Global Data Strategy Lead - CX & Commercial Analytics

Jazz Pharmaceuticals; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is seeking an Associate Director, Commercial Global Data Strategy to define and execute commercial data strategy, including data sourcing, vendor management, and governance across the Global Commercial Organization.

The role partners with enterprise data teams to align on ingestion, integration, and standards, driving data-driven insights and AI-enabled customer experiences in a global environment. 20–30% travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, technology, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in commercial data strategy or data sourcing within a pharmaceutical organization.
• Experience with external data sourcing and vendor management, including contract negotiation, SLA oversight, and performance optimization of third-party data vendors.
• Strong understanding of commercial data domains (e.g., HCP/HCO, patient, payer) and how they support business needs in pharma.
• Experience with data cataloging or data inventory tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead global data strategy Global Commercial (GCO) roadmap, including evaluation of emerging data sources, vendor capabilities, and market trends to expand customer, market and engagement insights.
• Own commercial data sourcing approach, including vendor selection, contracting approach, and onboarding requirements, ensuring alignment to priority commercial use cases.
• Manage external commercial data vendor portfolio, overseeing vendor relationships, spend, and performance to ensure delivery against contractual commitments and business expectations.
• Enforce data contract frameworks and SLA performance standards, proactively monitoring vendor delivery, identifying risks and driving corrective actions or adjustments (e.g, renegotiation) to ensure data quality, timeliness, and reliability.
• Drive ongoing vendor optimization and rationalization, identifying opportunities to consolidate vendors, eliminate underperforming sources and improve cost efficiency and data effectiveness.
• Own and maintain the commercial data inventory, ensuring all data assets are accurately documented, discoverable, and positioned for reuse across commercial use cases.
• Partner with CX data master and data management, and enterprise data teams to align on ingestion, integration and governance standards, ensuring commercial data assets are scalable, interoperable and compliant.
• Drive adoption of GCO standardized data governance, stewardship, and quality practices to improve reliability, reduce manual intervention, and enable trusted data capabilities globally.
• Monitor commercial data capability performance across teams to identify optimization opportunities and ensure data quality, reliability, and governance standards meet franchise and global needs.
• Use insights and feedback from franchise leaders, CX team partners, and Global Capability Owners to continuously learn and refine ways of working and priorities.
• Model best practices, influencing ways of working, and contributing to thought leadership within the team.

Skills

Vendor management

Data strategy

Data governance

Contract negotiation

SLA oversight

Data cataloging

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, technology, or related field

Tools

Data cataloging tools

Job description

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is seeking an Associate Director, Commercial Global Data Strategy to define and execute commercial data strategy, including data sourcing, vendor management, and governance across the Global Commercial Organization.

The role partners with enterprise data teams to align on ingestion, integration, and standards, driving data-driven insights and AI-enabled customer experiences in a global environment. 20–30% travel may be required.