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As Senior Manager, Data Steward, you will lead stewardship of critical Pharma R&D data domains, ensuring data quality, compliance, and usability across the research and development value chain. Leveraging your subject matter expertise, you will act as mentor to our team of data stewards and , partnering closely with governance, data product, and business domain leaders to operationalize data standards, resolve data issues, and deliver trusted, governed data products, and will potentially move into a management position ultimately. This role is central to turning R&D data into a strategic asset, fueling AI/ML, enabling data-driven insights, and business outcomes.

Essential Functions of the job:

Data Stewardship Leadership

+ Mentor a team of data stewards assigned to support multiple R&D domains

+ Define stewardship roles, workflows, and accountabilities to ensure clear ownership of data entities, business metadata, and processes.

+ Act as escalation point for complex data issues, ensuring timely resolution and alignment with governance policies.

Operational Stewardship & Standards

+ Operationalize data governance policies, standards, and SOPs in partnership with the governance team.

+ Define, maintain, and curate business metadata (e.g., data definitions, glossary terms, business rules, usage context) within data catalog.

+ Ensure consistency of business metadata across domains to avoid duplication, misinterpretation, or misalignment.

+ Monitor and enforce data quality, completeness, and accuracy across operational systems and data products.

+ Ensure data and metadata are managed in compliance with internal and external standards.

Data Quality & Issue Management

+ Define and track domain-specific data quality metrics; coordinate remediation with data engineering and business partners.

+ Maintain metadata-driven data quality rules to ensure trusted data for downstream consumption.

+ Establish root-cause analysis and preventive action processes to reduce recurring data issues.

+ Drive continuous improvement of stewardship workflows through automation and AI/GenAI tools (e.g., automated metadata tagging, anomaly detection).

Cross-Functional Collaboration

+ Serve as the key stewardship liaison for functional partners (Clinical Ops, Safety, Regulatory, Portfolio, Research).

+ Collaborate with data product teams to ensure domain data and business metadata are curated, contextualized, and analytics-ready.

+ Partner with governance and enablement leads to align stewardship with enterprise data architecture, data catalog, data quality and data marketplace capabilities.

Enablement & Culture

+ Build training, guidance, and support materials to enable business users to understand and leverage governed data.

+ Drive awareness and adoption of stewardship and metadata practices through forums, knowledge-sharing, and communities of practice.

+ Champion a data-driven culture by highlighting the value of trusted data and contextual business metadata in enabling insights and compliance.

Metrics & Value Realization

+ Track stewardship performance (e.g., data quality improvement, metadata coverage, issue resolution turnaround, compliance readiness).

+ Report stewardship value delivered such as time saved, reduction of manual rework, and risk avoidance enabled by data governance.

+ Provide transparent reporting to governance councils and leadership on stewardship, adoption, and impact.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

+ No

Computer Skills:

+ Microsoft Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)

Qualifications:

+ Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

+ 7+ years of experience in data stewardship, governance, or data management, with strong exposure to Pharma R&D data.

+ Proven ability to manage and mentor data stewardship teams.

+ Deep understanding of Pharma R&D data domains, regulatory requirements, and data standards.

+ Hands-on experience with stewardship and metadata platforms (e.g., Informatica CDGC/CDQ for cataloging and business metadata, Collibra, Reltio, Databricks).

+ Strong problem-solving and stakeholder management skills with ability to balance scientific, operational, and compliance needs.

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present stewardship and metadata value to leadership.

+ Demonstrated commitment to building a culture of data trust, quality, and contextual understanding.

Travel:

+ Minimal

BeOne Global Competencies:

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Collaborative Spirit, Bold Ingenuity and Driving Excellence, through our twelve global competencies below, we help get more affordable medicines to more patients around the world.

+ Fosters Teamwork

+ Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback

+ Self-Awareness

+ Acts Inclusively

+ Demonstrates Initiative

+ Entrepreneurial Mindset

+ Continuous Learning

+ Embraces Change

+ Results-Oriented

+ Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis

+ Financial Excellence

+ Communicates with Clarity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.