Associate Director, Commercial Data Strategy

Responsibilities

• Define and advance the roadmap for commercial data capabilities that support reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, and AI initiatives.
• Lead the end-to-end onboarding of new data sources, vendor assets, and commercial platforms within assigned data domains.
• Develop scalable playbooks and frameworks that drastically reduce time-to-value for new acquisitions.
• Partner with BTS and Data Engineering to define data requirements, transformation logic, and roadmaps, turning raw data into marketplace-ready, fit-for-purpose data products.
• Manage complex integration programs across highly matrixed teams (Business, APEX Enterprise, BTS, Legal, and Compliance).
• Facilitate prioritization, align competing business needs, and oversee source-to-target mapping and UAT readiness.
• Partner with Data Governance teams to ensure all onboarding processes adhere to enterprise standards.
• Drive the implementation of metadata management, business rules, and data quality controls directly into the onboarding lifecycle.
• Evaluate external vendor capabilities and manage ongoing relationships with data providers and implementation partners, ensuring operational readiness and optimized cost structures.
• Define the operational support models for onboarded data products.
• Drive enablement strategies that improve the discoverability, usability, and cross-functional adoption of domain data assets for reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in data strategy, data product management, analytics, business intelligence, or technology transformation.
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing enterprise data strategies, data products, or commercial analytics capabilities.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, semantic models, business metrics, and data quality principles.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), self-service analytics, governed data products, and AI-ready data ecosystems.
• Experience within the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Healthcare, or other highly regulated industries preferred.