Data Operations and Governance Partner
About Astellas:
At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.
We pursue innovative science, focussing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under-served disease areas and in life-threatening or life-limiting diseases and conditions.
We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage.
Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.
We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real-world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their care-givers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes.
Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.
The Opportunity:
This is an exciting new opportunity for a seasoned Data Governance professional with strong pharma commercial acumen to become an integral part of the team. You will be working with a diverse range of business and technical stakeholders, you will focus on creating an end-to-end model and framework for data governance, implementing it and ensuring its smooth day-to-day operations once in place, with targeting that data at Astellas is easy-to-find, easy-to-understand, trusted and well-governed. Scope will not only be limited to owning centrally developed capabilities but will also include their business implementation and operations to deliver impactful value. You will be the “go-to” for data governance and its components such as data quality, data cataloging, data products, data marketplace. Whilst, you will be expected to be allrounded with necessary technical knowledge and background, it is absolutely paramount to have excellent influential stakeholder management skills.
Hybrid Working:
At Astellas we recognise the importance of balancing your work and home life, so we offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues in person at the office alongside the flexibility to work from home; optimising the most productive work environment for you to succeed and deliver.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partnering with local affiliates, various regional and global teams, achieve a first-class customer-enabling data governance: from strategy and framework to execution and operations.
- Own execution of the vision of data governance, define/revise roadmap to execute and achieve that vision, in commercial and medical affairs data and analytics with aspiration of connected landscapes across all Value Delivery Organisation (formerly known as Commercial and Medical Affairs).
- Develop and maintain a well-governed data life cycle management for master, transactional, and reference data considering all phases of lifecycle such as data collection, data retention.
- Business ownership of development and continuous improvement of data governance capabilities, standards and processes whilst operating them once in place. Ensure that these key processes and the stakeholders using them (such as business operations, stewardship processes, data sourcing practices and platforms practices, MDM, Reporting & Analytics and other teams) and their practices are well aligned and adopting the newly developed data governance practices.
- Develop and maintain easy-to-understand and easy-to-maintain, smart models and their documentation such as guidelines, standards, SOPs, business glossaries, data ownership models, process maps, RACI on data governance processes and practices by aligning with all stakeholders involved including developing smart and executable Role and Responsibility models within data governance processes for various teams including but not limited to: Data Owners, Data Product Owners, Data Stewards, Data Sourcing, Data Platforms, Reporting and Analytics, Enterprise Data Governance team, affiliates, regions, brand teams, Digital and various others.
- Own and execute data quality framework including profiling, monitoring, observability in alignment with key stakeholders.
Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- Solid experience across all of: data governance, data quality, data management, data products, data catalogue, data marketplace and governance processes around them, data enablement, data democratization in a global pharma in commercial or medical affairs domain.
- Proficiency with Databricks and its components / capabilities as well as Data Quality tools and components (Profiling, Monitoring, Observability) , Data Cataloging tools as well as Data Marketplace tools, Data Governance tools like MS Purview or Collibra.
- Solid experience of Agile methodology and design thinking.
- Excellent Business Analysis skills with critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to ask the right questions with attention to detail and an ability to understand the 'big picture'; coupled with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interact with all levels of employees, hence able to effectively influence and deliver impactful value
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic fast-paced environment on multi-tasks, with minimal supervision whilst acting with a sense of urgency while being responsive to changing business priorities.
- Excellent organizational, planning and project management skills and ability to effectively manage cross-functional projects of moderate complexity in a multicultural context, including vendor management, regulatory & legal compliance, etc.
Preferred Knowledge & Experience:
- Familiarity with next generation technologies and methods in pharma commercial such as data mesh and its data governance, AI applications.
- Good knowledge of Data Privacy and Data Compliance policies and procedures.
- Experience with Data Warehousing designs and concepts.
- Experience in Business Intelligence tools at an architectural and strategy level with good appreciation of lineage, data modelling, ETL and API integration capabilities.
- Experience with Business Rule Engine tools, CRM, MDM.
- Experience of working with Big Data/Analytics.
Education:
- Undergraduate or equivalent degree in Computer Science or IT or equivalent.
Additional Information:
- This is a permanent, full-time position.
- This position is based in Warsaw, Poland.
- This position follows our hybrid working model. Role requires a blend of home and a minimum of 1-2 days per week in our Warsaw office. Flexibility may be required in line with business needs.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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