Senior Director, Data and Information Marketplace

Lead the vision for a unified Data & Information Marketplace that transforms how data and information are discovered, accessed and reused across the organisation. Define a clear strategy and roadmap that aligns marketplace outcomes with enterprise data, AI and business priorities, setting measurable goals and operating models that drive impact. Oversee product ownership for marketplace capabilities and tooling, ensuring intuitive experiences for both people and agents across discovery, access, sharing, understanding and use. Advise the development of capabilities for data access, lineage, observability and quality so that data assets are transparent, trusted and usable at scale. Shape enterprise approaches to data, information and knowledge lifecycle management, embedding governance for retention, stewardship, reuse, archival and disposal to maximise value while maintaining compliance. Champion new ways of managing unstructured information to improve discoverability, control and responsible use beyond traditional structured domains. Embed robust governance and control frameworks across marketplace services, aligned with legal, privacy, security and risk standards. Drive financial transparency and optimisation for marketplace platforms and services through FinOps practices that improve cost visibility, value realisation and sustainable scaling. Influence senior leaders across business, data, digital, security and compliance functions to secure adoption, prioritisation and continuous improvement of marketplace capabilities and ways of working. Ready to shape how data powers digital healthcare?

• 10+ years enterprise level leadership experience in data governance, data management, information management or enterprise data platforms, with accountability for global strategy and delivery. * Experience in user experience design and evidence of translating this into easy, coherent, seamless experiences that are widely adopted by users and machines across multiple enterprise business units. * Deep expertise in relevant capability areas, including data quality, observability, lineage, access management, lifecycle management and information governance. * Measurable evidence of optimising the data P&L across covering cost/FinOps, value realisation and sustainability. * Proven experience in product management and product ownership for enterprise data or information capabilities, including tooling, user experience and adoption at scale. * Innovates, experiments and brings external perspectives, with a track record of applying frontier technologies and approaches to increase speed, quality and compliance of data. * Strong collaboration skills and evidence of success in an enterprise-scale federated ownership and delivery model, recognising when to build on the work and skills of others, and when to do themselves. * Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and influence senior partners across functions, driving enterprise alignment, decisions and enterprise change in a global environment. * Strong communication, strategic planning and execution skills, with a track record of defining measurable outcomes, prioritising investments and delivering business value through data and information capabilities.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience leading large-scale data marketplaces or catalogues in highly regulated industries. * Background in applying AI/ML to metadata management, knowledge graphs or intelligent search. * Track record of building data products that directly enable scientific or clinical decision-making. * Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, modern data platforms and automation for data operations. * Evidence of building high-performing global teams that blend engineering, product and governance skills.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challengeperceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our outstanding and ambitious world!