Senior Manager, Data Strategy
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Career Category
Sales & Marketing OperationsJob Description
Department
Business Excellence (BizEx)
Job Posting Title
Senior Manager Data Strategy (GCF6A)
Job Description
The Senior Manager Data Strategy will lead a newly established function within Business Excellence launching in January 2026 with a mission to build a strong and agile data foundation that enables insight-driven decision-making across the organization.
The role will oversee the management and governance of Japanese commercial and operational data within the JAPAC MDM/Data Lake drive the optimization of local dashboards and lead system and process innovation to integrate and analyze multiple datasets for actionable insights.
This position requires a balance of technical understanding business acumen and leadership to drive data utilization across functionsaddressing long-standing challenges such as:
- Difficulty locating relevant dashboards or data sources.
- Delays in obtaining data required for analysis.
- Limited agility in creating dashboards and visualizations on demand.
- Challenges in generating insights across multiple datasets.
The Senior Manager will partner closely with Technology TXO Commercial Medical and Finance functions in addition to O-US BAI team to advance data accessibility governance and utilization across Amgen Japan.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee data management of Japans datasets within the JAPAC MDM and Data Lake environments ensuring governance accuracy and compliance.
- Manage local dashboards by coordinating design maintenance and user enablement to ensure high usability and accessibility.
- Lead the creation of systems and workflows that enable insight generation through the integration and analysis of multiple data sources.
- Build and maintain strong collaboration with global and regional data teams to align Japans data initiatives with enterprise strategy.
- Drive data literacy and culture change across the organization by promoting the use of data for decision-making.
- Develop and manage a roadmap for data strategy and analytics capabilities balancing short-term business needs with long-term scalability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to identify opportunities for automation data visualization and AI-powered analytics.
This role reports to the Director Business Excellence and plays a central part in transforming Amgen Japan into a truly data-driven organization.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Data Science Computer Science Business Administration or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in data management analytics or business intelligence within the pharmaceutical or related industry.
- Proven experience in data governance master data management (MDM) and dashboard development.
- Strong understanding of data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau Power BI) and data infrastructure (e.g. data lakes SQL cloud-based environments).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in both Japanese and English.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence at multiple organizational levels.
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree in Data Science Information Systems or Business Analytics.
- Deep expertise in data management methodologies and hands-on experience implementing data governance frameworks.
- Proven ability to translate data into strategic business insights that drive organizational decisions.
- Strong belief in the power of data to enable organizational transformation and demonstrated experience in change management.
- Hands-on experience in data analysis predictive modeling or AI/ML applications.
- Experience working within global organizations and collaborating with regional data teams.
- Strong curiosity and proactive mindset to explore new data tools AI capabilities and best practices in data-driven operations.
Location (City)
Tokyo
.Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Key Skills
- Marketing
- Data Visualization
- Tableau
- Customer Segmentation
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Investment Banking
- Strategic Planning
- Financial Modeling
- Customer relationship management
- Management Consulting
- Google Suite
- Analytics
About Company
Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses. As an organization dedicated to improving the ... View more
