r&d data quality - Expert In Recruitment Solutions

location: remote BUT WILL give preference to anyone local to skillman, nj OR philadelphia, pa to go onsite once a week!
duration: 1 year+

• Define and document data standards that keep us ahead of our competitors.
• Automate data quality monitoring and use metadata to improve the usability and value of data in a dynamic environment.
• Create predictable change management of data, data models, ontologies, and related artifacts to accelerate time-to-insight.

To maximize the value of our institutional knowledge, the data analyst will drive communication, integration, and automation of data flows across the organization. They also educate and enable our business partners to answer their own questions with data. These answers support critical outcomes like sustainable innovation, product resiliency, and our healthy lives mission.

The data analyst will be responsible for up to 3-4 specific functional data domains, acting as a liaison between the R&D functions and R&D Technology.

Major Duties & Responsibilities
[Manager-level]/[Principal-level]

• 30% / 20% - Create standard ontologies to align business terminology, data definitions, and quality metrics
• 20% / 15% - Creation, communicate, and own key data quality metrics relevant to all stages of R&D product development lifecycle
• 20% / 10% - Establish, promote, and implement data governance and policies
• 10% / 25% - Act as a liaison between IT and business partners for data-related needs, queries, and issues (for internally generated data)
• 10% / 30% - Create data analytics, visuals, and reports with insights and actions to improve data quality

Other Duties

• Create and update data catalogs to provide a comprehensive view of the data inventory
• Evaluate new data sources, manage current inventory of data, ensure data quality, and implement processes and tools to ensure appropriate generation and usage of data
• Represent R&D in the cross-functional "End to End” data streams working to drive efficient processes for the creation, collection, maintenance, and downstream use of data across Kenvue
• Collaborate with colleagues on data validation and data coordination activities
• Understand requirements and ensure compliance with data asset licensing agreements
• Lead pilot projects to assess value of new data tools and processes
• Quantify organizational impact of data
• Oversee and ensure consistency across data stewardship team and wider organization to reinforce accountability model

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Library and Information Sciences, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology or a related field.
• Knowledge of how to create data definitions and standards, determine business data requirements and business rules
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey information clearly to both business and technical audiences
• Excellent understanding of data governance, principles, and concepts.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, or other languages for querying data.
• Proficiency in data visualization
• Alertness and sensitivity for data inconsistencies

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Quality Analyst or similar role in a consumer package goods or consumer health R&D environment.
• Experience creating Entity Relationship Diagrams and other technical data architecture documentation
• Experience with the consumer health product development process
• Experience with change management in a global organization