Director, Data Product Management

**Team Overview**

At AstraZeneca, we're not afraid to do things differently. We're resetting expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, ground-breaking and cutting-edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

Global Insights & Business Excellence is a strategic function, critical for enabling success in the growth of the BBU business. Our ambition is to build an industry-leading organization, empowering our Commercial teams through the generation of compelling evidence and insights, while ensuring they have the tools and skills to deliver impactful launches that change the practice of medicine for the benefit of patients. Within GIBEX, the Global Commercial Reporting and Data Management team is responsible for the management and governance of key commercial data and the creation of platforms that enable successful brand performance management by senior commercial leaders.

**About the role**:
AstraZeneca has a need to maximize the utilization of high quality, trusted data in order to accelerate achievement of our Bold Ambition of getting 20 new medicines to patients by 2030. The Director, Data Product Management drives value realization for data by setting a strategic vision for how data will be collected, organized, stored, and shared. They act as an interface between business customers and technical teams to prioritize building what matters most to enable the strategic goals of the enterprise.

**Role & Responsibilities**:

- Set the vision and strategy for data products in given domains, guided by a clear understanding of business value and customer needs, ultimately translating these needs as input into the design, build and iteration of data products.
- Create, maintain and own data product roadmaps, leading the ongoing delivery and management of the product from inception to maturity
- Own and manage feature backlogs, teaming with architects, analysts, and engineers to elaborate requirements. This will also include timely reversal of technical debt.
- Identify and manage partnerships required to ensure innovative capabilities at the intersection of data science, technology and healthcare.
- Lead cross-functional teams from ideation to launch of data products ensuring coordination between data platforms, solution architecture, information architecture and data governance so that the final product meets business, technical and regulatory requirements.
- Champion agile, iterative development processes, while also ensuring data products are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable
- Manage dependencies in and across releases to complete release phases and milestones.
- Communicate effectively with the business leaders whose operations are impacted by data products and the programming surrounding them.
- Act as the voice of the business to prioritize building what matters most to enable the strategic goals of the enterprise
- Own and manage the business metadata and metrics for specified data products
- Engage and collaborate with partners and stakeholders to gather input and communicate plans, timelines, and deliveries
- Collaborate with functional Data Office and act as the data owner for the specified data domain: create and improve the relevant data standards; chair the relevant working groups; champion the use of well governed data
- Collaborate with compliance to ensure the appropriate considerations are included in the data standards and identified in the QC processes.
- Perform relevant Data Stewardship activities if assigned to that role

**Requirements**:

- Thrives in a fast-paced work environment, comfortable with complexity and uncertainty at times, lots of humour, dedication to deliver outcomes and motivated by the opportunity to rethink our approach to healthcare.
- Ability to manage a cross-functional product development and deployment process, including teams of people with diverse skills to perform the needed tasks
- Comfortable operating in a heavily matrixed organizations with excellent communication skills and intuition to manage the needs of various stakeholders.
- Solid Project and / or Product management skills, including managing vendors, budgets, timelines and risks.
- Experience bringing innovation to bear on solving complex and multi-dimensional issues from an operational, technical, financial and human perspective.
- Understanding of the principles of Product Management
- Familiarity with data engineering concepts such as ETL, data modelling, data lakes / databases, reference data, master data, etc.
- Experience leading or working on agile development teams
- Excellent leadership, communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience establishing, communicating, and executing product roadmaps
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with the ability to make data-driven decisions
- Ability to rapidly grasp concepts and to manage complexity by simplifying it for others and pr