VP, Data & Information Innovation

IQVIA•Wayne, PA

21h•$169,400 - $472,300

About The Position

The VP, Data & Information Innovation is a high-visibility senior leader in IQVIA’s Information Solutions & Supplier Services business. The role leads the development, delivery, execution, operation, maintenance, and support of the new US SCION Platform, which will serve as a foundation for current and next-generation offerings. The position reports to the Information Solutions lead and works across major US and global functions. As SCION shifts from development to delivery, day-to-day production operations, and large-scale customer transition, the role focuses on maintaining architectural integrity, enabling customer transitions, and scaling the platform to relaunch a new generation of offerings. The position provides senior technology and architecture leadership, connects architecture directly to development and customer-transition execution, and maintains accountability for quality, governance, operations, and business outcomes. The role is responsible for supporting SCION’s financial and operating objectives, sustaining its cross-functional operating model, and leading the transition of legacy and new customers to SCION-sourced information. It also preserves critical institutional knowledge and establishes architecture as an enduring organizational capability that connects current SCION execution with future Information Transformation priorities.

Requirements

Advanced degree in Business, Product, or Technical Management, or a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
At least 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry, with direct business, brand, analytics, and/or technical management experience.
Ability to work effectively both as a self-starter and as a team contributor on cross-functional projects or teams.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers, and clients.
Outstanding written, presentation-development and delivery, and verbal communication skills.
Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to deliver results to appropriate quality and timeline metrics.
Strong team leadership skills, including a passion for team culture and development.
Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
Sound judgment and decision-making skills.
Very strong software and computer skills, including MS Office applications.

Nice To Haves

At least 3 years in a consulting or advisory role, as a lead or team member, in US and/or global healthcare.
Direct experience with key stakeholders in the primary operating segments described in the posting.

Responsibilities

Deliver SCION to production in 2027 and enable an operational framework in 2028 to support US Data customers and next-generation offerings across the US RBU.
Support SCION’s financial objectives, including legacy and mainframe retirement, operating-cost savings, and reductions in data-quality event customer penalties.
Own and protect SCION’s original design, architecture, technology, and capabilities.
Identify, define, propose, and seek approval for future SCION technology and capability enhancements.
Lead technology and architecture decisions across US RBU and coordinate with global counterparts to support sustainable operating economics and protect the broader SCION investment.
Provide architectural leadership across SCION-related and derivative investments, current and future development priorities, and approved design decisions; mitigate duplicative US and global development and unnecessary application customization.
Maintain accountability for architecture, technical standards, and cross-platform dependencies.
Institutionalize SCION’s Quality Strategy and Quality Gates and maintain alignment across data, technical, operational/process, and application architecture.
Preserve consistent data quality, governance, privacy, and a harmonized information manufacturing process.
Manage architectural and development discipline across the planned US CapEx and OpEx portfolio, and deliver identified cost opportunities, which remain subject to validation.
As a business leadership team member, create sustainable operational execution speed and accountability and preserve the “one team, no excuses” operating philosophy.
Maintain a single architectural decision point, keeping architecture connected to development and customer-transition execution across Development, Data Management, CDH, Methodology, Quality, Governance, and the business.
Prevent architectural responsibilities from fragmenting across teams and maintain clear accountability.
Lead and support migration of legacy and new customers to SCION-sourced information by mid-2028, including formal transition activity beginning in January 2027.
Maintain the architecture that defines SCION’s systems, subsystems, interfaces, external systems, and data-source relationships.
Manage transfer of institutional knowledge into a permanent accountable function and establish architecture capability for the organization SCION is creating.
Preserve SCION’s dedicated cross-functional leadership structure and provide continuity as SCION moves from a transformation program to an ongoing information manufacturing and delivery capability.
Establish Architecture as an enduring capability connecting SCION execution with future Information Transformation priorities.