Sr. Dir , US Core Data Domains, Products and Services

Job Title

We are seeking an experienced, strategic leader to own and evolve the portfolio of core commercial data domains & data products and services for the US Market aligned Human Health (HH) organization.

Position Responsibilities

Role Overview:
Responsible to frame the strategic vision and enable efficient and effective delivery of US-focused Core Human Health (HH) data domains, ensuring all commercial data is optimized, governed, engineered for scale, and leveraged for immediate analytical, business, and GenAI use cases.

Strategic Leadership & Vision:

• Define the Portfolio Strategy:
  Execute a commercial data product portfolio strategy that prioritizes high-value use cases, drives ROI on third-party spend, and unlocks first-party data value.
• Own the Product Lifecycle:
  Direct the vision, roadmaps, requirements, delivery milestones, release management, and adoption metrics for a suite of core commercial data products.
• Operational Excellence & Cost Management:
  Drive efficiencies across high-volume data products, optimizing data pipeline compute costs and ensuring strict adherence to reliability and SLA standards at enterprise scale.
• Demand & Budget Management:
  Partner with US Market aligned teams from DHH, HH, IT, and Finance to understand broader data needs, enable demand management based on resourcing/budgets, and negotiate timelines.

Data Architecture & Engineering:

• GenAI-Powered Product Delivery:
  Partner with Foundational Capability teams to leverage GenAI-ready infrastructure (curated semantic layers, vector stores, RAG pipelines) to build, scale, and deploy robust GenAI-powered commercial data products.
• Medallion Architecture Execution:
  Develop and manage high-volume data product solutions aligned to the Medallion architecture (gold/"part of" silver) to enable HH capabilities.
• Pipeline Management:
  Lead development and management of data pipelines on commercial data platforms (e.g., Databricks) ensuring extreme reliability, performance, and scalability across all data layers.

Product Delivery & Domain Management:

• HH Domain Ownership:
  Oversee data domains and product development for Performance management, Marketing mix, Campaign analytics, Field reporting, Patient, HCP, Account/Payer analytics, and Omnichannel execution.
• Requirement Translation:
  Translate commercial stakeholders' objectives into clear product requirements and prioritized backlogs; ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, reusable, and production-ready.

Cross-Functional Governance:

• CDAO & Tech Alignment:
  Partner closely with Central Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) on ingestion patterns, and coordinate with the CTO and Commercial Capabilities teams to maintain technical infrastructure.
• Compliance by Design:
  Embed data governance, data quality, privacy, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA where applicable) directly into product design.

Team Leadership & Innovation:

• Grow a Multidisciplinary Org:
  Lead product managers, data product engineers, and solution architects focused on delivering production-grade, highly reliable data services.
• Team Health & Global Alignment:
  Manage delivery execution while working closely with International data organization(s), Central Data teams, Divisional teams and Enterprise teams to cascade best practices across teams globally.

Behavioral Competencies required:

• Cross-Functional Leadership & Matrix Management:
• Collaborative alignment:
  Proven track record of leading large, high-performing cross-functional teams across IT, Commercial, and Central Data functions.
• Enterprise representation:
  Confidently represents the data organization in Legal, Privacy, and Global Ethics forums to drive risk mitigation strategies.
• Accountability & Delivery Excellence:
• Autonomous execution:
  Operates independently with a strong sense of ownership over timelines, product quality, and delivery excellence.
• Financial stewardship:
  Highly accountable for managing budgets, driving operational efficiencies, and optimizing compute/cloud costs at scale.
• AI-Native Mindset & Continuous Improvement:
• Challenges the status quo:
  Consistently looks for ways to modernize legacy processes and embed AI-assisted workflows into standard operations.
• Adaptable leadership:
  Navigates changing business priorities while maintaining stability and reliability for core data products.
• Strategic Vision with Operational Focus:
• Anticipates gaps:
  Strategically understands the commercial business portfolio and proactively identifies data gaps or opportunities.
• Scalable thinking:
  Balances immediate business needs with the necessity of building long-term, scalable, and highly reliable architectural solutions.

Functional Competencies Required

• Core Healthcare Data Domain Expertise:
• Deep domain knowledge:
  Extensive expertise in core commercial pharma data domains, including Patient claims, Rx, market access, HCP, specialty pharmacy, and CRM data.
• Data synthesis:
  Proven ability to work with enterprise/central data functions to synthesize a wide array of structured and unstructured pharma datasets.
• Data…