Hybrid Commercial Data Governance Leader

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 237,000; Full time

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Hybrid work

Total Rewards

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Governance to lead governance strategy, standards, and controls across Vertex's commercial data. You will improve quality, accessibility, security, and responsible data use to support decision-making.

In this role you will define data ownership, metadata, data lineage, and quality rules, and collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and Commercial Operations to implement scalable governance across the organization.

Qualifications

• Data governance frameworks and operating models
• Data quality management, profiling, validation, monitoring, and remediation
• Data catalog, business glossary, metadata, and data-lineage practices
• Master data management and reference-data concepts
• Commercial data domains, including customer, healthcare provider, account, product, sales, market access, and digital engagement data
• Data governance and catalog platforms, such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or similar tools
• Data analysis and reporting tools, such as SQL, Microsoft Excel, Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms
• Customer relationship management and commercial-data platforms, such as Veeva CRM, Salesforce, IQVIA, or comparable systems
• Data privacy, access controls, information security, and compliance principles
• Agile, project management, and process-improvement methodologies

Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial data governance strategy, roadmap, and operating model in alignment with enterprise data governance priorities and commercial business objectives.
• Define and maintain data governance policies, standards, procedures, and controls for commercial data domains.
• Establish clear data ownership, stewardship, and accountability across commercial data assets.
• Partner with data owners and business stakeholders to define critical data elements, business definitions, metadata, data lineage, and data-quality expectations.
• Develop and monitor data quality rules, scorecards, issue-management processes, and remediation plans for priority commercial data.
• Facilitate governance forums, including data governance councils and working groups, to drive alignment, decision-making, and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Commercial Operations, DTE, Insights & Analytics, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure governed data supports business needs while meeting regulatory and company requirements.
• Oversee the documentation and maintenance of commercial data catalogs, glossaries, data standards, and governance artifacts.
• Identify data risks, gaps, and opportunities for process improvement; recommend practical solutions to strengthen data integrity and usability.
• Support the adoption of data governance tools, processes, and training programs across the commercial organization.
• Define and track key performance indicators for data quality, governance maturity, policy adherence, and stakeholder adoption.
• Guide change-management activities that promote a culture of data accountability and informed, responsible data use.
• Stay current on evolving data governance practices, life sciences commercial-data trends, privacy requirements, and relevant technology capabilities.

Job description

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated seeks an Associate Director, Commercial Data Governance to lead governance strategy, standards, and controls across Vertex's commercial data. You will improve quality, accessibility, security, and responsible data use to support decision-making.

In this role you will define data ownership, metadata, data lineage, and quality rules, and collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and Commercial Operations to implement scalable governance across the organization.