Data Governance Co-Chair & Exec Council Lead

Novartis Group Companies; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 146,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Group Companies in East Hanover, NJ is seeking a senior data governance leader to stand up and co-chair the Executive Council, coordinating governance across domains.

The role partners with IT, Compliance, Legal and Privacy to develop controls, establish data ownership models, and deliver dashboards and DCAM maturity assessments. Requires 8+ years in regulated data governance with a bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 8+ years in data governance, BI governance, or commercial analytics in regulated industry.
• Experience leading cross-functional governance with real decision authority.
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, privacy regulations and control design.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and co-chair the Executive Council and coordinate all sub-committees.
• Develop charters, terms of reference, meeting cadences, agendas, and decision-tracking.
• Drive alignment of governance priorities with enterprise strategy and risk appetite.
• Establish federated data ownership and stewardship model across domains.
• Partner with IT, Compliance, Legal, and Privacy to develop, validate, and operationalize required controls.
• Develop, document, and maintain control frameworks at each lifecycle stage.
• Collaborate with data owners and enforce governance standards across the end-to-end data lifecycle.
• Build Data Management Lifecycle Scorecards measuring quality, coverage, compliance, and maturity.
• Define Governance KPIs/KRIs (e.g., data quality scores, classification coverage, access-review completion, issue MTTR, policy adoption).
• Deliver executive dashboards and periodic DCAM maturity assessments.

Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Customer Engagement

Customer Insights

Data Analytics

Digital Marketing

Market Research

Media Campaigns

Product Marketing

Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Management

Team Leadership

Waterfall Model

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

OpenMetadata

Collibra

Job description

Novartis Group Companies in East Hanover, NJ is seeking a senior data governance leader to stand up and co-chair the Executive Council, coordinating governance across domains.

The role partners with IT, Compliance, Legal and Privacy to develop controls, establish data ownership models, and deliver dashboards and DCAM maturity assessments. Requires 8+ years in regulated data governance with a bachelor’s degree.