Strategic Analytics and Enablement Lead

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Introduction to role:

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the world of clinical operations? As the Strategic Analytics and Enablement Lead, you'll be at the forefront of transforming data into actionable insights, ensuring that our teams have access to high-quality, well-governed data. Your work will drive informed decision-making and operational efficiency throughout the drug development lifecycle. Are you up for the challenge?

Operational Data Governance: You'll establish and operationalize frameworks for data stewardship, standardization, lineage, and quality control across key data domains. Your leadership will ensure alignment with enterprise standards, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.

Analytics Project Leadership: Lead impactful analytics initiatives that translate operational data into business insights. Your projects will generate key performance indicators, dashboards, scenario models, and root cause analyses, supporting study teams and clinical operations functions in optimizing trial planning and execution.

By integrating governance with analytics delivery, you'll ensure reliable and traceable data usage, accelerating clinical trial timelines, reducing risk, improving patient access, and enhancing transparency across the portfolio.

Accountability:

1. Data Governance Leadership

• Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of operational data governance frameworks and policies.
• Facilitate data domain ownership, stewardship, and accountability across functions (e.g., study startup, feasibility, site selection, recruitment, resource planning).
• Oversee metadata management, data lineage, and data catalog initiatives for operational data.
• Partner with IT and data platform teams to define data standards, access controls, and quality rules.

2. Analytics Project Delivery

• Lead analytics projects that use governed data to generate actionable insights for Clinical Operations leadership.
• Translate business needs into project charters, scopes, and analytical deliverables.
• Coordinate data discovery, curation, and dashboard/report design with analytics teams (BI, advanced analytics, data science).
• Ensure strong documentation and reproducibility of analytics outputs.

3. Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

• Act as liaison between business, IT, analytics, and governance groups to ensure alignment.
• Champion data quality and literacy initiatives to promote a culture of data-driven decision-making.
• Run working groups, forums, or councils on data governance topics within Clinical Ops.

4. Metrics & Compliance

• Monitor adoption and adherence to data standards and governance practices.
• Define and track KPIs to assess governance impact (e.g., data issue resolution times, dashboard accuracy, business adoption rates).

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master’s in Life Sciences, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.

• 5+ years in data governance, clinical data analytics, or operational data strategy roles within pharma or biotech.

• Strong background in clinical development processes and operational systems (e.g., CTMS, eTMF, EDC, Feasibility tools).

• Proven experience leading cross-functional data or analytics projects.

• Deep understanding of data governance concepts: stewardship, lineage, quality, ownership, and standards.

• Strong project management skills (Agile or hybrid approaches).

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

• Proficiency with data tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Power BI/Tableau, SQL, Python a plus).

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience with Clinical Operations metrics, KPIs, and performance management.

• Exposure to FAIR data principles and semantic data layers.

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements affecting data use in clinical trials.

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