Recruitment Data Policies Head of Product Data Domains

UCB•Boston, MA

8d•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. Trusted, reusable, and interoperable data products will support medicine development and AI-enabled use cases. 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. The role sets strategic direction, establishes consistent ways of working, and guides priorities, investments, dependencies, and trade-offs across the portfolio. Working across business, data, and technology, the position ensures domain data products connect business meaning with trusted data and are governed, reusable, and capable of supporting business processes, analytics, and AI-enabled use cases. The role partners closely with Patient Evidence leadership, Data Strategy & Architecture, the Data Office, business process owners, domain subject matter experts, Digital Technology, Enterprise Architecture, business and functional leaders, and Data Portfolio Leads. The role can be based in UCB’s Atlanta, Raleigh, or Boston offices and is hybrid, with limited domestic and international travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Data, Analytics, Life Sciences, Information Management, Technology, or a related field.
At least 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, strategic data domains, or comparable capabilities.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing senior product, data, or business professionals.
Proven 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 practices 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.