The Talent Source has partnered with a life sciences company in the search for a visionary Data leader to join their executive team as the company positions to pursue high-growth market opportunities.  If a remote, game changing opportunity to make a positive impact on the world piques your interest, we would love to chat.

In the meantime, the scope of this role encompasses:

• Leading a team of data engineers and data analysts to implement a modern data ecosystem that will create near-term value and long-term competitive advantage
• Champion a data strategy with a target state architecture that moves data gravity from ERP centric to a commercially centric cross-application sourced data layer through the establishment of a data management program including tools, governance, processes, and sustainment methods
• Determine how to leverage data science, machine learning, and other analytical techniques in building a short and long term program roadmap enabling the data strategy
• Balance the priorities needed to deliver the longer-term target state and related differentiation, while delivering near-term business needs
• Be a thoughtful, responsive, dispassionate voice of simplicity in pursuit of business goals
• Partner with business to deliver data needed to drive performance, in ways the business can easily consume and leverage for better real-time visibility & decision-making
• Enable analysis of large, complex data sets to reveal underlying patterns, correlations and trends quantitatively
• Develop analytics deliverables, including documentation of measurement planning, key business questions, data requirements, and front-end visualization approaches (Business Intelligence/dashboards)
• Partner with strategists (and 3rd parties as need) to leverage data from various platforms (CRM, ERPs, web, industry data aggregators, etc.) in order to develop disruptive insights and actionable recommendations and strategic next steps
• Prioritize program initiatives based on value, dependency, business strategy, and other commercial factors through collaboration with business stakeholders
• Manage data driven initiatives involving timelines, vendor relationships, and budgets to ensure projects are delivered with the highest quality and within specified timeframes
• Lead the development of data science and modeling capabilities in a transformation journey to enable growth at speed and scale targeting solutions to business problems and barriers.
• Investigate and create experimental prototypes that work on specific domains and verticals
• Develop data science solutions that can be tested and deployed to enable data-driven recommendations and outcomes

Experience Sought

• 8-10 years of Data Engineering and Analytics experience and at least 5 years in a data focused leadership position
• Experience conceiving, implementing and continually improving enterprise data management programs including storage, analysis, transformation including enrichment, governance, visualization and intelligence
• 3-5 years of cloud-based data engineering experience including cloud data warehouses and open-source platforms including experience with AWS, Azure, data modeling, cloud data storage and data visualization tools and techniques
• Demonstrated ability using data / systems to drive commercial results
• Experience in high growth businesses, both organic and M&A
• Life Sciences / Industrial and/or Private Equity or Management Consulting experience a plus 
• Advanced expertise in creating and evangelizing best practices and methodologies

Characteristics

• Ability to work in a collaborative, transparent style with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization to lead and deliver results
• Strategic thought leader
• Strong skills in oral and written communication including experience in effectively communicating with executives, employees, colleagues, suppliers and customers

• Self-starter
• Adept at leveraging external expertise and resources to provide speed, scale and capacity
• Biased toward delivery and measurable commercial value

Offering attractive compensation and benefits package to attract proven performers.

This permanent career opportunity is REMOTE, however candidates based on the EST/CST timezone preferred.