Associate Director

Location: Hyderabad

Role: Associate Director, GDD Data Team

Function & Responsibilities: Development Data Team is responsible to design and execute data management strategy across Drug Development line functions i.e. Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Standards, Technical Research & Development, Regulatory Affairs and Patient Safety. Function also collaborates with cross domains such as Technical Operations, Research, Finance, Procurement etc within Novartis.
Associate Director has the core responsibility to lead and drive data governance, data quality, master & reference data, data catalog, data lineage, and stewardship projects with senior level stakeholders, data leaders, business SMEs, architects, modelers and data engineers. He / she will be responsible to identify, validate and help realize business value from data projects. Must have pharma & lifecycle domain expertise to drive large scale data programs with business, operations and technology partners.

Your Responsibilities Include but are not limited to:
• Hands on experience to manage Business Glossary, Technical Metadata, Data Lineage, Data Quality, Data Profiling, Master & Reference Data using tools such as Collibra, Informatica, EBX is a Mandatory skill to be successful in this role.
• Extensive knowledge of Developing Data Strategy, Process Improvement, Data Management Problem Identification & Validation.
• Associate director works with senior customers in business, operations & technology to define data management roadmap. Also accountable to chair data council and working groups within the assigned domains.
• Experience of working on data standards such as CDISC, IDMP, IMDRF, MEDDRA, WHODRUG will be added advantage. Ability to challenge status quo, asking relevant data management questions, effectively summarizing current state, bringing insights, and recommending the directions for target state, developing strong working relationship and influencing variety of stakeholder groups is a must have skill.
• Experience in performing data maturity assessment by using industry agnostic frameworks such as DCAM.
• This role reports to Enterprise Data Owner for Drug Development domain.
• Should have experience in program management including project financials. Demonstrated experience in developing data policy, data management framework, guidelines and standards.
• Knowledge of data management tools such as Collibra, EBX Tibco, Informatica, or any data quality, data governance and master data tools.