Director Lead Data Specialist Commercial Data Solutions

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Director Lead Data Specialist Commercial Data Solutions 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Director, Lead Data Specialist – Commercial Data Solutions are to: 

The Director, Lead Data Specialist is a member of Bayer’s growing Commercial Data Solutions team supporting US Product & Pipeline and Customer Engagement team within commercial organization. Through rigorous analysis of rich commercial data, he/she will enable leaders within Oncology, CVR, WHC Franchises, Business Insights, marketing and advanced analytics to make informed business decisions and help quantify value through data. The Data Partner collaborates with the cross functional teams to uncover data opportunities and to facilitate strategic decision-making.

The position has the primary ownership of data and has the responsibility of end-to-end data management for all the business-critical data assets of the US Pharma Commercial organization. The Data Specialist is responsible for working closely with mission teams in developing a data strategy and build data management capabilities, which includes identifying the emerging data sources, manage data quality, and governance to enable data to driven business insights.  Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Understanding stakeholders’ key objectives, needs, and challenges
• Extracting valuable and actionable insights from datasets; identifying emerging trends
• Designing compelling stories within data that facilitate stakeholder decision-making
• Proactively anticipating stakeholders’ needs
• Continuously looking for ways to measure and demonstrate the business value.
• Ensuring the data integrity is intact and trusted

The position serves as a data leader coordinating across team of data specialists and works closely in collaboration with Customer Business Insights team as the central point of contact for key data questions. 

• Assess the current landscape of data practices and build a robust and comprehensive strategy for our data that defines analytics requirements and end-user reporting;
• Support customer insight leads in developing overarching data strategy to address key business questions, direct associated analytics, and reporting;
• Enable data driven culture with ease of access and usage; establish governance and implement best practices in data management to uphold data integrity;
• Facilitate data-driven decision making by ensuring data sources are aligned to business needs, key questions, and are readily available for analysis and reporting;
• Perform, with authority as Data Management Lead, by managing individuals and matrixed teams focused on operations, including, data ingestion, data quality, data transformation, standardization, data models, analytical layer(s) and visualizations;
• Create, standardize, and maintain thorough business rule documentation from both a technical and business lens;
• Collaborate with senior business/IT leadership to understand future requirements and direction of the business to chart out data strategy in support of customer centricity, digital transformation and business growth across various commercial functions;
• Synthesize data and conduct analyses from multiple sources across key commercial functions (sales, syndicated claims, marketing, patient services, market access) to identify patterns, segmentation, trends, root causes & opportunities;
• Identify data gaps and changes needed to meet business objectives;
• Accountable to drive quality and stability of data for key business KPIs;
• Continuously assess the data needs and applicability for US Business to identify new data sources and/or retire data that is no longer needed;
• Create an actionable data quality framework and develop KDEs measures consistent across Franchises, working closely with Business Insights, Advance Analytics and Franchise teams;
• Develop processes and SLAs with third party data vendors for timely and accurate delivery of data;
• Hold vendors/partners accountable to deliver the business-critical systems on time and within budget;
• Champion and educate on the appropriate sources and use of data to meet both business objectives and compliance requirements; 
• Execution of routine analytics, Ad-hoc reporting, and visualization;
• Support budget development regarding data sources and ensure alignment with stakeholders on data project management, prioritization, and scope.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree;

• Proven leadership in the pharmaceutical and or/health tech industry; Knowledge of analytics approaches in pharma including descriptive and predictive analytics;
• Understanding of logistics & distribution processes and Specialty Pharmacy data;
• Commercial pharma data experience working with marketing, sales, SP/SD data, syndicated claims data;
• Experience in MDM, including customer, product master, affiliations, and hierarchy;
• Ability to find the story within the data and translate technical concepts into simple yet impactful insights & understandable recommendations;
• Expertise in design, build and manage Data quality framework for commercial data assets;
• Understanding of commercial data landscape and experience working with data suppliers;
• Excellent influencing and networking skills paired with stakeholder management experience in a multi-layered matrix organization and global environment;
• Knowledge of cloud based, big data technologies;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to influence others to take action and drive; collaborative projects to a successful outcome;
• Strong project management skills and ability to multitask.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years’ experience with extensive knowledge of technology led business strategy transformation;
• MBA or MS preferred.

This posting will be available for application until at least 5/4/2024.