About the Department
The Finance and Operations dept. brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance and Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?
The Position
The Senior Manager - Cardiometabolic Data Partner is responsible for partnering with the Cardiometabolic business unit to drive the effective use of data to address key business problems and opportunities. They will act as a trusted advisor to the Cardiometabolic team, supported by broader Data Strategy department. The senior manager is responsible for partnering with strategic stakeholders to define data strategy, support key analytics & reporting initiatives, defining solutions to meet business needs, defining data management resource needs, managing work efforts between IT and business areas and managing project delivery efforts, where applicable.
The senior manager will be responsible for developing and prioritizing the roadmap of key data initiatives across the Cardiometabolic business unit. They will also be responsible for advancing data governance standards and best practices within NNI to support our Cardiometabolic ambitions.
Relationships
This role reports to the Senior Director - Data Strategy and is accountable for actively participating in multiple internal cross-functional teams locally and globally. The senior manager will need to effectively manage multiple stakeholders and the associated activities related to prioritized initiatives. External relationships are with multiple data vendors in support of business objectives for cross-functional stakeholders.
Essential Functions
Partners with Cardiometabolic areas and supporting departments to develop understanding of core business / analytical problems and identified data driven solutions to prioritized itemsSupports commercialization efforts within the Cardiometabolic space, defining the data strategy to support data driven decision making from opportunity identification to product launch and executionDefines key projects, drives prioritization and manages roadmap of Cardiometabolic Data Partnership collaborative projectsProvides data governance, data management and consultancy support for long term NNI strategic initiatives including priorities outlined by NNI enterprise strategy, NNI digitalization strategy, new product areas and new market areasProvides support to Cardiometabolic business unit exploring new therapeutic areas, services or external partnerships ensuring appropriate data information and pricing are available for decision makingFunctions as business project management lead on prioritized data driven / analytics focused initiatives; serves as strategic data and analytics consultant on prioritized projects, guiding various aspects of the project from data acquisition to outcome sharing / democratizationLeads acquisition and integration of identified data assets into NNI to support prioritized projects and answer business questionsEnsures organizational best practices, standard toolsets and training are embedded in Cardiometabolic business unitImplements data strategy solutions and instills data governance best practices within Cardiometabolic business unitProvides data management support to broader department and on specific prioritized projectsDefines near and long-term data and analytics needs for supported departments; partners to enable data and capabilitiesEnsures cross org utilization of data & analytic best practices and alignment to defined policies within NNIDrives alignment of customer data across departments, supporting 360-degree view of customersDrives integration of data assets with master data systems to ensure data could be utilized to derive 360-degree views of customers, improving our ability to address key business questionsLeads steering committees around prioritized projectsCoordinates activities between business and technology stakeholdersAdvises stakeholders on data policies, processes and standards ensuring any data breech is appropriately addressedDrives and manages the data definitions and business rule processesEstablishes patient data policies and guidelines through data governance best practicesResolves data conflicts across business and technical areasManages communication on data change management and activitiesProvides direction on creation of IT interface agreements ensuring all required data attributes are accounted for in file transfers from internal to external sources to support downstream patient data reportingEngages with global counterparts in procurement and analytics to support and structure purchases of US data assetsPartners with IT to drive enhancements and improvements to backend processes related to aligned data, ensuring that they are functioning properlyPartners with procurement team in development of data RFP engagements through participation in contract negotiations supporting renewal of existing or new data purchasesProvides strategic and tactical direction to stakeholders in supported departmentsUpholds data quality standards for all incoming/outgoing data deliverables via monitoring and troubleshooting data issuesIdentifies, evaluates and recommends new data sources to drive outcomesPhysical Requirements
0-10% overnight travel required.
Qualifications
A Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Business Administration, or related field required. Master's degree preferredMinimum 5+ years related experience in related data or analytics functions in the pharmaceutical industry requiredMinimum 5+ years related project management experience in the pharmaceutical or similar field requiredExperience in the cardio metabolic field preferred, but not requiredAbility to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneouslyKnowledge of major pharmaceutical patient data sources requiredProficiency in analytics tools/systems, such as Tableau and Qlik preferredAbility to work with all levels within the organizationStrong analytic skills requiredRequires an expanded understanding of the core issues surrounding data, including the patient data privacy landscapeExcellent communication skillsWe commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
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