Senior Advisor, Data Management & Governance

State Remote

OH-Ohio-Work from Home

US-Nationwide-FIELD

Full time

20190185

Cardinal Health’s Data Office organization empowers the enterprise with trusted, high-quality data to make informed decisions and achieve strategic goals by enabling a data-driven ecosystem where data is a strategic asset.

The Data Management & Governance function serves as the operational backbone and quality engine of the Data Office. The team acquires, standardizes, and protects enterprise and third-party data to power clinical, commercial, and financial decisions while meeting rigorous regulatory and legal standards. Through clear guidelines, quality metrics, and policy enforcement, the team ensures enterprise data remains trusted, secure, and audit ready.

The Senior Advisor, Data Management & Governance leverages advanced clinical pharmacotherapy knowledge, regulatory acumen, and data stewardship principles to oversee enterprise pharmaceutical master data assets. This role is accountable for clinical and regulatory classifications, alternative logic, formulary alignments, and the procurement and integration of third-party data. By driving cross-functional data governance and quality frameworks, this role ensures data flowing across procurement, billing, inventory, and dispensing pipelines is clinically validated, compliant, and operationalized for decision making.

Responsibilities :

• Establish, standardize, and govern critical clinical and product attributes across the master data lifecycle

• Author and maintain data dictionaries, business rules, policies, standards, and validation logic to ensure data integrity during item setup, maintenance, and system conversions

• Lead the strategic alignment of product attributes with industry-standard clinical vocabularies

• Manage clinical, regulatory, commercial, and reimbursement inquiries and execute resolution activities

• Resolve complex data exceptions, discrepancies, and cross-reference mapping errors

• Evaluate regulatory changes and manufacturer notices to assess their operational, clinical, and data impact

• Oversee the procurement, ingestion, transformation, linkage, and maintenance of third-party data and associated reference data

• Collaborate and partner with business leaders to translate strategic objectives and business process and regulatory requirements into scalable solutions across multiple domains (e.g., CSMP, QRA, Finance, Sourcing, Revenue Management, IT, Commercial Technologies, Customer Success, and Account Management)

• Validate external data for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness and convert unstructured data to structured data for ease of use

• Create data views and reports that promote data quality, business insights, and enable accuracy and efficiency for downstream users

• Lead and support data modernization initiatives

• Subject matter expert for clinical and product datasets

Qualifications :

• Must have an active, unrestricted Registered Pharmacist (RPh) license in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, State of Ohio, preferred

• Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (B.S. Pharm) from an accredited college of pharmacy preferred

• 8+ years of experience in related field preferred

• 8+ years in hospital or retail pharmacy, both preferred

• Experience in clinical pharmacy practice, pharmacy informatics, healthcare data stewardship, or pharmaceutical supply chain master data

• Prior experience with pharmaceutical compendia

• Direct experience with enterprise master data management systems or ERP solutions

• Strong understanding of healthcare and pharmaceutical coding systems

• Proficiency using analytical tools to develop creative and innovative insights with high business value

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Proven track record of translating complex clinical nuances into precise technical and operational data requirements

Anticipated salary range: $106,700 - $152,400

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• 401k savings plan

• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• Work-Life resources

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 12/31/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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