Job ID292931BRPosition TitleExecutive Director Business Data ArchitectureApply to Job
Job Description
30,000+ associates in Pharma and Oncology are focused on getting our medicines to the patients that need them while providing value added services to Healthcare Providers. Our Digital Commercial Execution team has been formed to provide digital programs and solutions at scale that will have significant impact on the success of the enterprise and that are implemented at scale across our Pharma and Oncology businesses. These solutions are relevant to millions of customers and applicable to more than 100,000 daily interactions with Healthcare Providers. Play a key role in a team that will build an industry leading, future-proofed foundation that will power commercial teams by putting data, digital, and artificial intelligence in practice.
20 years of data waiting to be “cleaned & linked” - this role will help drive the development and execution of Novartis’ ambition to turn strategic data assets into actionable insights across the organization. This ambition is one of key pillars in the broader digital transformation happening at Novartis to be a ‘medicines and data science company’.
This strategic role will partner closely with the Head of Foundational Processes and the Head of Master Data to develop and deploy an industry-leading Business Data Architecture for Pharma and Oncology that will improve the impact of our sales and marketing teams. You will support our commercial business units to move from unstructured dirty data to clean & linked rich data that delivers insights through a portfolio of data and digital products that benefit customers and our patients.
As the Executive Director Business Data Architecture you will establish, accelerate, maintain and coordinate a complex portfolio of business processes such as master data management (MDM) domains, Data governance & stewardship of business data assets, digital content management and more. Furthermore, you will establish best-in-class capabilities in process management and ensure the processes enable the creation and sustainable implementation of a portfolio of digital products that will be used in our commercial organisation. You will inspire the team with an entrepreneurial mindset and the courage to push for innovation. You understand the BioPharma space, yet can translate critical business problems into complex technical language required by IT and Data services to solve for and deliver measureable outcomes.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Work closely with the Global Head of Foundational Processes to ensure data architecture and models allow data to be put to use in data systems and enable products
• Identify and prioritize critical processes to enable the portfolio of products being developed by the Global Product Owner team in Digital Commercial Execution (DCE)
• Consolidate business needs and ensure business process delivers against them
• Lead a team to ensure that each process is clearly defined, designed, documented and implemented.
• Hold process & system owners accountable for identifying the core harmonized processes and local nuances that need to be met
• Understand and coordinate process interdependencies
• Ensure blockages impeding processes or product teams are addressed, especially from IT enabling Infrastructure
• Lead organizational change management and application of continuous improvement principles
• Provide business process subject matter expertise, ensure adherence to common standards and build an overall foundational process capability with strong business ownership
• Maximize value and ensure feasibility at the intersection of business, customer/end-user, and technology – stakeholder management across these groups
Minimum requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
• University or Masters Degree with specialty in medicine and/or business, engineering/ computer science.
• 10+ years of combined experience in master data, transactional data, commercial operations and data quality
• Understanding of the IT and operational solutions underpinning the in-scope high-level processes that include: Data sourcing, Standardization/Harmonization; Ingestion, Stewardship (business), Governance; Data Quality Management; Consent management
• Experience and knowledge of business process optimization techniques, including Lean 6 sigma and automation, and interdependencies with IT and Data domains
• Commercial experience in various roles across global, region, and local and across disciplines (sales, marketing, etc) in the pharmaceutical industry
• Demonstrated experience with business process definition, creation, and maintenance
• Experience working on technical or analytical data products, with a deep understanding of customers & productisation
• Expertise in organization dynamics and culture, ability to gain trust and confidence at all levels in the organization, leadership and project management experience in global initiatives.
• Ability to communicate & influence at all levels of the organization in a matrixed environment
• Previous experience and strong mindset with systems thinking, continuous improvement and change management
• Entrepreneurial, agile, non-hierarchical mindset, constantly seeking better by gathering insights and using data feedback loops to iterate and re-invent, to address the problems customers are trying to solve
Why consider Novartis?
799 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2019. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.
Imagine what you could do at Novartis!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration, and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.
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