Data & Process Lead
Job Title: Business Data & Process Lead EP&MR
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Cambridge, ENG
PayScale/ Rate: £ 480-580/ Daily/ Outside IR35
Typical Accountabilities:
- Support the Global R&D deployment workstream, ensuring adherence to project timelines and objectives
- Develop and maintain a clear roadmap addressing both immediate priorities and long-term goals.
- Establish solid understanding of the technology landscape and analyse existing processes to identify the gaps and opportunities using previous working experience/knowledge.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders (including GPPM, finance, IT and Axial teams) to capture their requirements and integrate them into the project scope, defining the relevant end-to-end business processes and data flows.
- Translate business needs into clear, structured requirements for technical teams.
- Support technical ideation, development and build, including:
- Alignment on control records, entity relationships, and persistent identifiers for key data elements
- Working with data product owners to define data products, including source-to-target mappings and required transformations
- Supporting SIT, UAT, and change management activities to ensure smooth delivery into production
- Lead workshops and meetings to collect feedback and devise appropriate action plans.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
Essential Qualifications:
- Considerable experience and exposure to business systems, data platforms (e.g. Snowflake), and those specific to R&D e.g. Planisware (PLANIT)
- Experience in ERP transformation and Business Improvement, using SAP/ experience in technical data roles
- Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of analytics.
- Ability to lead across geographies and cultures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline
Desirable Qualifications:
- Regulatory experience, e.g. GxP, SOx.
- Bio-Tech, Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences experience.
- Experience in large scale, complex & multi-year projects.
- Workshop Management.