Director, Enterprise Data Governance

The Director, Enterprise Data Governance is a new role responsible for continuing to establish and operationalize data governance capabilities that ensure trusted, high-quality, compliant, and accessible data across all functions. This role will lead a cross-functional Data Governance Committee and a network of Data Champions, partnering with a broad set of stakeholders, including R&D, Commercial, Operations, Legal, HR, IT, Information Security, Enterprise AI, and Program Management.  This role will work a weekly hybrid schedule in our Waltham office.

This role will report to the Executive Director, Enterprise Data Management.

• Partner with the Data Governance Committee to understand key business needs and gain alignment on priorities. 

• Partner with Committee members and Data Champions to implement data governance solutions that address priorities and enhance existing data governance capabilities.

• Lead continued development of enterprise data governance principles and frameworks, including policies, standards, stewardship models, and decision rights.

• Assess the actionability of existing data governance principles; enhance value obtained from application of principles across functions.

• Ensure data governance principles are in alignment with industry standards like FAIR and ALCOA+.

• Define and maintain metadata standards, data inventories / catalogs, classification models, and data lineage.

• Assess the utility of existing data inventories; increase ease of inventory maintenance; continue enhancing the value obtained from inventories.

• Partner with Legal, IT, and Information Security to ensure compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards; support audits and regulatory reviews.
• Partner with Legal, Quality and IT to ensure record retention policies are clear and actionable.
• Partner with IT and Enterprise AI to embed data governance into data platforms, secure AI data pipelines, and AI/analytics workflows.
• Drive alignment on master data domains, definitions, and standards across functions.
• Promote a culture of data accountability, transparency, and quality across functions.
• Support data‑related incident response activities (e.g., classification validation, lineage tracing, access review).
• Define and track data‑quality, data‑risk, and governance adoption metrics.

Basic Qualifications, Education and Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive experience in data governance, metadata management, or enterprise data management within pharma/biotech.  7+ years of data governance related experience and 7+ years of pharma/biotech experience.
• Experience supporting R&D and/or Commercial data domains.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional governance forums or stewardship programs.

Preferred Qualifications and Abilities

• Strong partnership and communication skills to engage stakeholders at different levels.
• Ability to explain data governance concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong influencing, alignment-building, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead organizational change and drive adoption of data governance standards.
• Excellent planning, facilitation, and documentation skills.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $195,000 to $210,000.  In addition, this position is eligible for an annual performance pay bonus.  Exact compensation may vary based on skills, training, knowledge, and experience. Alkermes offers a competitive benefits package.  Additional details can be found on our careers website: www.alkermes.com/careers#working-here

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