Data Business Partner

Job Description

Our local HH Division is recruiting a Data Business Partner to act as a primary liaison between data teams and business areas, enabling collaborative facilitation & guiding data-driven decision making.

This role focuses on understanding business priorities, translating those into data needs, building analytics capability within business teams, and ensuring data products are fit for purpose and used effectively to improve public services. In short-term, this position will be focused on GTM & SIP processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic & operational partnering: translate business needs into prioritized ROI-focused data initiatives and success KPIs.

• Communication & stakeholder influence: lead key conversations to align priorities, building compelling narratives that effectively communicate technical or strategic trade-offs and limitations in business-oriented language.

• Orchestration: coordinate discovery and prioritization of analytics and data products that drive revenue and optimize operations. Maintain visibility over dependencies and delivery pipelines.

• Data Literacy: design tailored data literacy programs to raise capability across business teams; create accessible guidance materials for non-technical audiences.

• Data adoption sponsor: coach business teams to interpret insights, act on recommendations, and embed metrics into day-to-day decision-making.

• Experimentation enablement: build and manage the GTM/commercial experimentation portfolio (hypothesis, measurement plan, decision criteria); coordinate execution with analytics teams; convert readouts into actions.

• SIP Product Owner: Own SIP run cadence, monitoring/exception management, controlled change & release processes, audit-ready documentation, and alignment of incentive metrics to governed performance KPIs.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Analytics, Engineering, Data Science, Actuary, or related field (Master’s a plus).

• Experience

  • 3-5+ years of experience in analytics/business partnering, performance management, commercial operations, or similar roles in a matrix environment (healthcare/pharma preferred).

  • Skilled at negotiating with senior commercial stakeholders, aligning competing priorities, and sustaining momentum through governance.

  • Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of analytics products and influence decisions with senior stakeholders.

  • Experience working with KPI frameworks, governance, or controlled change processes

  • Proven ability to manage cross-functional delivery, handle dependencies, and steward backlogs against limited capacity.

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• Technical Skills 

  • Strong data manipulation skills (Excel SQL, Python, R); able to validate calculation logic and reconcile performance results.

  • Familiarity with BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) and data concepts.

  • Comfort working with structured documentation, controls, and traceability requirements.

• Core competencies 

  • Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills; ability to influence & negotiate without authority.

  • Effective communication in English and Spanish (as applicable).

  • Structured thinking, prioritization, and problem solving.

  • Solid understanding of sales operations, field force dynamics, marketing, customer segmentation, and commercial KPIs.

  • High ownership, attention to detail, and integrity (critical for incentives credibility).

• Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in incentive plan governance and/or automation projects (workflow, controls, audits).

  • Experience setting up experimentation programs (portfolio, templates, readouts), even if not running the analyses personally.

  • Familiarity with data governance practices (KPI dictionaries, stewardship councils, change control).

Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Business Management, Business Partnerships, Customer Segmentation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Data Governance, Data Literacy, Data Visualization, Economics, Prioritization, Requirements Management, Sales Operations, Stakeholder Communications, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Negotiations, User Experience (UX) Design

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Job Posting End Date:

05/2/2026

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