Director, AI Innovation & Emerging Capabilities — CSL Behring
NewCHF 68'000 - 103'000
CSL Behring · Bern (BE)
- Location
- Bern
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
SalaryCHF 68'000 - 103'000
Role overview
The Opportunity
The Director, AI Innovation & Emerging Capabilities leads the scouting, introduction, and scaling of AI and disruptive digital technologies across R&D.
This role serves as the function's primary horizon scanner and innovation translator, converting external signals into concrete R&D opportunities and building structured pathways from early-stage pilots to scaled capabilities.
- The Opportunity:
- The Director, AI Innovation & Emerging Capabilities leads the scouting, introduction, and scaling of AI and disruptive digital technologies across R&D.
Application process
- a future-back approach: define where R&D must be in 3–5 years, then work backward to identify the capability gaps and disruptive forces that must be addressed today
- Establish and manage a network of external relationships (research institutes, technology partners, innovation ecosystems) to maintain leading-edge awareness
- Triage and assess emerging threats and opportunities using structured evaluation frameworks before they surface in mainstream discourse Opportunity Translation & Framing:
- Translate complex external technology signals into concise, R&D-relevant opportunity briefs that leadership can act on
- Identify and articulate capability gaps between the current R&D operating model and what disruptive trends demand
Company and context
- The Director operates with a future-back mindset, ensuring the organization is not caught off-guard by technological disruption but instead positioned to capitalize on it.
- The Role: External Intelligence & Horizon Scanning:
- Continuously monitor the external AI and disruptive technology landscape to identify signals, trends, and emerging capabilities with potential R&D relevance
- Maintain a living map of the external innovation environment including academia, startups, vendors, and adjacent industries
- Introduce capabilities and approaches that would not organically surface through internal channels, deliberately expanding the organization's aperture of what is possible
- Develop compelling narratives and business cases for disruptive capabilities, tailored to senior R&D and cross-functional audiences Pilot Design & Capability Scaling:
- Design and govern a structured pipeline from exploratory pilot to production-scale capability, with defined stage-gates, success criteria, and go/no-go decision logic
- Lead proof-of-concept and pilot initiatives for high-potential disruptive technologies, ensuring rapid learning cycles and clear value demonstration
- Partner with delivery and product teams to transition successful pilots into scalable, embedded capabilities that measurably improve R&D execution
- Define and track performance metrics demonstrating that disruptive capabilities are delivering tangible, quantifiable impact on R&D outcomes Leadership Visibility & Strategic Influence:
Additional details
- Apply a future-back approach: define where R&D must be in 3–5 years, then work backward to identify the capability gaps and disruptive forces that must be addressed today
- Demonstrated track record of translating emerging technology trends into adopted value-generating capabilities within a large organization Deep knowledge of the curren
Notes and original content
- Demonstrated track record of translating emerging technology trends into adopted value-generating capabilities within a large organization
- Deep knowledge of the curren
