Global Data Acquisition Lead
About The Position
The Advanced Analytics for Business Insights (AABI) team, part of the Portfolio Strategy & Insights function, is dedicated to solving complex healthcare challenges and improving patient outcomes. AABI enables our business partners across Global Pharma Strategy (GPS), Medical Affairs (PDMA), Pharma International (PI) and other functions to make impactful decisions by leveraging data, analytics, and AI to enable fast, targeted actions in rapidly evolving business contexts. In AABI, you will work as a trusted advisor and expert, recommending critical decisions and actions to be taken with credibility and a focus on driving measurable impact. You will be part of a diverse, inclusive team that reflects the world we serve, thriving in a welcoming culture built on collaboration and innovation. This role will report to the Head of Data Asset Management. As the Global Data Acquisition Lead, you will be leading all data acquisitions across GTM, while also serving as the catalyst for innovation, with out-of-the-box thinking and external partnerships. This role will lead the global commercial data office (GCDO) responsible for driving the data strategy, assess market landscape, evaluate data vendors and source data assets that drive key business outcomes in support of One Pharma Strategy. You will act as a catalyst to enable the AI data ecosystem to drive key initiatives and global AI data products. The lead will operate with an enterprise mindset and work closely with Global Procurement (GP), Finance, Roche Digital Technology (RDT) to enable the platforms and solutions; Global Privacy Office (GPO) to drive compliance policies; key data vendors and partners across the globe to drive acquisition and operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 10+ years’ experience with extensive knowledge of pharma data and technology; or 6+ years with MBA/MS with extensive knowledge of pharma data and technology
- Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical data domain, both global and especially regional & country level ecosystem.
- Knowledge of commercial operations and analytics approaches in biopharma including descriptive and predictive analytics
- Understanding of emerging capabilities in natural language processing, unstructured data, etc. and potential application in pharma/health care
- Ability to help translate complex data insights into actionable business recommendations
- Excellent influencing and networking skills paired with stakeholder management experience in a multi-layered global environment
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated success in facilitating cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience with Cloud platforms (like AWS) preferred
- Experience in Agile methodology and execution and design thinking
- Availability to travel internationally as required
Responsibilities
- Run the Global Commercial Data Office to enable all commercial data acquisition across global and 80+ affiliates, governed through a centralized model, in partnership with the procurement and finance teams
- Partner with stakeholders across GPS, PI, PD, PDMA, affiliates and Roche other divisions, serving as their data stewards/experts to drive fit-for-purpose data acquisition, training, adoption, monitoring usage/value and decommissioning
- Establish data as an enterprise asset by x-functional partnering & serving as the data steward / expert across the enterprise
- Lead major data acquisition contracts in partnership with procurement
- Work in sync with data governance to enable seamless integration of data purchases in the data catalog.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to design, build and operate an enterprise data marketplace, for easy access to information about data assets
- Serve as the in-house expert of the existing and evolving data assets in the industry
- Work closely with peers and senior leaders in - ecosystem insights, CI, global access, therapeutic area teams; affiliate leadership/data & insights champions; Genentech data office team - to develop and implement a harmonized data acquisition process, data on-boarding, and utilization considerations
- Engage with data vendors to evaluate their products and offerings in alignment to our business, drive data contracts and enable cost effective enterprise/above-country data procurement strategy, where possible, to maximize the value of data
- Serve as the internal expert for consulting on the existing data sources, along with the pros and cons of the different assets
- Organize knowledge sharing sessions, bringing in industry experts and vendor partners with information on trends and best practices
- Collaborate with data consumers as the data expert to help deliver actionable insights to the business
- Accountable for resource allocation and investments both in the near-term and long-term; work with affiliate leads and finance teams to make resourcing tradeoff decisions
- Operate with enterprise mindset, with a strong focus on outcome
Benefits
- Relocation benefits are not available
- A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.
- This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
