Senior Director, Data Strategy, Science, & Services

About Otsuka Precision Health

Otsuka Precision Health is a health experience company that brings personalized care within reach through products and services for mental and physical well-being. Combining the power of human interaction with technology, we tailor solutions to support individual health needs and improve how people engage. Data is the cornerstone of our platform, connecting people and partners and strengthening our collective impact on total healthcare.

About This Team

The Data Strategy & Insights team serves as a key partner between the business and technical teams to ensure the solutions we deliver – today and in the future – enhance patient experiences and drive efficiencies.

About This Role

This role oversees data scientists, decision scientists, and data analysts who deliver technical capabilities in an integrated manner to support OPH.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Data Technologies & Analytics Solutions, this leader will become a driving force of change, cross-functional collaboration, impactful innovation, quality, and delivery across OPH.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, oversight and scientific/operational/strategic/technical direction to the Data Science Solutions team that is aligned to the broader OPH strategic plan and achievement of Corporate Goals.
  • Leading edge data science approaches, enterprise analytics, advanced analytics, AI/ML, business intelligence, data visualization and storytelling strategies to enable key data insights to inform decision making and assist in business transformation initiatives.
  • Modernized reporting, visualization, and modeling of data/information to enable business partners to assess and monitor indicators of performance, quality, and risks, as well as provide predictive and prescriptive insights.
• Operational excellence would be demonstrated through effective and efficient delivery across the multiple initiatives within OPH and across other Otsuka companies. This includes but is not limited to resourcing, prioritization, timeline management, functional outsourcing, etc. A key success factor will be striking the optimal balance of internal core competencies and the strategic leveraging of external support.
• Conduct ongoing assessment of evolving policy and work practice needs, as well as their respective training compliance. In partnership with Security and Privacy, initiates the development of new or enhancement of existing policies and work practices along with their respective training.
• Function as a knowledge base and resource to project teams. Serves as a point of escalation and resolution for the Data Science Solutions team.
• Model and coach engagement best practices that enable thought partnership and engender a collaborative environment with healthy debate.
• Contribute to enhancing the AI readiness and Data literacy of the Otsuka organization.
• Foster a culture that focuses on the achievement of goals and personal accountability, through the setting of objectives and expectations, monitoring to plan, redirection as needed, and celebration of achievements.
• Foster a culture that embraces the strategic use of data into decision making enabling greater business outcomes.
• Accountable for ensuring collaborations and communications with key stakeholders of Data Science Solutions.
• Attract, retain, engage, develop, and promote talent to build a team with an optimal balance of experience and diverse perspectives.
• Travel up to 15%.

Knowledge/ Experience and Skills: 

• Experience working within the healthcare industry with analytics, data operations or data technology organizations.
• Experience working with commercial data.
• Formal education/training and extensive experience with data science, statistics, and AI methods. Specifically having expertise in data preprocessing, structured and unstructured data, feature engineering, model development, evaluation, maintenance, and interpretability.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, R, SQL, or similar.
• Experience driving responsible AI adoption and deep knowledge of LLM.
• Experience supporting development, corporate functions, and/or commercial portfolios spanning multiple products or therapeutic areas.
• Experience developing comprehensive business cases and executing against large, multi-function strategic initiatives.
• Line and performance management experience with complex and analytical teams.
• Vendor selection and management experience.
• Management of a budget, inclusive of resourcing and outsourcing and discretionary spend.
• Experience driving large, complex change efforts and to drive results through influence and c