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About This Role

The Associate Director, Data Management within US Decision Sciences / Data & Analytics provides strategic and executional leadership across commercial data domains, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality, analytics-ready data to support insights, reporting, and field execution at scale.

The Associate Director owns complex, cross-domain data initiatives, sets standards and best practices for data management, and serves as a primary thought partner to Analytics, Reporting, Field Operations, IT, and senior stakeholders. The role goes beyond execution to shape the data management roadmap for 1-2 brands, proactively address systemic data challenges, and drive continuous improvement across platforms, vendors, and processes.

What You’ll Do

• Own strategy and execution for multiple commercial data domains, ensuring reliable, analytics-ready data delivery.

• Lead complex, cross-functional data initiatives that span analytics, reporting, field execution, and technology teams.

• Set data management standards, controls, and best practices to improve consistency, quality, and reuse.

• Oversee end-to-end data pipelines across sources, platforms, and vendors, ensuring scalability and sustainability.

• Translate ambiguous business and analytics needs into clear data solutions and execution plans.

• Partner closely with Analytics and Reporting leaders to shape data approaches aligned to evolving business priorities.

• Act as a senior escalation point for data quality, availability, and vendor-related issues; drive root-cause resolution.

• Guide IT and platform teams on data design decisions, tradeoffs, and sequencing.

• Evaluate vendor performance and influence roadmap decisions related to data onboarding, refresh cadence, and enhancements.

• Ensure robust documentation of data definitions, lineage, assumptions, and limitations across domains.

• Identify systemic data gaps and proactively propose pragmatic, forward-looking solutions.

• Mentor and provide informal leadership to managers and senior managers within Data Management.

Who You Are

A seasoned data leader who combines strategic thinking with strong execution discipline. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making informed tradeoffs under constraints. A trusted partner to senior analytics, business, and IT stakeholders. A proactive problem solver who anticipates issues before they impact the business. Influential without authority, able to align diverse teams around shared outcomes.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required (Data Sciences, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field). Master’s degree preferred (MS, MBA, or equivalent).

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in data management, analytics enablement, or related roles within biotech/pharma, healthcare, or consulting.

• Experience in people leadership (supervising direct reports).

• Deep experience with commercial data ecosystems (e.g., CRM, claims, Rx, specialty pharmacy, market and field data).

• Proven ownership of large-scale, multi-source data pipelines and analytics-ready data assets.

• Strong command of data quality frameworks, reconciliation methodologies, and governance practices.

• Experience defining data standards, operating models, and repeatable processes.

• Advanced working knowledge of SQL-based transformations and modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, cloud data warehouses).

• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with IT, analytics, reporting, and external vendors at a senior level.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Ability to operate independently and take initiative.

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