Director, Commercial Data Management & Governance
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JobgetherLife sciences
Based in the United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary215,000 - 235,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum of 15 years of related professional experience with a bachelor's degree, or 12 years with a master's degree, or equivalent experience.
- Required Skills
- SQLDatabricksHIPAA
Requirements
- Have at least 15 years of related professional experience with a bachelor's degree, 12 years with a master's degree, or equivalent experience.
- Bring extensive experience in data governance, data management, data quality, or commercial data operations.
- Have significant experience supporting commercial data in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or broader life sciences industry.
- Have established or matured data governance programs, policies, standards, and stewardship models.
- Demonstrate experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving adoption through influence and stakeholder engagement.
- Understand pharmaceutical commercial data domains and sources, including HCP/HCO customer master data, Veeva OpenData/Network, IQVIA OneKey, prescription data, specialty pharmacy and hub data, claims, and payer information.
- Understand master data management principles, including match/merge, survivorship, hierarchies, affiliations, and identity resolution.
- Be familiar with pharmaceutical privacy and compliance requirements, including HIPAA, PDMA, PDRP/opt-out, Open Payments and aggregate-spend reporting, state privacy laws, and third-party data-use restrictions.
- Be able to act as a business data owner, translate commercial requirements into actionable specifications, and oversee technical integration work.
- Have experience defining and governing certified metrics, business rules, and semantic layers for consistent reporting across systems and use cases.
- Have working knowledge of CRM platforms such as Veeva and the Databricks analytics platform, particularly for governed commercial data.
- Preferred: familiarity with Veeva Network, Reltio, Informatica, Collibra, or Alation; SQL; Immuta or Databricks Unity Catalog; product-launch governance; incentive compensation, territory alignment, targeting, or field reporting data; and CDMP or equivalent certification.
Responsibilities
- Establish and lead a scalable commercial data governance framework, including policies, standards, stewardship responsibilities, and a cross-functional governance council.
- Define data ownership, accountability, and decision rights across Commercial, IT, and external partners through a business glossary, stewardship model, and RACI framework.
- Serve as business owner of commercial data across CRM, data warehouse, analytics, and reporting environments, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and fitness for purpose.
- Translate business and analytics needs into data requirements, definitions, and acceptance criteria, and oversee technical integration and engineering work delivered by IT.
- Create and maintain certified commercial metric and business-rule definitions, governing documentation, approvals, versioning, and change control.
- Define business standards for HCP and HCO customer master data and govern product, payer, territory, and alignment reference data.
- Establish data quality standards, performance metrics, monitoring processes, and remediation workflows across commercial data domains.
- Develop and govern data cataloging, business glossary, metadata, and lineage practices across source systems, third-party feeds, analytics, and reporting.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Privacy teams to implement data controls and govern classification, access permissions, appropriate use, and audit-readiness documentation.
- Chair the data governance council, build cross-functional and external data-partner relationships, and advise senior leaders on governance strategy and complex data challenges.
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