Lead Data Operations - Middle East (Saudi Arabia)

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva's OpenData Commercial platform provides life science companies with real-time reference data across the complete healthcare ecosystem, to support their commercial sales execution, compliance, and business analytics.

The platform is live in 100+ countries and, as Lead Data Operations, you will supervise a remote team of Data Stewards who source, validate and update regional healthcare data. Your role is to promote a positive and rewarding team culture that is detail-oriented and strives for excellence when it comes to data quality.

As the ideal candidate for this role you will have a strong interest in people management, a process-oriented mindset, and an excellent work ethic.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of 8 to 15 Data Stewards
• Deliver on the team targets (quality, productivity, efficiency)
• Grow and develop your team
• Work with the Product Manager to understand the product roadmap requirements and allocate work and resources to meet project deadlines
• Design, document, innovate, and optimize processes to ensure best-in-class delivery of data quality and efficiency
• Support additional projects and ad-hoc tasks related to data stewardship

Requirements

• 1+ years of leading and managing high-performance teams
• Fluent in English and Arabic
• Experience and understanding of Saudi Arabian market (preferably in Health Care System)
• Strong interest in people management
• Process and result-oriented mindset
• Highly conscientious (organized, analytical, “can do” attitude)
• Proficiency in Windows, Google Apps, MS Office, and other office software
• Highly organized, attention to detail, and focus on quality

Nice to Have

• Experience working with MDM (master data management applications)
• Local Healthcare market understanding
• Previous experience or interest in data, databases