Data Portfolio Lead (US)

UCB; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

UCB is seeking a Data Portfolio Lead to turn strategic questions into trusted data products that empower analytics and AI across the organization. You will partner with business, data, analytics, and technology teams to translate needs into measurable outcomes and orchestrate cross-domain data initiatives.

You will champion governance, reuse, and scalability while ensuring data quality, adoption, and value realization across a hybrid work environment and multiple office locations.

Qualifications

• Strong business acumen and ability to translate strategy into data requirements.
• Experience turning data questions into measurable business outcomes.
• Cross-domain data product collaboration and governance knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-value questions and opportunities to improve processes through data.
• Translate business questions into data product requirements, success measures, and acceptance criteria.
• Combine data products across domains to create integrated solutions for specific needs.
• Define shared meanings and data models for cross-domain products.
• Align data capabilities with portfolio priorities in partnership with data leads and analysts.
• Validate data and AI capabilities for accuracy and fitness for purpose with stakeholders.
• Ensure data products are discoverable, reusable, governed, and scalable.
• Monitor adoption and business impact to drive value realization.

Skills

Data fluency

Systems thinking

Stakeholder influence

Facilitation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

We are looking for a Data Portfolio Lead who is curious, collaborative, and outcome-oriented to join us in our Transformation initiative program, Ruby, based in either our United States office, in Europe: in our headquarters in Belgium or in our UK based office located in Slough.

About The Role

You will improve critical business decisions and processes across an assigned portfolio by ensuring the right data is available, connected, and usable. You will identify high-value business questions, translate them into integrated data products, and coordinate contributions across data domains. You will also define the shared business meaning and context of these products, helping ensure they are trusted, reusable, governed, and ready to support analytics and artificial intelligence. Your focus will be to turn important business questions into trusted data products and measurable business outcomes.

Who You'll Work With

You will be working in a team that connects business, data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and technology expertise. You will partner with business and process owners, business analysts, data product leads, data operations, data governance teams, subject matter experts, and digital technology teams. Together, you will align reusable data capabilities with portfolio priorities and deliver scalable solutions that support decision-making and business value.

What You'll Do

• Partner with business and process leaders to identify high-value questions, decisions, and opportunities to improve processes through data.
• Translate business questions into prioritized data product opportunities, clear requirements, acceptance criteria, success measures, and measurable outcomes.
• Combine relevant data products across domains to create integrated, fit-for-purpose solutions for specific business needs.
• Define and maintain business concepts, relationships, shared meaning, and context for cross-domain data products.
• Align reusable data capabilities with portfolio priorities in partnership with data product leads and business analysts.
• Validate and test data and artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities for accuracy and fitness for purpose with business stakeholders.
• Ensure portfolio data products are discoverable, reusable, governed, scalable, and ready for analytics and artificial intelligence.
• Monitor adoption, usage, and business impact, using feedback and measurement to drive continuous improvement and value realization.

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following education, experience and skills

• Bachelor's degree in business, data, analytics, life sciences, information management, technology, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
• Experience connecting business strategy, process improvement, data, analytics, and artificial intelligence to measurable business outcomes.
• Experience working across business functions and data domains, translating business questions into data, analytical, and technology requirements.
• Experience combining multiple domain data products into fit-for-purpose solutions that answer specific business questions.
• Experience defining business concepts, shared meaning, relationships, or information models for cross-domain data products.
• Experience partnering with business analysts on specifications, acceptance criteria, testing, validation, and success measures.
• Strong business acumen, data fluency, systems thinking, problem-solving, stakeholder influence, and facilitation skills.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences environments is preferred, with a collaborative and accountable approach across organizational boundaries.

Are you ready to 'go beyond' to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About Us

UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We're over 9.000 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us?

At UCB, we don't just complete tasks, we create value. We are not afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We 'go beyond' to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that's on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

At UCB, we've embraced a hybrid-first approach to work, bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless expressly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position, roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable laws.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on [e-mail]. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.