Data Foundation Manager

Company Description

Abb Vie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology,, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at .

Abb Vie is seeking an accomplished individual to fulfill the role of Data Foundation Manager within our OUS Commercial division with a special responsibility on Ontology, Analytics solutions and Master Data Management. In this pivotal position, you will play a significant role in defining and refining the core principles of Abb Vie’s Data Strategy, encompassing processes, behaviors, governance and systems, with a dedicated focus on understanding the specific data requirements of the company, the utilization of such data, and its alignment with the overarching Data Strategy.

The Data Foundation Manager bears the paramount responsibility of ensuring excellence of master and performance data and the mastery of centralized analytics platforms hitting all commercial business priorities reported by affiliates, areas and international teams. Part of role’s responsibility is also to manage and govern the MDM platforms, in particular Product MDM defining universal structure and harmonized master values valid across entire commercial organization and integrated into downstream systems whenever possible.

The role will lead multiple data related enhancement programs, including betterment of Analytics Platform which will require coordination with multifunctional teams and contractors globally. The role demands not only data expertise but also the ability to communicate effectively and persuasively across all organizational levels.

• Provide expert business input, requirements and advice to the Business Technology Solutions (BTS) department on data modelling and representation to reflect business expectations and visualization.
• Produce progress reports and maintain stakeholder communication regarding the data governance framework.
• Review business processes and workflows to enhance data management with a focused view on usability of the data and business priorities.
• Participate in designing the Ontology layer of Abb Vie International data offering providing the business perspectives under laying the data solutions and the demands reported.
• Ideate, design and coordinate governance model to orchestrate technology and business needs.
• Define demand prioritization model and clearly communicate with primary stakeholders and requestors.
• Inform releases’ scope and roadmaps of products assigned (Ontology, Reporting Layer, MDM instances and NGA platform) acting as Business Owner.
• Ensure full and smooth cooperation with BTS colleagues establishing transparent and trustful relationship partnering with them on product management.
• Support the issue and problem solving processes on need, e.g. anytime a business and/or functional input is required.
• Be the primary point of contact and trusted reference for affiliates, areas and international stakeholders with regards to Abb Vie data environment in their scope of responsibility.
• Capture requirements and business needs and help technology partners translating them into functional designs.
• Assure data processes are documented, understood and communicated effectively to international and local stakeholders.
• Define standards for entities and relationships within various business fields (e.g. customers, products, business structure).
• As a global data steward, define processes and governance for maintaining reference values of business entities.
• Enhance role of MDM, increase the ecosystem heading expansion of MDM interconnected processes and systems, empower perception of centrality and relevance on MDM in all stakeholders.
• Support implementation and success of main commercial reporting solutions and use cases with adequate data structure and reporting features.
• Collaborate with primary stakeholders in…