Senior Manager, R&D Data Steward (Remote - US)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Manager, R&D Data Steward in the United States.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager to lead data stewardship across critical R&D domains, ensuring data quality, compliance, and usability throughout the research and development lifecycle. In this role, you will mentor a team of data stewards while collaborating with governance, data product, and business domain leaders to operationalize standards, resolve complex data issues, and deliver trusted data products. You will drive continuous improvement through automation and AI tools, helping transform R&D data into a strategic asset that fuels insights and supports business outcomes. This position offers the opportunity to shape data governance practices, enhance operational efficiency, and foster a data-driven culture in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Accountabilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data stewards supporting multiple R&D domains.
• Define stewardship roles, workflows, and accountabilities to ensure clear ownership of data entities, metadata, and processes.
• Act as the escalation point for complex data issues, ensuring timely resolution aligned with governance policies.
• Operationalize data governance policies, standards, and SOPs across the organization.
• Curate and maintain business metadata, ensuring consistency and compliance across systems and data products.
• Monitor and enforce data quality, completeness, and accuracy, driving remediation and preventive action processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Clinical Ops, Safety, Regulatory, Portfolio, Research) to ensure analytics-ready, contextualized, and trusted data.
• Develop training, guidance, and enablement materials to foster adoption of stewardship practices and a data-driven culture.
• Track stewardship performance metrics and report value delivered to leadership, highlighting improvements in data quality, efficiency, and compliance.

Requirements

Benefits

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly.

🔍 Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience, and achievements.

📊 It compares your profile to the job’s core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.

🎯 Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the 3 candidates with the highest match to the role.

🧠 When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed.

The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role. Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.

Thank you for your interest!

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