Associate Director, Data Onboarding

About Cedar Gate Technologies

Cedar Gate Technologies an IQVIA business enables payers providers employers and service administrators to excel at value-based care with a unified technology and services platform delivering analytics care and payment technology on a single data management foundation. At Cedar Gate youll be part of a collaborative innovative environment where great ideas thrive. We invest deeply in our people through ongoing training comprehensive benefits and a strong culture of teamwork offering the chance to grow your skills while contributing to high impact initiatives for some of the worlds most dynamic companies.

Position Summary

As the Associate Director Data Onboarding you will have the opportunity to lead meaningful work that improves how healthcare organizations use data to drive performance and outcomes. You will work alongside smart motivated people who value ownership transparency and execution excellence.

Cedar Gate Technologies an IQVIA business is scaling fast and our data onboarding function sits at the center of everything we deliver to clients. We are looking for a leader who is energized by complexity ownership and growth and who wants to shape how healthcare data gets acquired onboarded and turned into actionable results at scale.

As the senior SME between clients technology and operations this leader translates complex data requirements into executable plans and provides oversight across all data onboarding initiatives including the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) program. The role requires setting vision governing outcomes and leading and developing a team of people managers while driving operational rigor risk management and continuous improvement through complex implementations and escalations.

This is not a maintenance role. This is building the future of healthcare data

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own and govern the enterprise data onboarding operating model including standards decision frameworks success metrics and escalation mechanisms.
• Set strategic direction for data onboarding initiatives translating business and platform priorities into delivery expectations and operating plans.
• Establish and enforce enterprisewide frameworks methodologies and controls to ensure consistency scalability and risk management across onboarding efforts.
• Provide executivelevel oversight across all onboarding workstreams ensuring alignment to PMO governance delivery timelines and quality expectations.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex data risks crossfunctional issues and clientimpacting decisions driving resolution and accountability.
• Oversee performance management through defined KPIs related to data quality readiness implementation integrity and timetovalue.
• Lead and develop a management layer of data onboarding and program leaders including succession planning capability development and organizational design.
• Maintain strategic relationships with thirdparty data providers to support enterprise data acquisition needs and operational reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement through operating metrics retrospectives and evolution of documentation standards and enablement materials.

Job Location

Burlington MA (Greater Boston)

Work Arrangement

Hybrid (3 days in office 2 remote)

Experience / Qualifications

• 7 or more years of progressive experience in data operations analytics system implementation or solution delivery is required
• 4 or more years of healthcare technology healthcare services or related industry is required
• At least 3 years of demonstrated leadership responsibility in a professional environment is required
• Proven ability to manage and guide complex programs involving numerous stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of healthcare data domains (e.g. analytics population health capitation revenue cycle or value-based care)
• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience; MBA or Masters degree from a top university is preferred
• Prior experience with data acquisition from third-party data providers within the healthcare industry is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated success operating at both strategic and execution levels including executive communication and frontline decision-making
• Experience mentoring or leading other managers in a professional environment is preferred
• Exceptional written verbal and presentation skills; comfort engaging with client and internal executives
• Strong organizational prioritization and operational management skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and related business tools

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