Associate Director, Commercial Data Governance & Strategy

MFS Investments; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Governance to lead governance capabilities across its commercial organization, establishing standards, policies, processes, and controls to improve data quality, accessibility, security and responsible use of commercial data.

The role collaborates with Commercial Operations, DTE, Insights & Analytics, Legal and Compliance to ensure governed data meets business needs and regulatory requirements while driving governance maturity

Qualifications

• Experience building and implementing data governance frameworks and operating models.
• Proven ability to translate complex data concepts for business and technical audiences.
• Experience in regulated industries (pharma/biotech) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead data governance strategy, roadmap and operating model for commercial data.
• Define policies, standards, processes, and controls for commercial data domains.
• Establish data ownership, stewardship, and accountability across assets.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data elements, metadata, and lineage.
• Develop and monitor data quality rules, scorecards and remediation plans.
• Facilitate governance forums and drive alignment and decision-making.
• Ensure governed data supports business needs while complying with regulations.

Skills

Data governance frameworks & operating

Data quality management & remediation

Data catalog, metadata & data lineage

Master data management & reference‑dat

Data privacy, access controls & com

Agile, project management & process

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, data management, computer science, life sciences, or related field

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

SQL

Excel

Tableau

Power BI

Salesforce

Veeva CRM

Job description

Vertex Pharmaceuticals seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Governance to lead governance capabilities across its commercial organization, establishing standards, policies, processes, and controls to improve data quality, accessibility, security and responsible use of commercial data.

The role collaborates with Commercial Operations, DTE, Insights & Analytics, Legal and Compliance to ensure governed data meets business needs and regulatory requirements while driving governance maturity