Associate - Data Governance Policy

**Job Title - Associate - Data governance Policy**

**Career Level - C2**

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

**Who we are**:
The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

**About Astrazeneca**

**What we do**:
A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

**How we do it**:
Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

**Why we love it**:

- As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Embrace opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.
- A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.
- We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.
- We are a diverse, inclusive and innovative group who identify, build and deliver excellent shared services (which everyone can leverage) to enable AstraZeneca to grow and change at speed. We are passionate about simple process - making it easier to get vital repeatable services done - for our patients, for our customers, for our teams.
- We focus on providing exceptional value that contributes to our company’s success and future by freeing up the business (our customers) to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines for patients. With the accomplishments, commitment and passion that you bring, I’m excited about what we will achieve together towards realizing AstraZeneca’s bold ambition.

**About the role**

The GBS Data Office (GDO) supports Commercial and Enabling Units business areas.

The Data Governance Administrator is responsible for supporting a range of data governance operational activities to ensure data is acquired, documented, and accessed in line with company policies and standards, as well as contractual obligations. The role will cover a range of activities, such as running data acquisitions, facilitating data sharing, maintaining data catalogues and dictionaries, and supporting colleagues through data access processes.

The role will support aspects of data usage, processes, and initiatives for relevant business areas.

**Typical Accountabilities**

**Data Sharing**
- Support the data governance team in internal data sharing requests
- Handle requests for data sharing with third parties, supporting and ensuring processes completion
- Facilitate data sharing agreements and protocols with external partners and collaborators
- Collaborate and work on TPA (Third Party Agreement) for the data sharing requests
- Track requests and work closely with the Vendor for form submissions
- Support in documenting process SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) and supervise expiration dates

**Data acquisitions**
- Document arguments for data acquisitions from external vendors
- Facilitate the internal request approval process
- Support data requestors through the process and act as first point of contact for requests
- Organise collaborator meetings and discussions as appropriate and keep all collaborators updated on request progress
- Collaborate with other internal teams, such as procurement or IT on progressing the data acquisition request

**Data catalogue maintenance**
- Support the data governance team in creating and maintaining catalogue entries for acquired data
- Collaborate with data vendors on compiling the required metadata
- Support internal data users with understanding the data catalogues and finding the required information

**Data access request management**
- Manage data access requests from internal and external collaborators, according to company and data vendor policy
- Ensure all required information related to each request is available and documented
- Submit required request information to data vendor