About the Position

Platform Delivery, Senior Director (Remote)

United Kingdom, London

Regular

About the Team

Reporting to the VP, Professional Services, EMEA, The Senior Director, Platform Delivery at Medidata serves as the ultimate champion for the customer at the services level. The core mission is to shift the delivery paradigm from fragmented, product-specific interactions to a unified platform-level experience (the Medidata Clinical Cloud). By unifying the Professional Services, Implementation, and Centre of Excellence (COE) teams, this leader ensures clients maximize the value of their tech investment. This, in turn, drives long-term retention, platform adoption, and operational excellence.

Additionally, you will lead our Multi-Product Enterprise Agreement (EA) Platform Delivery Strategy across one or more accounts. As the ultimate owner of multi-product platform delivery, you will manage large-scale governance structures. You will build out specialized Centres of Excellence (COE) and operate as a true peer to Sales, Product, and Engineering. Your goal is to ensure long-term customer health, adoption, and account expansion.

Responsibilities

Holistic Customer Ownership (Services Level)

Unified Delivery Voice: Serve as the escalation point and strategic partner for key accounts, ensuring a seamless journey from post-sales implementation to ongoing lifecycle management.
Value Realisation: Shift the services relationship from tactical troubleshooting to strategic partnership, focusing on clinical trial optimisation, faster study build times, and Value.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Bridge the gap between Sales, Product/R&D, and Customer Success to ensure client feedback directly shapes the Medidata product roadmap.

Platform-Level Delivery Paradigm

De-silo the Experience: Eradicate the "individual product" approach (e.g., treating Rave EDC, RTSM, and eCOA as disconnected silos). Implement a delivery framework that presents Medidata as an interconnected ecosystem.
Integrated Solutions Architecture: Ensure implementation blueprints treat data as a continuous stream across the clinical trial lifecycle, optimising workflows for sponsors and CROs rather than configuring isolated modules.

Driving the COE & Implementation Teams

Scale the Centre of Excellence (COE): Transform the COE into a powerhouse for global best practices, standardising study build configurations, reusable templates, and governance models that accelerate time-to-live.
High-Performance Execution: Mentor a high-calibre implementation team, optimising resource allocation, utilisation rates, and delivery speed without sacrificing quality or regulatory compliance.
Change Management: Champion internal and external change management to help clients adopt modern, decentralised, or hybrid clinical trial designs enabled by the platform.

Deep Product & Domain Fluency

Technical Credibility: Maintain a strong conceptual and operational understanding of Medidata's core architecture, APIs, and data integrations.
Industry Expert: Combine product knowledge with deep life sciences/clinical trials domain expertise. This expertise enables you to speak the language of clinical operations executives. By doing so, you ensure data integrity, compliance (FDA, GCP), and security are baked into every services engagement.

Requirements

Experience Level: Extensive and proven years of leadership experience within clinical trials life sciences operational delivery, including clinical technology deployment and adoption dealing with complex customer delivery programs Director or Senior Director level.
Organisational Transformation: Demonstrated experience turning fragmented, reactive operations into structured, scalable frameworks.
Matrix Leadership: Experience managing complex delivery teams consisting of Program/Project Managers, Specialised delivery teams globally, including customer-facing governance leadership.
Executive Presence: Outstanding stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence C-suite clients and internal product/sales peers.

We Offer

Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides benefits, including medical, dental, family leave, life and disability insurance, a generous pension, and 25+ paid holidays per year.

About the Company

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating over 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 38,000 trials and 12 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million registered users across approximately 2,300 customers trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. A Dassault Systèmes brand (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has been recognized as a Leader by Everest Group and IDC. Discover more at www.medidata.com.

Inclusion Statement

As a game-changer in sustainable technology and innovation, Dassault Systèmes is striving to build more inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. We believe that our people are our number one asset and we want all employees to feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. It is our goal that our people feel a sense of pride and a passion for belonging. As a company leading change, it’s our responsibility to foster opportunities for all people to participate in a harmonized Workforce of the Future.

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