Senior Data Foundations Analyst

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We are looking for a Senior 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)

Internal applicants should be in their current job for at least 12 months, must meet performance standards and are not on formal corrective/disciplinary process (PIP), warning, final warning, or compliance warning letters within the last 12 months. Please inform your Manager or your Talent Partner before applying to any internal job opportunities.

Unless explicitly stated in the description, this role is hybrid with 40% of your time spent in the office, regardless of your current contractual agreement. If your current working arrangements differ, please contact your Talent Partner to discuss before submitting your application.

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.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.

Requisition ID: 93772

Recruiter: Parth Suthar

Hiring Manager: Adam Lichfield

Talent Partner: Yolanda Johnson

Job Level: SA II

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