Senior Director of Product Management, IQVIA
Data Platforms & Analytics
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Health IT and clinical research company
Posted today
Health IT and clinical research company
1001+ employees
Posted today
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be a catalyst for innovation in healthcare, to drive healthcare forward every day, and make the extraordinary possible for patients.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, Life Sciences, or a related field; advanced degree (MBA, MS, PhD) preferred
- Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience, including senior leadership experience in product management with a focus on data platforms, analytics platforms, or foundational technology products
- Extensive experience leading enterprise data platforms, analytics platforms, or foundational technology products at senior leadership level
- Proven success operating in complex, large-scale, and regulated environments
- Demonstrated experience owning and governing large capital investment portfolios and influencing enterprise-level decisions
- Brings significant Product Management leadership experience, with a proven track record of defining vision, owning end-to-end product strategy, and delivering measurable business impact through cross-functional team leadership
- Deep understanding of modern data platform architectures (cloud data platforms, analytics, semantic layers, AI/ML enablement, integration patterns)
- Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex data-platform concepts to non-technical leaders
- Proven ability to drive alignment and decisions across senior stakeholders in highly matrixed organizations
- Strong financial acumen, including capital planning, investment governance, and value realization
- Experience prioritizing competing initiatives across platform modernization, innovation, and cost efficiency
- Credible senior leader with a track record of building trust across product, engineering, architecture, analytics, and business teams
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, leading through change, and driving clarity at scale
What the job involves
- The Senior Director, Product Management – Data Platforms & Analytics provides strategic and operational leadership for an enterprise-scale data platform portfolio, encompassing cloud data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML–enabled capabilities, and foundational services consumed by downstream applications and business domains
- This role is accountable for defining and executing platform strategy, establishing strong product governance, and ensuring that data and analytics platforms and products deliver measurable business value, scalability, and reuse
- The Senior Director operates as an executive partner across technology, data, analytics, finance, and business leadership, with direct accountability for executive communications and management of annual capital investments
- Data Platform Strategy & Product Leadership:
- Define and own the strategy for enterprise data and analytics platforms, including data ingestion, storage, semantic layers, analytics, and AI enablement
- Provide oversight and leadership for the product strategy and delivery of end-user analytics and data review products utilized throughout the RDS organization
- Translate enterprise data, analytics, and AI strategy into a cohesive, multi-year platform roadmap aligned to business priorities, regulatory requirements, and technology standards
- Ensure platform capabilities are designed for scalability, performance, security, and reuse across multiple products, domains, and customer use cases
- Executive Communication & Stakeholder Leadership:
- Serve as the senior product voice for data platforms with executive leadership, clearly articulating strategy, trade-offs, risks, and business impact
- Develop executive-ready communications including investment proposals, quarterly roadmap reviews, platform health dashboards, and value-realization summaries
- Partner closely with engineering, architecture, data governance, analytics, finance, and business leaders to align priorities and drive timely decision-making in a highly matrixed environment
- Financial & Investment Management:
- Own and govern a $10M+ capital investment budget across data platform initiatives and products, balancing innovation, modernization, and operational efficiency
- Build and defend business cases for major platform investments, including cloud migrations, platform modernization, AI enablement, and cost-optimization initiatives
- Track financial performance, ROI, benefits realization, and product adoption metrics to ensure investments deliver measurable business and operational value
- Platform and Product Portfolio Delivery & Value Enablement:
- Partner with engineering, architecture, and delivery leaders to ensure platform and product roadmaps are executable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards
- Enable downstream product teams by delivering stable, well-documented, and consumable platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery and analytics adoption
- People Leadership & Talent Development:
- Build, lead, and retain high-performing data platform product management teams
- Coach and develop senior product leaders, fostering strong skills in platform thinking, financial acumen, and executive communication
- Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and employee engagement
Salary benchmarks
Our take
IQVIA is a world leader in analytics and clinical research in the life sciences sector. Formed from a merger between IMS Health and Quintiles, it has over 40 years of experience in the sector, growing to become one of the world’s largest contract research organisations, with a network spanning more than 100 countries.
Since its founding, IQVIA has outperformed the market and is focusing on expanding biosimilar firms such as Humira. Humira provides generic drugs from existing medications without needing further data analysis. However, IQVIA’s involvement in new areas of research is likely to offset this trend.
With global medicine spending on track to reach £1.3 trillion by 2025, IQVIA is focusing its efforts on oncology and immunology, the most profitable sectors in pharmaceutical development. It is also building out its technological infrastructure, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. While it is frank about the limitations of this technology within the sector, it greatly augments the data-handling capabilities of health science teams. Development in this sector is key to IQVIA’s growth plans for 2025 and beyond, which is on track with 2023-24 seeing a massive increase in company share value.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2013
$1m
GRANT
Total funding: $1m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Telemedicine
- Critical illness coverage
- Prescription coverage
- Disability, accidental death, pet and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Mental health support
- Well-being programs and events
- Flexible work environment
- Time off for leisure, personal time and corporate holidays
- Parental leave for birth or adoption
- Paid leave for other life matters (i.e., illness, bereavement, jury duty, military service, etc.)
- Training systems
- AI talent marketplace tool
- Leadership training programs
- Employee recognition programs
- Mentorship programs
- Service awards
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid volunteer day
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Office events
- Environmental commitments
- UN Global Impact member
- Retirement and savings plans
- Identity theft protection
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Research Triangle, Durham, NC
Leadership
Ari Bousbib
(CEO)Was previously CEO of IMS Health, one of the parent companies of IQVIA. Before that held senior leadership positions at United Technologies Company, including COO of Otis and eventually becoming President of the UTC group with responsibility for 150,000 employees.
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