Senior Advisor, Data Management & Governance

Cardinal Health•OH-Ohio-Work from Home, OH

2d•$106,700 - $152,400

About The Position

Cardinal Health’s Data Office empowers the enterprise with trusted, high-quality data for informed decision-making and strategic goals. Its Data Management & Governance function acquires, standardizes, and protects enterprise and third-party data to support clinical, commercial, and financial decisions while meeting regulatory and legal standards. The team uses guidelines, quality metrics, and policy enforcement to keep enterprise data trusted, secure, and audit ready. The Senior Advisor, Data Management & Governance applies advanced clinical pharmacotherapy knowledge, regulatory expertise, and data stewardship principles to oversee enterprise pharmaceutical master data assets. The role is accountable for clinical and regulatory classifications, alternative logic, formulary alignment, and procurement and integration of third-party data. It drives cross-functional data governance and quality frameworks to ensure data used in procurement, billing, inventory, and dispensing is clinically validated, compliant, and operationalized for decision-making. The position also serves as a subject matter expert for clinical and product datasets.

Requirements

Active, unrestricted Registered Pharmacist (RPh) license in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
Experience in clinical pharmacy practice, pharmacy informatics, healthcare data stewardship, or pharmaceutical supply chain master data.
Prior experience with pharmaceutical compendia.
Direct experience with enterprise master data management systems or ERP solutions.
Strong understanding of healthcare and pharmaceutical coding systems.
Proficiency using analytical tools to develop creative and innovative insights with high business value.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Proven ability to translate complex clinical nuances into precise technical and operational data requirements.

Nice To Haves

State of Ohio RPh license preferred.
Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (B.S. Pharm) from an accredited college of pharmacy preferred.
8+ years of experience in a related field preferred.
Experience in both hospital and retail pharmacy preferred.

Responsibilities

Establish, standardize, and govern critical clinical and product attributes throughout the master data lifecycle.
Author and maintain data dictionaries, business rules, policies, standards, and validation logic to ensure data integrity during item setup, maintenance, and system conversions.
Lead strategic alignment of product attributes with industry-standard clinical vocabularies.
Manage clinical, regulatory, commercial, and reimbursement inquiries and execute resolution activities.
Resolve complex data exceptions, discrepancies, and cross-reference mapping errors.
Evaluate regulatory changes and manufacturer notices for their operational, clinical, and data impact.
Oversee procurement, ingestion, transformation, linkage, and maintenance of third-party data and associated reference data.
Partner with business leaders to translate strategic objectives, business processes, and regulatory requirements into scalable solutions across multiple domains, including CSMP, QRA, Finance, Sourcing, Revenue Management, IT, Commercial Technologies, Customer Success, and Account Management.
Validate external data for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness, and convert unstructured data into structured data.
Create data views and reports that promote data quality and business insights and enable accuracy and efficiency for downstream users.
Lead and support data modernization initiatives.
Serve as a subject matter expert for clinical and product datasets.