Director, Media Analytics

Location: US - Walkersville, MD. Based in the Walkersville office, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM EST.

Full-time base annual salary: $208,100–$238,650, plus a performance-related bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a life sciences company with more than 30 sites across five continents, manufacturing medicines and supporting customers’ therapeutic development.

What you will do

• Define and execute the global Media Analytics strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap aligned with MSAT and Bioscience priorities.
• Lead advanced analytics integrating raw material, formulation, process, manufacturing, quality, stability, and customer performance data.
• Establish data governance, analytical frameworks, model lifecycle controls, documentation, validation strategies, and performance monitoring.
• Build, develop, and mentor analytical and data science teams, including technical career pathways and succession plans.
• Manage the analytics portfolio and partner with MSAT, Operations, Quality, R&D, Digital/IT, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams on scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for product testing, raw material characterization, method validation, process validation, continued process verification, comparability assessments, and complex investigations while presenting insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytical Chemistry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of experience leading technical teams and managing complex cross-functional portfolios.
• Extensive experience in cell culture media analytics and raw material characterization.
• Advanced expertise with ICP-MS, HPLC/UHPLC, IC, GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, FTIR microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and NIR spectroscopy.
• Strong experience investigating impurities, contaminants, raw material variability, and complex analytical challenges.
• Deep knowledge of analytical chemistry, method development, validation, transfer, data analysis, and interpretation.
• Advanced understanding of cGMP requirements, data integrity principles, validation methodologies, and quality systems.
• Experience with multivariate statistics, advanced data analytics, risk-based decision-making, data governance standards, analytical validation strategies, and sustainable operating models.
• Working knowledge of machine learning, data pipelines, databases, cloud-based analytics platforms, data visualization tools, and statistical programming environments.
• Ability to connect media formulation and raw material variability to process performance, product quality, manufacturing capability, and customer outcomes.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, technical writing, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to simplify complex scientific concepts into business decisions and actionable recommendations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration, accountability, excellence, passion, and integrity are core values.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) matching plan and life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance and employee assistance programs.
• Paid time off and performance-related bonus.
• Equal employment opportunities are provided to qualified applicants.