Job Description

15 Petabyte of data hosted, 49 countries supported, 15000 servers and thousands of devices to connect locations and businesses The role will drive the development and execution of Novartis\' ambition to turn data into a strategic asset across the organization by leading the definition, implementation, and adherence to the overall data governance activities. This role will guide and manage the company\'s Data Governance and Data Management program throughout the organization. In addition, it will be responsible for providing leadership and direction for all organization-wide data governance activities with a focus on establishing and ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework. Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to: . Support the Lead and drive development of the enterprise data governance structure establish enterprise data governance committees, define data governance roles, accountability and ownership, and decision rights lead realization of data as an asset. . Responsible for ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework for data practices, policies, and standards both at a technical and functional level. Support the Data Governance Leadership backing up for data governance, data risks. Also responsible for the formulation and validation of the relevant policies across data governance categories, including access, lineage, quality, security, change management, and environment. . Lead the definition of Data Governance roles, accountability, and ownership and decision rights across the enterprise and drive data governance initiatives and lead the establishment of a Data Governance Program, Build the governance processes and systems to execute, federate, and adapt data strategy across operational units . Co-Lead the enterprise level data governance practices such as governance forums, setting up controls, measurement of data maturity across organization and oversee that policies and processes related to data governance initiatives like data quality, access management, acceptable use etc. are communicated and enforced throughout the organization . Define, manage and mitigate enterprise risks related to data management and seek executive support where required to remediate actions and Design & Develop Data Governance RoadMap and provide transparency on the progress at periodic intervals . Recommend and provide inputs to the DG Lead regarding the Data Policy and the emerging opportunities it brings. Support in educating, guiding and coordinating the implementation of Data Governance Strategy across operational units . Examine trends, develop insights, and collaborate on solutions to sustain and strengthen the data policies in the organization for emerging needs and act as deciding authority for various governance templates, SLAs and benchmarks on various policies, as well as on decisions regarding whether governance tools should be considered . Works with the business units, IT teams to ensure data ownership and quality, and with ISRM, Data privacy and data security teams and facilitate bi-directional communication of strategies, priorities and issues and monitor and enforce organizational performance against data-specific goals and standards, maximizing value, and mitigating risks Diversity & Inclusion / EEO Minimum Requirements What you\'ll bring to the role: . 10-15 Years of relevant experience in Data Governance & Data Strategy, with at least 4+ years of international experience working with Global teams and 2 years in Pharma/Healthcare. . In-depth experience of data governance /information management practices, systems and processes including data governance, data modelling, master data management, meta-data management, data quality management . Ability to build strong and trusted relationships with senior level business and technical partners with cross-industry experience is highly preferred . EDM Council DCAM Framework model experience is preferred, but not mandatory . Experience with ERP implementations in a large, multi-national environment with strong business process acumen, with focus on business processes enabled in ERP platforms . Workflow capability that operationalizes the data supply chain and data usage across the data ecosystem and the way users/applications interact with system . Data Quality and profiling capability to help identify and govern condition of a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables. . Understand data Ownership capability for applying quality control discipline to assessing, managing, using, improving, monitoring, maintaining, and protecting organizational information. Why consider Novartis 769 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2022, and while we\'re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people\'s lives. We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working. We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what\'s possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world\'s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying! Imagine what you could do here at Novartis! India Accessibility and accommodation Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. 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