Senior Director, Global Landscaping & Strategy Lead

Company: CSL
Location: King of Prussia
Posted on: January 26, 2026

Job Description:

CSL's R&D organization is accelerating innovation to deliver greater impact for patients. With a project-led structure and a focus on collaboration, we’re building a future-ready team that thrives in dynamic biotech ecosystems. Joining CSL now means being part of an agile team committed to developing therapies that make a meaningful difference worldwide. Could you be our next Senior Director, Global Landscaping & Strategy Lead? The job is in our King of Prussia PA or Waltham MA Office. This is a hybrid position and is onsite three days a week. Position Description Summary ? Leads the global landscaping process across all TA areas and co-lead the Philly, NY, and DC region for CSL.? Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities ? External Innovation Strategic Landscaping & Intelligence? Create and manage as single source of truth to drive the external innovation process? Synthesize therapeutic area landscapes to identify priority opportunity lists, key players, innovation hotspots, and emerging trends across selected therapeutic areas or modalities? Ensure consistent tracking/monitoring of asset inflection points and deliver best-in-industry competitive landscapes of assets in development? Assess new landscaping tools and AI platforms to efficiency identify and monitor external opportunities (including Clin Trials, IP, etc.)? External Innovation Conference Strategy? Develop and lead conference strategy for sourcing/early business development meetings? Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define strategic objectives, target meetings, and key narratives for external engagements? Oversee coordination of conference preparation materials (e.g., landscape summaries, target lists, briefing documents) and post-conference follow-up processes.? Governance Process & Opportunity Advancement? Architect and oversee governance framework for evaluating and advancing external innovation opportunities, from intake to triage, review, and recommendation? Regional Ecosystem Co-Lead (with Head of Search) for Philadelphia and New York? Embedded in ecosystem and responsible for representing CSL to source innovation against all TA strategies? Maintain local relationships and ensure CSL EI priorities are amplified at key universities, incubators, local organizations, etc.? Partner closely with Search TA Leads to conduct regional searches, plan for regional engagements/conferences, and share regional news/developments? Hold and represent CSL at local external innovation events? Qualifications & Experience Requirements ? PhD, MD, or equivalent advanced scientific degree in life sciences required. ? 15 years of experience in pharma/biotech strategy, external innovation, R&D strategy, or corporate/business development roles.? Demonstrated ability to synthesize scientific, strategic, and competitive insights into clear recommendations for senior leadership.? Experience designing or managing governance processes and driving high-level decision-making forums.? Experience evaluating pre-clinical assets and clinical-stage drug candidates across multiple modalities (small molecules, biologics, cell/gene therapies, etc.)? LI-HYBRID About CSL Behring CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives. CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries. To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/ . Our Benefits For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL . You Belong at CSL At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future. To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging Equal Opportunity Employer CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement .

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