About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Data Strategy based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead the functional data strategy for Customer Engagement and Integrated Marketing, defining strategic priorities, roadmaps, capability requirements, and success measures aligned with broader enterprise objectives.
- Develop data strategies that enable stronger customer engagement, omnichannel activation, field execution, marketing effectiveness, segmentation, and integrated customer experiences across brands and channels.
- Identify common horizontal data requirements while clearly distinguishing them from therapeutic area, brand, indication, launch, and lifecycle-specific needs.
- Ensure functional priorities are appropriately represented in enterprise and therapeutic-area roadmaps while avoiding duplication of responsibilities or capabilities.
- Translate business priorities into clear data requirements, capability priorities, investment recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with Insights & Analytics, Data Partnerships, Data Governance, Data Quality, technology, procurement, vendors, and business stakeholders to align on priorities and execution.
- Evaluate external data sources, partnerships, platforms, and vendors to identify opportunities to strengthen data capabilities and maximize the value of external data assets.
- Help manage data-related risks, including privacy, security, quality, compliance, and appropriate use of external data.
- Drive transparency across the functional data portfolio through roadmap views, KPI summaries, executive updates, investment recommendations, and trade-off assessments.
- Promote reuse, governance, adoption, and continuous improvement of priority data assets and capabilities.
- Establish adoption plans and value measures that demonstrate the business impact of strategic data investments.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and facilitate alignment across a complex, cross-functional and matrixed environment.
- Monitor industry trends, data partnership practices, and evolving capabilities to continuously strengthen the organization’s data strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; an advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
- 8+ years of relevant experience developing data, analytics, or data product strategies that connect business priorities with roadmaps, investment decisions, and measurable outcomes, preferably within life sciences.
- Strong understanding of life sciences data ecosystems and how data sources, governance requirements, business needs, and enterprise capabilities interact across functions.
- Demonstrated experience developing functional or domain-level data strategies, requirements, capability priorities, and success measures, particularly within customer engagement, marketing, analytics, or related areas.
- Experience establishing and managing data partnerships, including collaboration with external data providers, platforms, and vendors.
- Ability to distinguish horizontal functional data requirements from therapeutic-area, brand, indication, launch, and lifecycle-specific priorities.
- Experience aligning business, Insights & Analytics, Data Partnerships, Data Governance, Data Quality, technology, procurement, and vendor stakeholders around prioritized data capabilities.
- Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, privacy, security, compliance, and risk considerations when working with internal and external data assets.
- Strong strategic thinking and portfolio management skills, with the ability to translate complex data needs into practical priorities and investment recommendations.
- Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment without relying solely on formal authority.
- Ability to operate effectively in a complex, matrixed organization and manage competing priorities while maintaining focus on measurable outcomes.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to connect data capabilities to customer, marketing, and organizational objectives.
- A continuous-improvement mindset with the ability to leverage data insights, market trends, and industry best practices to strengthen data strategy and partnerships.
Conditions
- Salary range of $185,500–$344,500 per year, with final compensation determined based on relevant skills, experience, and other applicable factors.
- Performance-based cash incentive opportunity.
- Potential eligibility for annual equity awards, depending on role level.
- Remote work opportunity within the United States, subject to applicable location restrictions.
- Comprehensive health benefits, including