Scientific Portfolio Data Lead

Wellcome Sanger Institute • United Kingdom, England • Posted July 13, 2026

About the Role

Scientific Portfolio Data Lead
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.

Open Targets is seeking a proactive and delivery-focused Scientific Portfolio Data Lead to accelerate the sharing, curation and ingestion of genetics and genomics data across the Open Targets partnership.

This is a key role at the interface of research teams, pharma partners, operational programme teams, the Open Targets Platform team and senior stakeholders.

What you'll be doing
  • Lead coordination of data sharing across Open Targets research activities, ensuring that datasets are identified early, prepared appropriately and shared rapidly with partners.
  • Act as the main bridge between research teams, pharma partners, operational support teams and the Open Targets Platform team for data-sharing and ...