Data Champion Lead

Are you looking to expand your expertise in systems strategy in a global environment that allows you to keep pace with the speed of change?  At GSK, we are transforming how new technologies are used to improve performance across the organization.

As a Data Champion Lead, you will spearhead the development and implementation of a robust data strategy that aligns with the company's commercial and strategic objectives. This role will focus on optimizing data utilization across all channels, ensuring data governance, and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making throughout the organization.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

1. Data Strategy Development:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy to support the company’s overall business objectives.
• Align data initiatives with the company's commercial and strategic objectives.

2. Business Needs Understanding:

• Collaborate with various departments to understand their data needs and provide actionable insights.
• Translate business requirements into data solutions that drive business growth and efficiency.

3. Stakeholder Management:

• Engage with key stakeholders, including Commercial Excellence, Field Force, and Business Unit teams, to ensure alignment and effective communication of data strategies.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote data-driven decision-making.

4. Data Analysis and Optimization:

• Lead data analysis projects across all areas of data within the company to generate insights and optimize processes.
• Utilize programming languages such as Python, Excel, and Power BI to analyze data and generate insights.

5. Omnichannel Approach:

• Drive the optimization of our omnichannel strategy, ensuring data integration and consistency across all channels to provide a seamless customer experience.

6. Data Governance and Quality:

• Hold ownership and accountability for the data within your designated domain, ensuring its accuracy, reliability, and compliance with DG standards.
• Enforce Data Quality (DQ) rules and standards, collaborating with data stewards to maintain high data quality levels and address any discrepancies.
• Develop and execute strategies for effective data management, aligning data initiatives with business operations, strategic objectives, and analytics requirements.
• Ensure compliance with metadata, lineage, DQ, and data access requirements, in line with established DG framework.
• Review, provide feedback, and approve data classifications and accesses, ensuring appropriate data access controls are in place.

7. DG Process Enforcement:

• Ensure adherence to DG processes and standards set by the EM DG core team, implementing necessary measures to uphold data governance principles.
• Conduct regular audits, facilitate training sessions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

8. Data Management and Metadata Management:

• Identify and prioritize critical data/CDEs, mapping their lineage, and facilitating the development of business glossaries and lineage documentation.
• Review and approve business metadata and lineage definitions, ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in data science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Proven experience in a data leadership role within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• Strong understanding of data analysis, data management, and data visualization tools (Python, Excel, Power BI).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute data strategies that drive business growth.
• Experience with omnichannel marketing strategies and digital communication platforms.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry’s regulatory environment and data privacy requirements.
• Proficiency in additional data analysis tools and technologies.
• Experience in SAP implementation and management.
• Proven experience as a Master Data Management Lead.
• Familiarity with data integration tools and techniques.
• Experience in leading data migration projects.
• Understanding of AI and machine learning applications in data analysis.

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
• Sustaining energy and well-being
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
• Budgeting and cost-consciousness

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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