Associate Director, Data Reporting & Insights

Novartis; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Equity awards eligibility

Paid time off

Job summary

Novartis seeks an Associate Director, Reporting to lead the creation of executive-ready reporting, dashboards, and scorecards that illuminate data quality, governance, and operational performance across critical domains.

You will partner with stakeholders to standardize definitions, metrics, and reporting practices, while guiding vendor relationships and ensuring compliance oversight. This role demands strong communication with executives and a drive for data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (see above).
• 8+ years of experience in data quality reporting, governance reporting, compliance reporting, BI, analytics, or enterprise data management.
• Strong BI skills using Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik, or similar tools.
• Strong SQL skills for sourcing, validation, reconciliation, and analysis.
• Experience with DQ metrics such as completeness, accuracy, timeliness, validity, anomaly detection, and DQ scoring.
• Familiarity with catalog and governance platforms such as Collibra, Alation, OpenMetadata, Collate, Atlan, or similar.
• Experience building executive-level dashboards, scorecards, and board-ready materials.
• Understanding of compliance, audit, privacy, remediation tracking, and governance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reporting solutions for data quality, governance, compliance, and operational performance.
• Create executive-ready dashboards, scorecards, and reporting packages that support strategic decision-making.
• Integrate metadata, governance, and quality metrics into comprehensive reporting frameworks.
• Partner with stakeholders to align reporting definitions, metrics, thresholds, and performance measures.
• Establish reporting processes for incident tracking, remediation monitoring, and compliance oversight.
• Lead external vendor partners supporting dashboard development, reporting automation, and analytics enhancements.
• Validate reporting outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, traceability, and data integrity.
• Manage reporting schedules, documentation, inventories, change controls, and issue resolution activities.
• Automate recurring reporting processes to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Identify and elevate reporting risks, data issues, and compliance concerns to leadership.

Skills

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Qlik

SQL

Data governance

Executive dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or related field

Tools

Collibra

Alation

OpenMetadata

Collate

Atlan

Veeva

Job description

Novartis seeks an Associate Director, Reporting to lead the creation of executive-ready reporting, dashboards, and scorecards that illuminate data quality, governance, and operational performance across critical domains.

You will partner with stakeholders to standardize definitions, metrics, and reporting practices, while guiding vendor relationships and ensuring compliance oversight. This role demands strong communication with executives and a drive for data-driven decision making.