management (AI)

Location: Remote/Home-Based in Canada, Spain, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, or the United States

Base salary for US-based candidates: $228,000–$342,000 annually, plus potential bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a global biopharmaceutical company developing medicines for serious diseases, with a focus on sleep disorders, epilepsy, oncology, and neuroscience.

What you will do

• Define and execute the global R&D Resource Management strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
• Connect R&D functional leaders, global program teams, finance, and governance committees around resource planning and prioritization.
• Lead AI and machine-learning forecasting for FTE demand using historical effort, trial complexity, and portfolio velocity.
• Design and optimize Planisware algorithms, resource drivers, workload curves, and enterprise integrations.
• Deploy Named Allocation workforce-planning tools and manage analysis of capacity, skills shortages, bottlenecks, and burnout risks.
• Own resource analytics, dashboards, executive scorecards, scenario modeling, and actuals-versus-forecast reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business administration, data analytics, operations research, engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology R&D, life sciences consulting, or clinical operations.
• 6–8 years of hands-on leadership in enterprise resource management, portfolio analytics, or capacity planning within a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical organization.
• Mastery of Planisware, including algorithm customization, resource-driver setup, workload modeling, and system integration.
• Experience with quantitative analytics, data visualization platforms such as Power BI or Tableau, and AI/ML predictive tools.
• Experience leading Named Allocation, capacity planning, enterprise software deployment, executive governance, and multi-year planning cycles.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree, MBA, or Ph.D.
• Experience with Anaplan or Workday resource-management modules.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global, matrixed, patient-focused, and science-driven organization.
• Collaborate with scientists, operational leaders, finance teams, and executives across multiple countries.
• US-based employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation.
• Potential eligibility for annual cash bonus or incentive compensation and long-term equity grants.