Senior Advisor, Data Management & Governance

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