Senior Data Reporting Lead — Dashboards & Governance Remote

Novartis; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis in East Hanover, NJ seeks an Associate Director, Reporting to lead the development of executive dashboards, data quality, governance and compliance reporting across critical data domains. You will partner with cross-functional stakeholders and leverage metadata platforms to shape a culture of trust and data-driven decision making as part of our mission to reimagine medicine.

The role requires strong SQL skills, 8+ years in BI/analytics, and experience with governance tools; it offers a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a relevant field.
• 8+ years of experience in data quality reporting, governance reporting, compliance reporting, BI/analytics, or enterprise data management.
• Strong BI skills using Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik, or similar tools.
• Strong SQL skills for sourcing, validation, reconciliation, and analysis.
• Experience with DQ metrics such as completeness, accuracy, timeliness, validity, anomaly detection, and DQ scoring.
• Familiarity with catalog and governance platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Collate, or OpenMetadata.
• Experience building executive-level dashboards, scorecards, and board-ready materials.
• Understanding of compliance, audit, privacy, remediation tracking, and governance reporting.
• Pharma compliance or commercial data experience (HIPAA, OIG, Sunshine Act, HCP, Rx, IQVIA, Veeva) preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, attention to detail, and vendor management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reporting solutions for data quality, governance, compliance, and operational performance.
• Create executive-ready dashboards, scorecards, and reporting packages to support strategic decision-making.
• Integrate metadata, governance, and quality metrics into comprehensive reporting frameworks.
• Partner with stakeholders to align reporting definitions, metrics, thresholds, and performance measures.
• Establish reporting processes for incident tracking, remediation monitoring, and compliance oversight.
• Lead external vendor partners supporting dashboard development, reporting automation, and analytics enhancements.
• Validate reporting outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, traceability, and data integrity.
• Manage reporting schedules, documentation, inventories, change controls, and issue resolution activities.
• Automate recurring reporting processes to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Identify and escalate reporting risks, data issues, and compliance concerns to leadership.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Vendor management

Data governance

Business analytics

Data quality concepts

Compliance reporting

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Qlik

Collibra

Alation

OpenMetadata

Job description

Novartis in East Hanover, NJ seeks an Associate Director, Reporting to lead the development of executive dashboards, data quality, governance and compliance reporting across critical data domains. You will partner with cross-functional stakeholders and leverage metadata platforms to shape a culture of trust and data-driven decision making as part of our mission to reimagine medicine.

The role requires strong SQL skills, 8+ years in BI/analytics, and experience with governance tools; it offers a