Data & Business Taxonomy Lead

Remote in Chicago, IL, US • Posted 9 hours ago • Updated 9 hours ago

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Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC

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Skills

Usability
Supply Chain Management
Organized
Data Structure
Regulatory Compliance
Leadership
Privacy
Collaboration
Data Quality
User Experience
Advanced Analytics
Reporting
Semantics
KPI
Dashboard
Change Management
Training
Durable Skills
Information Management
Computer Science
Data Governance
Taxonomy
Master Data Management
Pharmaceutics
Life Sciences
HIPAA
Meta-data Management
Informatica
Analytical Skill
Modeling
Conflict Resolution
Problem Solving
Communication
Regulatory Affairs
Research and Development
Data Architecture
Data Warehouse
Business Intelligence
Analytics
Microsoft Power BI
Tableau
Quality Management

Summary

Data & Business Taxonomy Lead
Data & Business Taxonomy Lead

The Data & Business Taxonomy Lead plays a strategic role in shaping and governing the enterprise information landscape. This role is responsible for defining, operationalizing, and sustaining business taxonomies, data standards, and metadata structures that ensure consistency, quality, and usability of data across the organization. The lead will partner closely with Regulatory Affairs (RA), Research & Development (R&D), Quality, Supply Chain, Commercial and Digital teams to ensure data is organized, governed, and leveraged as a strategic asset.

This role drives alignment of business terminology, regulatory classifications, and data structures to enable trusted analytics, compliance, and digital transformation. It promotes data literacy, fosters cross?functional collaboration, and supports enterprise data governance initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Taxonomy Leadership

Own the design, development, and maintenance of enterprise?wide business taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and metadata standards.
Translate complex business, regulatory, and technical requirements into structured, scalable taxonomy models.
Partner with subject matter experts to harmonize terminology across functions, regions, and systems.

2. Data Governance & Standards

Serve as the taxonomy representative within the Data Office, ensuring alignment to enterprise data governance policies and frameworks.
Establish and enforce metadata standards, naming conventions, and classification models across RA, R&D, and related domains.
Ensure taxonomies support regulatory needs, including EU MDR, EUDAMED, UDI/GUDID, and privacy requirements (GDPR, HIPAA).

3. Data Quality & Stewardship

Collaborate with data stewards to define data quality rules, validation processes, and lineage requirements tied to taxonomy structures.
Monitor taxonomy adoption and drive remediation for inconsistencies, duplication, or gaps in metadata.

4. Technology & Architecture Enablement

Partner with enterprise architects and system owners to embed taxonomies into digital platforms, data lakes, master data systems, and analytics tools.
Support metadata management technologies (e.g., data catalogues, governance platforms) and improve user experience and findability of key data assets.

5. Analytics & Insights Enablement

Ensure taxonomies support advanced analytics, reporting consistency, and semantic interoperability across systems.
Enable standardized metrics, KPIs, and dashboards through structured and governed business definitions.

6. Change Management & Data Literacy

Develop training, communication, and adoption strategies to promote understanding and correct usage of taxonomies.
Build relationships with business leaders, SMEs, and functional teams to drive alignment and cultural adoption of data governance practices.

Essential Skills & Experience:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, Information Management, Data Governance, Regulatory Affairs, Computer Science, or related field.
Proven experience in data governance, taxonomy design, metadata management, or master data management within a regulated industry (MedTech, Pharma, or Life Sciences).
Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks (EU MDR, GUDID/UDI, GDPR, HIPAA).
Hands-on experience with metadata management or data cataloguing tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation).
Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional stakeholders in matrixed organizations.
Strong analytical, conceptual modelling, and problem?solving skills.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex concepts for non?technical audiences

Preferred:

Experience in RA or R&D environments.
Prior involvement in large-scale digital transformation or enterprise data initiatives.
Familiarity with data architecture, data warehousing, and BI/analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.).
Experience developing taxonomies for regulatory submissions, clinical data, product lifecycle data, or quality systems.

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Dice Id: 10105282
Position Id: 865449
Posted 9 hours ago

Company Info

About Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC

Motion Recruitment delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. Our high-touch, specialized, team-based recruitment model’s success is proven through our exemplary track record in filling the most challenging IT positions for startup and enterprise clients alike. Our hyper-specialized tech focus results in a truly consultative approach for both our clients and candidates, within our recruiting areas of expertise: Software, Mobile, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Product + UX and Functional.

Motion also delivers IT Consulting Solutions through the Motion Consulting Group (MCG) that create true digital transformation for IT projects in Agile Development & Coaching, DevOps & DevSecOps Solutions, and Managed Services for IT Operations.

We’re also the proud creators of Tech in Motion and the Timmy Awards, our North American community platform, events series and award program that connects over 250,000 tech enthusiasts to meet, learn, and innovate.

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