Data Foundations Analyst

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for a Data Foundations Analyst who is collaborative, proactive, and solutions oriented to join our Commercial Data Operations team, based at our U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. This hybrid role requires a minimum of 40% on-site presence and 5% domestic travel.

About the Role

You will serve as a key member of UCB's Data Governance team, owning the intersection of data stewardship, financial operations, and vendor management. In this role, you will manage commercial data assets and contracts, oversee budget planning activities including operating expense forecasting, accruals management, spend tracking, and annual planning cycles, and ensure licensed data is used compliantly across the organization. You will act as the primary coordinator for vendor relationships, Statements of Work, purchase orders, and third-party data-sharing agreements while maintaining data catalogs, access controls, and governance processes. Success in this role requires strong financial acumen, process ownership, attention to detail, data governance knowledge, and the ability to manage vendor relationships, budgets, contracts, and competing priorities with a high degree of accuracy and accountability.
Who you'll work with

Internally, you will partner with: Finance, Information Technology, Procurement, Legal, Data Governance, Commercial Data Operations, and business stakeholders across the organization to support budgeting, data access, compliance, and operational initiatives.

Externally, you will work with: data suppliers, software and data vendors, consulting partners, and authorized third parties to manage contracts, data licensing agreements, vendor performance, and data-sharing approvals.

What you'll do

• Manage Commercial Data Operations financial activities, including annual budgeting, forecasting, accruals, spend tracking, and operating expense management.
• Own vendor management processes, including Statements of Work, purchase orders, contract routing, approvals, renewals, and supplier relationships.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for third-party data-sharing agreements, ensuring compliance with licensing and usage requirements.
• Administer data governance policies, access management controls, data catalogs, and metadata standards to support data quality and stewardship.
• Partner with Finance, Information Technology, Procurement, Legal, and business stakeholders to support data acquisition, compliance, and operational initiatives.
• Evaluate and manage relationships with data providers and vendors, identifying opportunities to maximize the value of data investments.
• Lead recurring governance and information management meetings, communicate key updates, and support continuous process improvement efforts.
• Analyze business needs, manage competing priorities, and implement solutions that improve operational efficiency, compliance, and data accessibility.

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following education, experience and skills
Minimum Experience/Skills Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Technology, Risk Management, Accounting/Finance, or comparable field
• 4+ minimum years of experience in finance, data governance or in a related role
• Proficiency in web portal tools and MS Office tools, incl. Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio
• Basic understanding of Data Systems, System Architecture, and Data Warehouses

Preferred Experience/Skills:

• Ability to manage priorities, tight deadlines, and expectations on multiple tasks with a high degree of quality, while managing shifting business needs
• Ability to routinely demonstrate strong quantitative, analytical, and complex problem-solving skills without supervision
• High degree of leadership, integrity, and work ethic with a positive attitude
• Strong learning agility and self-motivation, with a focus on patient value creation in a dynamic environment
• Programming language experience (SQL, Python, R)

The reasonably anticipated salary range for this position is $88,000-$115,500 per year. The actual salary offered will take into account related knowledge, skills, experience and location among other factors and may fall outside the expected range.

Are you ready to 'go beyond' to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About us
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are over 9.000 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us?
At UCB, we don't just complete tasks, we create value. We aren't afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We 'go beyond' to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that's on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

At UCB, we've embraced a hybrid-first approach to work, bringing teams together in local hubs to foster collaborative curiosity. Unless explicitly stated in the description or precluded by the nature of the position, roles are hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

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