Senior Data & Vendor Management Leader

Neurocrine Biosciences; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurocrine Biosciences is seeking an experienced leader to manage data contracts, data acquisition, and vendor relationships. You will oversee data quality across pharmacy data, drive onboarding and governance, and partner with Commercial Analytics, Sales, Marketing, and Market Access to deliver trusted insights.

This role requires strong MDM, SQL, and BI skills, with a track record in pharma/biotech data stewardship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field; and significant data management experience.
• Experience with data governance and master data management in pharma/biotech.

Responsibilities

• Manages data contracts with pharmacies including but not limited to specialty pharmacies, closed-door pharmacies etc.
• Responsible for data contracting, data acquisition, and ensuring accurate inventory of data assets.
• Negotiates data purchases, qualifies new data vendors for data acquisition as needed.
• Manages budget for the purchase of all data assets and the associated data agreements
• Manages the data aggregator(s) and data aggregation process across all the contracted pharmacies including mapping the different statuses and sub-statuses across the pharmacies and the data aggregator
• Manages the ongoing quality and application of onboarded data supporting the Neurocrine commercial organization, ensuring high quality data and appropriate use.
• Conducts regular/quarterly business reviews with the contracted entities to ensure the quality, accuracy and timeliness of data meets the organizational needs and identifies areas of improvements needed to meet data quality standards
• Manages all data vendor relationships and associated contracts, service-level agreements (SLAs), etc...
• Conducts business reviews with vendors.
• Manages vendor budgets
• Actively monitors data quality and resolves data-related issues and disruptions.
• Addresses inquiries from internal and field-based teams and investigates and resolves (as needed) data discrepancies related to the specialty pharmacy and closed-door pharmacy data
• Develops a robust data QC process and reporting that proactively identifies potential anomalies in data sources prior to the publishing of data for reporting and analytics.
• Manages the QC process of production reports on an ongoing basis.
• Tests and completes QC on reports when changes/new data added
• Ensures all aspects of data and reporting in downstream applications are conducted in a compliant fashion and are aligned to the needs of the organization and overall corporate direction/strategy/goals
• Performs impact analysis of data events/changes on various commercial operations processes, e.g., Reporting, etc., and engage business owners to align on the action plan
• Effectively communicates with internal stakeholders to build confidence in the accuracy and quality of data, and works collaboratively to address perceived gaps in the data, etc.
• Advises business and commercial teams on best data sources to leverage for a given business question or insight
• Collaborates with other members of the Commercial Analytics and Operations, Sales, Marketing, Market Access team on data onboarding, data validation and communication of data changes to for both field-based and internal reports/systems
• Assists the department in developing Commercial Data Governance policies and identifying gaps in current data management processes and standards
• Manages data-centric projects to resolution, through strategic planning, resource management, execution, and communication, e.g., data onboarding, data events/disruptions
• Maintains accurate inventory of Commercial data assets, and helps build organizational awareness of the uses of the data
• Conducts ad-hoc analysis as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

MDM systems

Relational databases

Data warehouse

Salesforce & Veeva CRM

BI tools

SQL scripting

Excel/VBA

Data acquisition & negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Math

Master's in related discipline

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

QlikView

Job description

Neurocrine Biosciences is seeking an experienced leader to manage data contracts, data acquisition, and vendor relationships. You will oversee data quality across pharmacy data, drive onboarding and governance, and partner with Commercial Analytics, Sales, Marketing, and Market Access to deliver trusted insights.

This role requires strong MDM, SQL, and BI skills, with a track record in pharma/biotech data stewardship.