Duration: 12+ Months

Job Description:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The responsibilities of this position include:

•        Own Enterprise Data office projects (Including Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Governance and Analytics) delivery by leading project teams through the full project lifecycle (ie:  Idea through Closure)

•        Partner with the Enterprise & Regional Data Governance team to translate MDM, Data Quality, Data Governance and Analytics requirements into an attainable roadmap

•        Facilitating meetings including preparing agendas, coordinating schedules & materials, documenting meeting minutes, following up on action items

•        Proactive risk and issue management to ensure the expected project outcomes are achieved on time and within budget & scope

•        Financial management including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances

•        Communicate project statuses and updates to project team and business owners throughout the duration of the project; making certain all impacted stakeholders have an understanding of risks, issues, and activities related to the project

•        Support key company programs for MDM, data alignment, data migration, and data quality

•        Manage the vendor and lead the proof of concept offering evaluation to support the enterprise MDM platform

•        Support the data governance leader in managing stakeholder expectations for project deliverables and communications and help to implement an effective system for project governance

•        Work closely with senior IT and business leaders to ensure confidence in planning, financial management and that delivery expectations are developed, managed and met

•        Act as point of contact for vendor contacts, which includes integration of project tasks and reviewing deliverables

•        Ability to tailor information to the audience – from detail to broad summaries and technical to business focused

•        Accountable for delivering projects on time, within budget and scope with expected business outcome

•        Ensure project goals are in line with IT strategy and business objectives

•        Build a cohesive, high-performing project team to achieve results

•        Oversee the sharing and prioritization of resources among projects

•        Provide input and improvements to the IT PMO process

•        Coach and mentor junior staff

SKILLS:

•        Excellent leadership, problem-solving, organizational, presentation skills, analytical & critical thinking skills with an ability to manage competing demands

•        Proven track record of delivery medium and high complexity projects and programs identifying, and leading continuous improvement as required

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels including the executive level

•        Ability to proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

•        Ability to lead others during ambiguity

•        Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

•        Ability to influence others without having direct authority over them 

REQUIREMENTS:

• 10+ years of experience within enterprise MDM, data quality, data governance and/or analytics functions with a track record of managing large, complex projects in a medical device and life sciences vertical.
• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree a plus
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
• Direct experience implementing and managing MDM, data quality, stewardship and analytics programs
• Strong knowledge of Data and Analytics capabilities
• Practical experience with Dun and Bradstreet and other data enrichment vendors (e.g, Medpro, Veeva Open data, IQVIA) data
• Practical experience with enterprise MDM tools. (Informatica Multi-Domain MDM is preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to manage data governance council expectations, lead discussions, and get business stakeholders buy-in to solution proposals
• Proven experience translating business problems into actionable Data and Analytics initiatives
• Prior experience with scrum or agile methodologies used in enterprise-level application development projects to focus on delivering value incrementally
• Sufficient level of technical background to provide highly credible leadership to development teams and to be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
• Knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to establish and maintain stakeholder trust and confidence

• Experience within a regulated environment (medical device or life sciences) preferred
• High level understanding of data management tools (eg., Informatica Master data management, Informatica Data Quality, Collibra, AWS data lake, snowflake, ) preferred

•        Understanding or certification on Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA) preferred

Sanjay Singh | Trinus Corporation

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