Associate Director Health Data Strategy & Partnerships

Overview

In this role you will shape and lead high-impact health data initiatives, translating challenges into scalable data solutions. You will work across clinical, scientific, commercial and digital teams to advance data-driven healthcare innovation through strategic partnerships. Your leadership will guide governance, programme delivery and stakeholder alignment to improve patient outcomes and healthcare systems. This opportunity offers a chance to influence the health data landscape within a mission-driven organisation at the intersection of health, research and data.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop strategic opportunities in the health data ecosystem
• Create business cases and investment plans for new initiatives
• Translate market needs into scalable data solutions
• Develop long-term strategies to maximise health data value
• Build and maintain senior stakeholder relationships across healthcare, industry and academia
• Establish strategic partnerships to accelerate innovation
• Represent the organisation in health data networks
• Drive cross-functional collaboration among clinical, technical, commercial and external stakeholders
• Design and mobilise complex health data programmes
• Define governance, milestones and success measures for programmes
• Oversee end-to-end programme development and delivery
• Manage risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations across initiatives
• Support programmes leveraging real-world and clinical data
• Contribute to initiatives in clinical research, patient identification, evidence generation and healthcare innovation
• Evaluate opportunities in digital health, AI-enabled solutions and data-driven research
• Provide subject matter expertise on health data strategy and ecosystem development
• Influence senior leadership with strategic guidance
• Support organisational growth through strategic planning and partnerships
• Mentor cross-functional teams to achieve outcomes

Key requirements

• Significant experience in health data, healthcare strategy, real-world evidence or digital health
• Proven track record of developing strategic programmes from concept to implementation
• Experience with health informatics, population health or clinical research data
• Strong stakeholder management in complex, matrixed environments
• Demonstrated success in partnership development and cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills

• relationship-building
• stakeholder engagement
• ability to navigate ambiguity
• health data governance
• interoperability and data access frameworks
• real-world data and healthcare datasets

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