Senior Director, Data and Information Marketplace

Senior Director, Data and Information Marketplace

We're building a connected, end-to-end Enterprise AI engine - uniting data foundations, AI technology, process reinvention, and business-facing AI to accelerate results across the whole value chain. Success depends on being exceptional connectors: you'll actively demonstrate existing capabilities, celebrate and promote reuse, export breakthrough ideas across geographies and functions, and obsess over scaling impact rather than building in isolation. If you thrive in high-collaboration environments where your role is to turn complex, multi-functional problems into reusable, enterprise-wide capabilities - and where the measure of success is adoption and scale, not just innovation - you'll have the platform (and sponsorship) to make it real.

Introduction to role

The Senior Director, Data and Information Marketplace provides strategic leadership for the capabilities, products and governance needed to help humans and intelligent agents discover, share, understand and use data and information quickly, easily and compliantly. This role shapes an integrated Data and Information Marketplace that improves the consumption experience across the enterprise, increases confidence in data and information assets, and ensures they are accessible, transparent, governed and valuable throughout their lifecycle. It ensures that data and information can be used with trust and efficiency, supports responsible and scalable reuse, and drives adoption of product-based capabilities and tooling that enhance enterprise productivity, compliance and decision-making.

Accountabilities

Lead the vision, strategy and roadmap for the Data and Information Marketplace, defining priorities, outcomes, operating model and metrics aligned to enterprise data, AI and business strategy. Translate that strategy into a coherent portfolio of marketplace products and services that simplify how data and information are discovered, accessed and applied in practice. Own the product lifecycle for marketplace capabilities and tooling, ensuring an intuitive consumption experience for both humans 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 the approach to data, information and knowledge lifecycle management, including governance of retention, stewardship, reuse, archival and disposal to maximise value while maintaining compliance. Establish enterprise approaches for unstructured information management that improve discoverability, control and responsible use of information assets beyond traditional structured domains. Embed robust governance and control frameworks across marketplace services, covering confidentiality, integrity and availability requirements and alignment with legal, privacy, security and risk standards. Drive financial transparency and optimisation for marketplace-related platforms and services, including FinOps practices that improve cost visibility, value realisation and balanced scaling. Influence senior stakeholders across business, data, digital, security and compliance functions to secure adoption, prioritisation and continuous improvement of marketplace capabilities and ways of working. Inspire teams to experiment with new technologies and methods that accelerate safe data use, while nurturing a culture of accountability, learning and collaboration. Ask bold questions about how data can transform science, operations and patient outcomes, then turn the answers into tangible products that deliver measurable impact.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Leadership experience in data governance, data management, information management or enterprise data platforms, with accountability for global strategy and delivery.
• Experience in user experience build and evidence of translating this into easy, coherent, seamless experiences that are widely adopted by users and machines.
• Deep expertise in relevant capability areas, including data quality, observability, lineage, access management, lifecycle management and information governance.
• Demonstrable experience in product management and product ownership for enterprise data or information capabilities, including tooling, user experience and adoption at scale.
• Solid understanding of regulated, legal, privacy, security and risk environments, with the ability to balance data accessibility and usability with compliant and responsible control.
• Innovates, experiments and brings external perspectives, with a track record of applying modern technologies and approaches to increase speed, quality and compliance if data.
• Strong collaboration skills, recognising when to utilise and 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 alignment, decisions and enterprise change in a global environment.
• Good 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 or information marketplaces in complex global organisations. Background in biopharmaceuticals or other highly regulated industries. Familiarity with modern data platform architectures, including cloud-native services, knowledge graphs and AI-driven metadata management. Experience applying human-centred design to data products. Track record of building high-performing cross-functional teams spanning engineering, governance, UX and business domains.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge
perceptions. 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 unique and ambitious world.

AstraZeneca brings together science, technology and data to tackle some of the world’s most sophisticated diseases while keeping patients at the centre of every decision. Here diverse perspectives are encouraged, experimentation is valued and people are equipped with the tools, learning opportunities and support needed to grow their careers over the long term. Work has real impact on medicine, society and the planet as part of a distributed team that collaborates across disciplines to turn modern science into life-changing medicines.

If this role sparks your curiosity and ambition, apply now to help shape the future of data-driven healthcare!

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Date Posted

04-May-2026

Closing Date

10-May-2026

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