Associate Director, Data Strategy and Management

Associate Director, Data Strategy And Management

We are searching for the best talent for Associate Director, Data Strategy and Management to be in Horsham, PA.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

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Purpose:

We are seeking an accomplished and strategic leader to assume the role of Associate Director, Data Strategy and Management. This individual will lead and coordinate activities related to the consumption and transformation of data using AI to support data strategy, Data AI platforms, context layer, AI initiatives, incentive compensation, field and home office reporting, market analysis, analytics, and forecasting for our Immunology portfolio.

This individual governs all business process rules and provides regular communications regarding status of data quality and impact of market events to internal team members. They will collaborate with data vendors and agencies on data acquisition, onboarding and contracting and ensure value for data-related investments. Functioning as a subject matter authority, they will support ad hoc, data-centric business questions, and will partner with IT and business partners within the StAT (Strategy, Analytics and Transformation) team to proactively resolve data issues and support strategic data initiatives.

In addition, the successful candidate will collaborate within the Data Platforms team on data quality systems for AI driven data platform at data inception, data processing, and data outputs. This will improve trust and adoption and enhance confidence in the data ecosystem, improve data quality, and facilitate accurate and informed decision-making processes.

You will be responsible for:

• Apply organizational AI initiatives to lead the ongoing quality and application of JJIM data pipeline supporting the sales and marketing organization, ensuring high-quality data.
• Act as "go to" key contact within the StAT organization for data related needs, queries, and issues and advise business teams on the best data sources to leverage for a given business question or insight.
• Lead the data governance program of the assigned product portfolio; actively supervise data quality and apply AI to resolve data-related issues and disruptions.
• Lead data on-boarding /change management/ issue resolution/ data integration projects - build project plans, perform validation and organizational change activities.
• Lead data-centric projects to resolution, through resource management, execution, and communication (e.g. data onboarding, data events/disruptions).
• Collaborate with internal business partners on data validation and data coordination activities for both field-based (incentive compensation) internal reports/systems (sales reporting and sales forecasting).
• Engage business process owners to align on the action plan on the mitigation of data events/changes on various commercial operations processes (e.g., Incentive Compensation, Sales Forecasting etc.)
• Responsible for leading annual data purchase budgets for assigned portfolio, build POs and collaborate with finance, procurement and business owners on supervising spend.
• Maintain inventory of purchased data and promote organizational awareness and educational initiatives of data applications.
• Lead the evaluation of new data sources that may provide new insights, competitive advantage and help advise future data strategy.
• Ensure that data vendors align with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) by ensuring data quality, timely delivery, errors reported, time to resolution to data inquiries, account services etc.
• Pull through the implementation of a sophisticated AI QC Detection System (New/improved capability).
• Apply AI-driven anomaly detection to identify granular data gaps.
• Using AI QC platforms, detect and address data quality issues at all data processing/transformational stages.

Experience /

Qualifications:

• Validated experience of 10+ years in roles related to data management, analytics, insights or other commercial excellence areas within the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.
• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent in Business, Technology, Analytics or Health Sciences is required. A master's degree or equivalent experience is an asset.
• Proficient in data sources/products and expertise in using pharma industry syndicated/secondary data from leading vendors- IQVIA, Komodo, Symphony, SPP, patient claims, RWE/HEOR, IDN/ACO Affiliations.
• Previous experience in establishing and leading data partnerships with external vendors.
• Strong grasp of data analytics, AI, and machine learning concepts and their application to business operations.
• Knowledge of data querying/business intelligence tools and systems that allow for effective management of large data sets is…