Director, Data Strategy

🕒 August 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $185.5k - $344.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Novartis

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1996

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

Novartis is an innovative medicines company dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. With a presence in over 250 million patients worldwide, Novartis focuses on harnessing scientific breakthroughs to develop transformative, high-value treatments in areas such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, immunology, neuroscience, and oncology. The company is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and aims to create a positive impact through societal contributions and environmental sustainability efforts. Furthermore, Novartis engages in research collaborations and embraces modern technology platforms to advance their research and development capabilities, making them a leader in the global healthcare industry.

📋 Description

• Lead functional data strategy for Customer Engagement and Integrated Marketing Organization • Define roadmaps, priorities, capability needs, and success measures aligned to enterprise data strategy • Advance strategies supporting customer engagement, omnichannel activation, field execution, marketing effectiveness, segmentation, and integrated customer experience • Differentiate horizontal functional data needs from therapeutic area-specific, brand, launch, indication, and lifecycle needs • Ensure functional priorities are reflected in enterprise and therapeutic area roadmaps without duplicating accountabilities • Align business stakeholders, Data Strategy Leads, Insights & Analytics, Data Partnerships, Data Governance, Data Quality, technology, and vendor teams • Prioritize data requirements, sourcing decisions, governance expectations, adoption plans, and value realization • Drive portfolio transparency, reuse, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement of key functional data assets • Prepare executive-ready updates, roadmap views, KPI summaries, investment recommendations, and trade-off assessments • Establish and manage data partnerships with external data providers, platforms, and vendors • Leverage data insights and industry trends to strengthen collaboration and maximize the value of external data assets • Travel 20% domestically and/or internationally

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or equivalent experience preferred • Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience developing data, analytics, or data product strategies for life science companies • Strong understanding of life sciences data ecosystems • Ability to develop functional or domain-level data strategies, requirements, capability priorities, and success measures for customer engagement and/or marketing • Ability to distinguish horizontal functional data needs from therapeutic area-specific, brand, indication, launch, and lifecycle-specific needs • Experience aligning business, Insights & Analytics, Data Partnerships, Data Governance, Data Quality, technology, procurement, and vendor stakeholders • Strong strategic thinking and portfolio management • Executive communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders in a complex matrix environment • Extensive experience establishing and managing data partnerships • Deep understanding of the data partnership landscape and industry best practices for collaborating with external data providers, platforms, and vendors • Ability to navigate data-related privacy, security, quality, and compliance risks • Commitment to continuous improvement in data partnership strategy

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based cash incentive • Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards, depending on the level of the role • Comprehensive health, life and disability benefits • 401(k) with company contribution and match • Vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves • Remote work arrangement • Domestic and/or international travel opportunities/requirements