Director, Image Analysis & RPT

About Perceptive

Our mission is to shape the future of clinical research. With decades of experience and the brightest minds in the industry, we help the global biopharmaceutical industry bring new, advanced medical treatments to market, faster.

We seek to change the world, and with the support of our teams across the globe, we flourish together. At Perceptive, we are one team. We learn, grow and win together.

Are you ready to help change the world?

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH:
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

YOURSELF:
- Paid time off policy including holidays and sick time
- Internal growth and development programs & trainings

WEALTH:
401(k) program, life & accident insurance and disability insurance

About the role

As Director, Image Analysis & Radiopharmaceutical Therapy, you will provide integrated scientific and management leadership across imaging-driven clinical trials, providing scientific guidance on development of modelling, analysis design, results interpretation and dosimetry techniques to clinical trials. You are accountable for both the scientific integrity and end-to-end delivery of image analysis data supporting multi-center trials, including Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT) and advanced imaging modalities such as PET/SPECT and MRI. This role combines scientific leadership and oversight with functional and people management responsibility to ensure consistent, high-quality data delivery, robust methodology, and operational excellence aligned with business objectives and regulatory expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Scientific Leadership Responsibilities

• Act as the functional scientific authority for imaging and quantitative analysis methodologies, particularly in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy.
• Act as the senior external scientific interface for sponsors and key stakeholders, providing critical scientific input and guidance for interactions with sponsors regarding analysis design and results interpretation.
• Provide scientific leadership and authoritative scientific judgement on complex, high-risk clinical trials utilizing medical imaging and clinical data.
• Author, review, and approve scientific documentation including imaging guidelines, charters, and results summaries.
• Oversee the development and oversight of quantitative image analysis and dosimetry workflows.
• Ensure scientific rigor, regulatory readiness, and methodological consistency across Image Analysis studies.

Image Analysis Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Hold ultimate accountability for holistic image analysis data delivery across relevant programs and portfolios.
• Define and enforce standards, SOPs, quality frameworks, and delivery models for Image Analysis within the organisation.
• Set delivery performance expectations and monitor outcomes through leading senior‑level functional governance forums.
• Resolve escalated scientific, quality, or delivery risks.
• Partner cross‑functionally to ensure scalable, compliant delivery models align to agreed business priorities.
• ​Provide coaching and support to team for client interactions, including capabilities presentations, scientific & medical services support, and data presentation/interpretation. 
• Ensure timely, consistent, and high-quality data outputs.

People & Functional Leadership

• Lead and shape a high-performing global Image Analysis function, providing direction to Mangers, Scientist and Analyst teams, establishing clear accountability.
• Provide line management, coaching, and performance management for team members.
• Build and sustain a high-performing, engaged and diverse Image Analysis and Scientific organization with skills aligned to the business strategy and growth.
• Allocate resources effectively across a dynamic portfolio.
• ​​Develop future scientific and operational leaders.

• Coach managers on performance management, feedback, and talent development. 

• ​Ensure succession planning and skills readiness for critical roles. 
• Provide insight and develop business cases to support financial planning and decision‑making for investment priorities, capacity planning, and resourcing discussions.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Serve as the primary scientific and delivery point of contact for external stakeholders for Image Analysis and RPT capabilities.
• Translate scientific and operational requirements into executable strategies.
• Lead scientific consultation, delivery assurance discussions, issue resolution, and interpretation of results.
• Translate scientific and operational requirements into executable approaches.
• Facilitates business decision-making processes.  
• Represent Image Analysis and RPT capabilities in internal governance, prioritization, planning and strategic forums.

Other

• Carries out any other reasonably duties as requested.

Functional Competencies (Technical knowledge/Skills)

• ​Demonstrable knowledge of nuclear medicine imaging. 
• Demonstrable knowledge of relevant scientific terminology and practices. 
• Proven understanding of research methodologies and pragmatic application in a regulated environment. 
• Technical proficiency in image analysis and associated software platforms.
• Proven ability in other software packages (Microsoft Office, Matlab, etc). 
• Understanding of basic data analytics, meaningful trends, and implications on the quality control of results. 
• Wholistic understanding of data delivery processes.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. 
• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment. 
• Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks. 
• Ability to identify and implement process improvements, including management of stakeholders.
• Proactively grows skill through trainings and guides their team to do the same.
• Excellent mentor who can foster professional development and growth of their team.
• Ability to manage a globally distributed and multi disciplined team, including motivating, developing and coordinating team members.
• Organized leader and mentor with the ability to identify the appropriate leadership style to manage the individuals in their team. 
• Financial management and acumen, with an ability to strictly manage a complex and large budget to a demanding target.  
• ​Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect image analysis technology within the Life sciences domain and how it affects customers adopting our products.

Experience, Education, and Certifications

• Significant demonstrable experience in both academic and/or industrial instrumentation/ image processing environments. 
• ​Demonstrable experience in image analysis; key focus on modelling and dosimetry techniques. 
• Proven line management and leadership ability in the same or similar role.
• ​Solid proven experience of working in and knowledge of medical imaging or clinical development in the life sciences industry.  
• ​Experience using both knowledge and tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders and credibly represent the business. 
• ​Bachelor's Degree (Medical degree/ PhD) in a quantitative field, ideally
• in nuclear medicine, physics, biophysics or biomedical engineering, or equivalent project-related experience. 
• ​English: Fluent. 

This role is remote.  Candidates located in AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, MA, MO, NH, NJ, NC, PA, UT, VA are preferred. The annual base salary range for this role is $148,067- $211,523.  This range represents the anticipated initial annual salary and will vary depending on several factors including the candidate’s experience and skills as well as market rate adjustment.

Come as you are.
We're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.