Summary
- TechOps - Global Operations Center (GOC) Data Governance team is setup to develop and maintain the right metadata, master data, data quality parameters, data lineage, KPI reports and workflows to ensure that data is governed, consistent, reliable and easily accessible for decision-making while ensuring data is maintained across as per Pharmaceutical regulatory and compliance requirement.
- Team Lead - Data Governance has accountability for day-to-day data governance for primary functional area (Supply Chain). Is the SME who understands and communicates the meaning and use of information. Responsible to work along with Data Owners, Data Stewards and Data Quality Experts for data issue resolutions to maintain data with optimal quality and related decision making. They are also responsible for implementing data governance guidelines, procedures and processes, ensuring data quality improvement through active data stewardship, remediating data issues that impact business processes.
About The Role
Major accountabilities:
- Lead efforts to define data standards, policies, benchmarks and processes for the daily execution of activities to ensure effective data governance and data quality management
- Stakeholder engagement with Data Owners, Global Business Process Owners, Data Management team and Data Solution designers to ensure timely alignment
- Liaise with the Functional Data Owners, MDM Spocs, Data Stewards & DDIT organization to calibrate, discuss and resolve Data Governance and Data Quality issues
- Lead team as a functional data expert (SME) for Pharma data that require specific insights of pharmaceutical domain knowledge
- Provide people leadership and create unbossed culture within team for highly productive and motivated team
- Continuously monitor progress (with particular focus on DQ critical metrics) and track benefit realization of use cases and delivery of intended results
- Ensure continuous and effective communication with relevant team members, stakeholders and colleagues in relation to data stewardship activities
- Identify and implement innovative new ways of data governance and management with data quality and process simplification in mind
Minimum Requirements
Work Experience:
- Overall 12+ years of experience, with 5+ years working in Data Governance and Stewardship roles for key business functions such as Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, HR etc.
- Overall 3+ years of People Management and leadership experience
- Good understanding of Supply Chain domain preferably in Pharma
- Hands-on experience in working in multiple Data Governance, Master data and data management domain
- Good knowledge of GxP environment
- Demonstrated experience in Master Data and creating meaningful insights, which include data quality KPI's, policies and standards
- Advanced level of expertise in process set-up, Data quality KPIs and operational issues / management
- Strong in reporting & operations management
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