Head of Product Data Domains

UCB•Boston, MA

9d•$184,000 - $265,700•Hybrid

About The Position

UCB is building a permanent enterprise data capability to improve how data is understood, connected and applied to critical business decisions. The capability is intended to accelerate medicine development through trusted, reusable and interoperable data products that support AI. The Head of Data Domain Products will build and lead the enterprise portfolio of strategic data domains and manage a team of seven Data Domain Product Leads, whose expertise spans data and the business questions involved in the clinical pathway. The role sets strategic direction, establishes consistent ways of working, and guides priorities, investments, dependencies and trade-offs across the portfolio. In partnership with business, data and technology teams, the position ensures domain data products connect business meaning with trusted data and are governed, reusable and able to support business processes, analytics and AI-enabled use cases. The goal is aligned domain leadership, reusable enterprise data products and measurable value at scale. The position is based in UCB’s Atlanta, Georgia; Raleigh, North Carolina; or Boston, Massachusetts offices. It follows a hybrid approach and is limited to 10% domestic and international travel. UCB describes its general hybrid-first approach as spending 40% of time in the office, unless the role description states otherwise or the nature of the role precludes it.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Data, Analytics, Life Sciences, Information Management, Technology or a related field.
10+ years of relevant experience in data expertise and applying data to business questions, data strategy, product management, business data management or enterprise transformation.
Pharmaceutical industry experience and strong knowledge of data supporting the development and lifecycle of pharmaceutical assets.
Experience leading enterprise data from a business perspective (not IT or the Data Office), strategic data domains or comparable capabilities.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing senior product, data or business professionals.
Accountability for a portfolio of products, capabilities or strategic domains.
Experience translating enterprise strategy into coordinated roadmaps, investments and measurable outcomes.
Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata, semantic models and interoperability.
Experience enabling analytics, automation or AI through trusted enterprise data.
Experience navigating complex cross-functional priorities and trade-offs.
Strong leadership, coaching, stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Business, Data, Analytics, Life Sciences, Information Management, Technology or a related field.
Experience working with data to answer business questions across multiple stages of the pharmaceutical asset-development lifecycle.
Experience establishing or scaling enterprise data operating models.
Experience connecting business context, data relationships and semantic standards.
Experience supporting advanced analytics, automation or AI-enabled transformation.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach and develop seven Data Domain Product Leads.
Set strategic direction for the enterprise data domain portfolio.
Align domain strategies, roadmaps and investments with business priorities.
Establish consistent product management and ways of working across domains.
Lead prioritization of dependencies, investments, risks and trade-offs.
Drive adoption, reuse and measurable value from domain data products.
Resolve cross-domain ownership gaps, duplication and strategic issues.
Ensure alignment with data governance, privacy and compliance requirements.
Drive consistency with enterprise semantic and architecture standards.
Enable interoperability across domains, processes and business use cases.
Strengthen collaboration between Domain Product Leads and Portfolio Leads.
Ensure data products support priority analytics, automation and AI use cases.
Communicate portfolio progress, risks, investment needs and outcomes to leadership.