Head of Product Data Domains - BE

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Head of Data Domain Products who is strategic, collaborative and business-focused to join our Patient Evidence Digital Transformation organization. This position can be based in our HQ in Brussels, Belgium.

About the role

UCB is building a permanent enterprise data capability to improve how data is understood, connected and applied to critical business decisions, helping accelerate the development of medicines through trusted, reusable and interoperable data products which will support the development of AI.

As Head of Data Domain Products, you will build and lead the enterprise portfolio of strategic data domains and a team of seven Data Domain Product Leads.

Your team is comprised of individuals with deep expertise in both data and the business questions to be answered in the clinical pathway.  For example, an expert on patient data – real world data, clinical data, biomarker data – how it comes together to answer strategic questions on how to develop assets – like feasibility and recruitment.  You will have experts on public data and disease landscape.

You will set strategic direction, establish consistent ways of working and guide priorities, investments, dependencies and trade-offs across the portfolio. Working across business, data and technology, you will ensure domain data products connect business meaning with trusted data and are governed, reusable and capable of supporting business processes, analytics and AI-enabled use cases.

At the heart of the role is a clear objective: aligned domain leadership, reusable enterprise data products and measurable value at scale.

Who you’ll work with

You will lead seven Data Domain Product Leads and partner closely with Patient Evidence leadership, Data Strategy & Architecture, the Data Office, business process owners, domain subject matter experts, Digital Technology, Enterprise Architecture and business and functional leaders.

You will also work closely with Data Portfolio Leads. Domain Product Leads identify, understand and connect data across UCB, while Portfolio Leads draw from multiple domains to address recurring business questions.

What you’ll do

• Lead, coach and develop seven Data Domain Product Leads.
• Set strategic direction for the enterprise data domain portfolio.
• Align domain strategies, roadmaps and investments with business priorities.
• Establish consistent product management and ways of working across domains.
• Lead prioritization of dependencies, investments, risks and trade-offs.
• Drive adoption, reuse and measurable value from domain data products.
• Resolve cross-domain ownership gaps, duplication and strategic issues.
• Ensure alignment with data governance, privacy and compliance requirements.
• Drive consistency with enterprise semantic and architecture standards.
• Enable interoperability across domains, processes and business use cases.
• Strengthen collaboration between Domain Product Leads and Portfolio Leads.
• Ensure data products support priority analytics, automation and AI use cases.
• Communicate portfolio progress, risks, investment needs and outcomes to leadership.

Interested? For this role, we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills:

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Data, Analytics, Life Sciences, Information Management, Technology or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in data expertise and the appilcation of that data to business questions , data strategy, product management, busines data management or enterprise transformation.
• Pharmaceutical industry experience with strong knowledge of data supporting the development and lifecycle of pharmaceutical assets.
• Experience leading enterprise data from a business perspective (not IT or data office), strategic data domains or comparable capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing senior product, data or business professionals.
• Proven accountability for a portfolio of products, capabilities or strategic domains.
• Experience translating enterprise strategy into coordinated roadmaps, investments and measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata, semantic models and interoperability.
• Experience enabling analytics, automation or AI through trusted enterprise data.
• Experience navigating complex cross-functional priorities and trade-offs.
• Strong leadership, coaching, stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Business, Data, Analytics, Life Sciences, Information Management, Technology or a related field.
• Experience working with data to answer business questions across multiple stages of the pharmaceutical asset-development lifecycle.
• Experience establishing or scaling enterprise data operating models.
• Experience connecting business context, data relationships and semantic standards.
• Experience supporting advanced analytics, automation or AI-enabled transformation.

Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you! 

About us 
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are over 9.000 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science. 

Why work with us? 
At UCB, we don’t just complete tasks, we create value. We aren’t afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We ‘go beyond’ to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that’s on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential. 

At UCB, we’ve embraced a hybrid-first approach to work, bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless explicitly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position, roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

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