Director, Data Governance

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Level 6

 

Job Description Summary

This position will be located at the East Hanover, NJ location and will not have the ability to be located remotely.

This is a one of three roles.

 

Job Description

The Insights and Decision Science (IDS) team is dedicated to enabling improved decision-making at Novartis by leveraging data and advanced analytics capabilities to generate actionable insights that drive business growth. We collaborate closely with the US business, bringing insights and challenging ideas to empower smarter, data-driven decision-making. Reporting into Executive Director, Data Governance, the Director, Data Governance will play a critical role in establishing a comprehensive data governance strategy to support the US Commercial organization. 

 

This position will be responsible for driving data governance strategies and initiatives to ensure data accessibility, quality, compliance, and consistency across the business. This leadership role will oversee the development and implementation of data governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and regulatory requirements. The role will involve collaboration with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain the roadmap of key data governance initiatives required to promote effective management and oversight of the organization’s data assets.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop data governance framework, outlining key objectives, milestones, and roles and responsibilities to support effective domain ownership and stewardship, metadata management, data classification and standards, documentation of requirements, and change control procedures  

• Serve as a chair in data governance council, bringing together stakeholders from cross-functional teams to manage and collaborate on key data initiatives 

• Implement data governance policies and standards to support data security, privacy, and compliant usage of data  

• Partner with IDS teams to determine where data quality management processes are required, ensuring appropriate oversight and mechanisms are in place to support ongoing monitoring  

• Oversee the use of technology solutions to advance governance initiatives related to metadata management, data lineage, business rules management, in order to enhance data awareness and accessibility 

• Promote trainings and raise awareness on data governance initiatives, processes, and technology / solutions to improve organizational data literacy and drive adoption and adherence to data governance policies 

• Establish oversight mechanisms to monitor compliance and present data governance reports, dashboards, and metrics to senior leadership 

• Develop and manage data governance metrics and associated KPIs 

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