Job Description Summary
The Director Program Lead provides portfolio level leadership and accountability for Clinical Data Strategy execution across a portfolio of programs, ensuring coherent prioritization, risk resolution, and predictable delivery outcomes aligned with DU direction. This role serves as the single CDO escalation and coordination point at program level, represents CDO on Global Clinical Team (GCT), interfaces with GCO sub teams, with direct operational accountability and people leadership for Study Data Leads. Should be able to perform assigned tasks in an independent capacity, needing minimal to no supervision and support. Should be able to provide mentoring and support to the Program Leads (Associate Director (AD), Snr AD). Perform peer/senior review of some of the critical deliverables, as per allocation by Study Data Leads. Act as delegated authority to CDO DU Leads.

Job Description

Job Description
Major accountabilities:

• Lead end-to-end clinical data strategy execution across programs, ensuring alignment with business objectives, DU priorities,



and enterprise standards.
• Drive consistency and quality across trials through standardized data collection, review, cleaning, and delivery approaches.
• Own portfolio-level prioritization, coordination, dependency management, and integration of data strategies across multiple programs.
• Provide people leadership, coaching, mentoring, and performance oversight for Program Leads while developing organizational capability.
• Serve as the primary escalation and decision-making authority for program-level data, delivery, quality, and stakeholder issues
• Represent Clinical Data Operations (CDO) in Global Clinical Teams (GCTs) and GCO governance forums, delivering unified program-level data strategy direction.
• Embed data strategy, vendor strategy, and operational delivery considerations into program execution plans and Operational Delivery Strategies (ODS).
• Ensure proactive risk management, issue r

📌 Director, Program Data Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad