VP, Medical Data Office Head

Working Location: MASSACHUSETTS, WESTBOROUGH; MASSACHUSETTS, SOUTHBOROUGH; MASSACHUSETTS, WALTHAM; PENNSYLVANIA, CENTER VALLEY 

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid

 

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Job Description

As a cornerstone of our global Olympus Strategy, we will provide a connected and integrated Intelligent Endoscopy Ecosystem, leveraging the power of data and AI to improve clinical outcomes and efficiency. Transitioning from providing individual products and services to comprehensive clinical and non-clinical solutions requires a solid data strategy and a strong data governance framework across internal and external data. Data plays a crucial role in integrating and improving (digital and physical) products and capitalizing / commercializing the value of data is a key lever for the success of our future business model while adhering to regulatory and legal requirements needs to be ensured.

The Global Head of Medical Data Office drives the development and continuous adoption of the end-to-end data strategy and capitalization and establishes and drives a data governance structure incorporating all relevant internal (e.g. Business Units, R&D, IT, data privacy, data security, legal, MSA. finance) as well as external stakeholders (e.g. customers, external partners, authorities) in line with the overall ESE developments and roadmap.

The initial setup of the new standing organization includes 3-5 global, directly allocated FTE, however, will require leading and managing large scale virtual, non-permanent teams across businesses and functions on global, regional and local level. Permanent structures are being established successively across the globe.

Job Duties

• Develop and regularly review end-to-end data strategy, enabling short-term solution delivery, go-to-market and support as well as providing long-term vision in line with the overall ESE solution roadmap.
• Optimize data capabilities and resources by managing budgeting and financials, forecasting investment needs, establishing performance metrics, and chairing decision-making bodies.
• Develop / maintain comprehensive data architecture for collecting, processing, analyzing and applying medical, technical, processual and commercial data from all connected applications and internal (e.g. devices) and external (e.g. hospital information systems) data sources, derive tech. platform requirements.
• Identify strategic commercialization / capitalization opportunities related to data & data analytics that can be leveraged to develop the solution-based business model further, evaluate implementation feasibility.
• Accountability for budgets and costs across all MDO related activities and spending and estimate future investment needs and own business cases.
• Build up and lead a globally scalable organization (skills, resources, structures) to implement the short / mid / long term data strategy incl. its operational, technical, cultural and control capabilities.
• Establish and drive global data ownership, data governance and data quality policies and framework incorporating all relevant internal (e.g. BUs, R&D, IT, data privacy, data security, legal, compliance, MSA, finance, sales regions) as well as external (e.g. customers, external partners, authorities