AD, Data Governance

BoehringerPRD•Brampton, ON

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The AD, Data Governance leads governance and operational oversight of our de‑identified patient data and platform, ensuring all datasets meet privacy, compliance, and analytic readiness standards. This role manages data ingestion and validation workflows, oversees schema governance and secure data access and controls, and serves as a key liaison between analytics, IT, privacy, and external data partners. This includes coordinating and implementing RRD (Re‑Identification Risk Determination) assessments and applying any resulting required remediations. The role also guides use case reviews and the approval process to ensure that any access to de‑identified patient data meets governance, privacy, and compliance requirements, while enabling timely, trusted analytics for our brands. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies´ success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim´s high regard for our employees.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and seven (7) years of related pharmaceutical industry experience with five (5) years of secondary data experience in sales operations, sales/marketing analytics, market research, managed markets or business Analysis; OR Master's degree from an accredited institution and five (5) years of related pharmaceutical industry experience with five (5) years of secondary data experience in sales operations, sales/marketing analytics, market research, managed markets or business Analysis.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Demonstrated experience in leading cross functional project teams and influencing upward.
Ability to manage a large vendor and hold them accountable for data accuracy and meeting deliverable.
Prior budgeting experience helpful.
More than six (6) years project management experience
Identifies emerging pharmaceutical industry data sources, evaluates their effectiveness in business practices the recommends its use across Prescription Medicines.
Ensures best practices of third-party data usage.
Accountable for assisting in negotiating third party data vendor pricing in support of sales analytics, managed markets, market research and other various analytical departments.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of third party sub-national data sets used to support sales and marketing.
Previous work experience in targeting, call planning, sales and/or marketing analytics is preferred.
Working knowledge of third party de-identified patient datasets.
Working knowledge of database architecture, access & controls, and monitoring.
Experience with data tokenization processes.

Responsibilities

Lead governance and operational oversight of de‑identified patient data and platforms, ensuring all datasets meet privacy, compliance, quality, and analytic‑readiness standards.
Manage data ingestion, validation, and quality workflows, including schema governance, metadata standards, and controls for secure data access across internal and external stakeholders.
Coordinate and support RRD (Re‑Identification Risk Determination) assessments, ensuring required remediations are implemented and continuously monitored.
Serve as the central liaison between analytics, IT, privacy, compliance, and external data partners, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and trustworthiness of de‑identified patient data.
Guide and administer use‑case review and approval processes to ensure data access aligns with governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements while enabling timely analytics for business needs.
Mange linked data processes within our de-identified patient data warehouse.