Sr Manager, Data Governance & Enablement, Remote USA

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Job Description:

Sr Manager, Data Governance and Enablement - Remote USA

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Sr Manager, Data Governance and Enablement holds a prominent position within Solventum's MedSurg Commercial organization, serving as a highly visible executive leader and a critical strategic partner to the Commercial go-to-market organization. This role is pivotal in enabling effective data harnessing and advanced analytics capabilities to support development of market and business strategies, the securement of strategic and operational advantages, and the acceleration of short- and long-term results. In addition, this role will play a thought and program leadership role in the evolution of Solventum's AI and ML capabilities.

Reporting directly to the Director, Commercial Operations, this leader will have direct oversight over key areas, including data governance, implementing and maintaining a leading master data management capability, leading third-party data strategy, commercial tech stack ownership, technology-enabled continuous improvement, and being a thought leader and innovator in directing product ownership within the AGILE framework.  This is a newly established role, offering the ideal candidate the exceptional opportunity to infuse industry best practice and thought leadership into building this critical capability for Solventum. The organization eagerly anticipates the candidate who will shape the future of commercial endeavors.

Responsibilities: ​

• Driving the business end of Master Data Management through data selection and business rule development
• Driving data and metric governance across the business and IT teams
• Partnering with analytic and operational teams to understand data needs
• Leading agile product owners in translating data needs into IT actionable backlogs, and working with commercial leadership to create and enhance agile product ownership and overall management of business (data and IT) priorities
• Creating and managing a 3rd party data strategy - need identification through implementation
• Providing the business requirements and participating in RFPs for technology selection
• Driving data quality project to reduce production issues and increase the timeliness and reliability of data
• Participating in continuous improvement projects as the subject matter expert on available data assets, data governance, and data management processes 
• Collaborating with various departments to drive consistency in processes, data collection, and data use
• Managing a team of product owners and data analysts

Your Skills and Expertise 
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree AND 12 years in data management/governance, with 6+ years in leadership roles, preferably in healthcare.

OR

High School Diploma/GED AND 16 years in data management/governance, with 6+ years in leadership roles, preferably in healthcare.

· Strong knowledge of data management systems (e.g., Salesforce