Director, Data Acquisition and Governance

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee compliant Commercial Data Governance and Acquisition operations, processes, standards, controls, and policies, with a focus on continuous improvement, scalability, risk management, and operational efficiency.
• Lead governance, contracting coordination, onboarding readiness, access planning, and operational transition for approved new data assets, including collaborating across functions to confirm requirements and partnering with Technology / Data Management to ensure systems readiness.
• Provide governance, vendor, contracting, access, and operational input to Executives, Directors, and cross-functional partners related to new and existing data assets.
• Identify and act on opportunities to consolidate vendors, rationalize overlapping services, improve contractual efficiency, streamline onboarding, reduce operational complexity, and optimize value across commercial data assets.
• Provide expertise on current data assets and establish controls, documentation standards, governance checkpoints, and catalog practices
• Partner with Procurement, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Finance, business stakeholders, and vendors to develop contracting and renewal strategies that optimize data spend, data rights, usage terms, access requirements, vendor deliverables, service levels, and long-term value.
• Serve as the governance and vendor lifecycle lead across GCCI responsible for maintaining our organizational data standards, controls and operating procedures.
• Oversee data vendor partners, including vendor performance routines, training coordination, service expectations, issue management processes, escalation pathways, data quality follow-through, and continuous improvement actions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to advise on commercial data assets, vendor governance, permitted-use considerations, access pathways, operational processes, data stewardship, and vendor performance.
• Collaborate with Technology, Data Management, and Data Science teams to ensure approved data assets are technically feasible, operationally supportable, appropriately documented, accessible through approved pathways, and aligned to governance standards.
• Communicate critical vendor changes, product additions, data availability updates, access impacts, operational risks, governance decisions, and issue escalations to senior leadership and impacted stakeholders.
• Provide governance, vendor, contracting, budget, and operational input into data strategy prioritization and key areas of business impact.
• Serve as Point of Contact (POC) for US Healthcare Audit and other relevant data acquisition audits in partnership with Commercial Data Strategy leadership, Corporate Audit, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and Procurement; oversee data purchase documentation, evidence collection, remediation plans, control follow-through, and audit completion.
• Manage commercial data acquisition budget planning inputs, vendor spend tracking, renewal visibility, resource planning, team execution, and contractor/vendor support required to sustain governance and operational delivery.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of data acquisition, data governance, commercial data operations, vendor management, commercial analytics, data strategy, or a related field experience OR
• Masters degree and 8 years of data acquisition, data governance, commercial data operations, vendor management, commercial analytics, data strategy, or a related field experience OR
• Bachelors degree and 10 years of data acquisition, data governance, commercial data operations, vendor management, commercial analytics, data strategy, or a related field experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above