Associate Director, Data Strategy and Democratization

About AbbVie
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Associate Director, Data Strategy and Data Democratization

Purpose

US Commercial BTS Data Strategy is a broad strategic framework to manage and govern strategic data assets, establish appropriate organizational skills and tools to analyze data, and to define the key business initiatives over the Long range plan (LRP) that will benefit substantially from data driven decision making. 

The role of Associate Director, Data Strategy and Data democratization, will report in to US Commercial Business Technology Solutions (BTS) organization, formerly IT organization and will be responsible for aligning data & analytics strategy across US Commercial, Health Economic Outcomes Research (HEOR) and US Medical Affairs (USMA).

The role will provide Program Governance and Strategic Planning support across key business initiatives. The role will also act as BTS data custodian for various functional data 360 ecosystems. The role will manage a team that will provide IT support for analytics enablement, tools specific training, functional data specific training and clarifications, support access and onboarding on US Commercial Data Lake (CDL) environment. The role will establish a centralized organization to democratize data assets and provide data science support for big data use cases.

The role will regularly interface with the sr. management to translate the strategic business priorities into technology solutions. 

Responsibilities

The primary job responsibilities include:

• Build and maintain a strategic and operational roadmap for a portfolio of data ecosystems across Provider, Payor and Patient/consumer landscape, identifying key decision points across platforms, operating models, skill gaps, and capability gaps. Drive decisions in conjunction with relevant BTS and business data system owners. Coordinate Allergan integration decision points across ecosystem owners.
• Responsible for addressing data needs and data science support across HCP/Payor/Patient/Consumer data 360s. Repurpose and retrain data access team on 360s and establish a central organization to democratize data assets and data platforms.
• Champion utilization of business intelligence technology across IT organizations and business functions. In conjunction with Data Ops and Reporting Ops organization, lead and develop an enterprise-wide platform approach to operational analytics, data visualization, analysis and modelling
• Explore the evolving landscape of predictive modelling and exploratory analytics in Commercial initiatives across Payor, Provider, Consumer and Patient continuum.  
• In collaboration with other BTS and Commercial Ops teams, develop capabilities to support initiatives that optimize In Field Team (IFT) performance, maximize market growth opportunities, optimize resource allocation across marketing initiatives, create personalized experiences for patients, and develop exceptional value propositions
• Assure strategic alignment and synergy across USMA, HEOR, and Commercial organizations on US Commercial BTS data strategy and activities. Create ways to share and use data cross functionally on strategic business priorities
• Maintain platform specific execution plans for Commercial Data Lake and Commercial Data warehouse. Apply business strategy while driving technology strategy, balancing short term and long term needs to ensure that the architecture can scale and evolve accordingly
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture and Strategy group to establish operational planning and governance framework and operationalize an infrastructure support model for commercial data platforms.
• Establish a formal and structured process to conduct assessment and POCs before any major transformation initiatives are kicked in
• Leadership and People Responsibilities: Oversee the hiring and training of new and existing staff, conduct performance reviews and provide leadership, technical guidance and coaching to staff. Build organizational talent by creating a learning environment that ensures employees realize their highest potential

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• • • • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
      • 8-9 years of experience in data warehousing, big data, information management solutions and end-to-end development life-cycle support and SDLC processes. Atleast 2 years of Pharmaceutical Data management experience in Commercial data & analytics, or Real World Evidence data and analytics.
      • Proven delivery history in Data Management Programs. Broad knowledge of Data technologies and processes; Cloud, Unstructured, Big Data, MDM, Data Quality, Batch Cycles/ETL. Excellent understanding of Data warehousing architecture and technology, with delivery focus
      • The selected candidate must be a trusted partner within BTS organization and exhibit strong influencing skills across the organization. The selected candidate must also exhibit a passion for staying abreast of the latest trends and technologies in the data and analytics space.
      • Superb interpersonal and organizational skills. Strong analytical and problem resolution skills
      • Outstanding communication skills, both spoken and written
      • Solid relationship management skills;
      • Strong capacity to follow through, work independently and deliver a consistently high level of service
      • Ability to juggle projects and prioritize accordingly
      • Work collaboratively within a team environment
      • Lead technical teams in a matrix environment. Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional teams towards task completion
      • Passionate about identifying and solving problems for customers with the ability to uncover business needs through direct interaction as well as quantitative or qualitative research to define compelling solutions
      • Ability to communicate with architects regarding technical design trade-offs including platforms, frameworks, scalability and performance
      • Experience with Pharmaceutical and life sciences companies in similar roles managing data strategy for commercial, RWE and Payor Analytics IT systems and processes is an added advantage

 

Key Stakeholders

BTS Enterprise Strategy, BTS Info Research, USMA, HEOR, US Commercial Operations MABI and Payor Analytics, Functional BTS and Business owners

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
Yes, 15 % of the Time
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
M
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.