Director, Commercial Data Management — Remote-Eligible & Launch-Focused

Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 189,823 - 250,300

Full time

6 days ago

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Retirement match

Job summary

Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. in the Boston/Needham area seeks an Associate Director / Director, Commercial Data Management to build and operate a governed, analytics-ready commercial data ecosystem ahead of our first product launch in epilepsy.

The role partners with Analytics, Sales & Field Effectiveness, Market Access, and IT to ensure data accuracy, quality, and readiness for launch performance, segmentation, KPI reporting, and AI-enabled analytics, with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

Minimum undergraduate degree; 8+ years of relevant management experience or combination of degrees and experience.
Advanced degree in business, analytics, data management, information systems, life sciences, public health, or related field preferred.
5+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences, healthcare data operations, data management, data governance, or related roles.
Experience working with most commercial data sources such as Rx, claims, CRM, HCP/HCO, payer, field activity, digital engagement, and related data assets.
Experience supporting commercial data warehouse, data aggregation, MDM, data governance, data quality, reporting, or analytics initiatives.
Experience managing data vendors, data aggregators, MDM vendors, commercial data platforms, or analytics implementation partners.
Strong understanding of HCP/HCO and payer master data, affiliation management, data stewardship, business definitions, data dictionaries, metadata, lineage, and data quality management.
Ability to translate business needs into data requirements, business rules, vendor specifications, validation criteria, and operational processes.
Experience partnering with IT, analytics, vendors, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and business stakeholders.
Strong project management, vendor management, communication, documentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Ability to operate in a lean, fast-paced, pre-launch or launch-stage biotech environment.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with internal and external partners on developing and operationalizing Xenon’s commercial data ecosystem across pre-launch, launch, and post-launch phases.
Manage and define how commercial data will be governed, documented, validated, accessed, escalated, and used across the organization.
Serve as the primary commercial business partner managing Xenon’s core data service partners and data source partners, IT Partnership.
Partner closely with IT on commercial data platform implementation, platform enhancements, system dependencies, integration patterns, security, compliance, performance, lineage, and architecture alignment.
Translate cross-functional commercial priorities into clear data management requirements, data ownership models, business rules, decision rights, and operating processes.
Establish and maintain data dictionaries, critical data elements, metadata, lineage, and business definitions for priority commercial master data domains.