Director, Data & Analytics

About the job

As the Director, Data & Analytics you will be responsible for end-to-end management and development of the Orifarm’s data and analytics capabilities and services. This role ensures the availability, accuracy, governance, and business value from data across Orifarm.

The role has overall leadership responsibility across Data Engineering, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, and Data Architecture to design, build, operate, and continuously improve enterprise data platforms, BI, analytics solutions, and master data management that enable reliable business operations, regulatory compliance, and data-driven decision making.

The role ensures data is treated as a strategic and governed asset while delivering actionable insights that improve business processes, operational efficiency and strategic decision-making at all levels of the organization.

Your key responsibilities include: 

• responsibility for the Data & Analytics function, staffing, skills development, and organisational performance management
• ownership of enterprise data architecture, models, and frameworks ensuring consistency, re-use, and regulatory compliance
• ownership of data platform operations and services
• accountability for BI dashboards, KPI frameworks, and standardised reporting
• accountability for establishment master data domains including but not limited to: Product, Customer, Vendor, Pricing, Regulatory, and Supply Chain Reference Data
• ensuring data privacy, retention, accessibility, and security controls operate in compliance with GDPR, GDP, GxP and internal standards
• serving as primary liaison to senior management regarding company-wide data initiatives, reporting modernisation, and analytics investments
• responsibility for driving legacy decommissioning of out-dated data services and build a robust modern data setup to support business
• participating in vendor governance, contract renewals, tool evaluations, and platform lifecycle planning including decommission and rationalisation
• managing vendor relationships
• orchestrating cross functional collaboration within Orifarm and IT

You will lead the Data and Analytics function to deliver on the key tasks:

Data Platform & Engineering

• Defining and maintaining ingestion and data transformation for internal and external data sources (commercial, ERP, WMS, market intelligence)
• Overseeing ETL/ELT pipeline design, code quality, orchestration scheduling, and monitoring
• Ensuring data models support scalability, performance, and traceability from source to consumption

Data Architecture

• Developing enterprise data models definitions aligned with master data standards
• Maintaining data catalogue, lineage documentation, metadata management, and semantic data layers
• Validating solution designs for new system implementations and integrations (ERP, CRM, WMS, MES, Regulatory etc.)

Business Intelligence & Reporting

• Defining standardised KPI libraries and aligned reporting definitions across the Orifarm.
• Managing analytics workload intake, prioritisation, and stakeholder sign-off

Data Science & Advanced Analytics

• Identifying and implementing data products and predictive analytics models supporting: Demand forecasting, Margin optimisation / pricing strategy, Process automation, Risk scoring (supply, regulatory, credit, compliance).

Master Data Management

• Establishing and controling master data policies, stewardship roles, and data quality monitoring processes
• Managing workflows for creation, change, and approval of master data in ERP / MDM tools
• Conducting data cleansing, matching, deduplication, and enrichment efforts

You will report to the CIO, working closely with colleagues across Orifarm’s international organization. 

Who are you? 

You bring:

• +10 years’ experience within data and analytics with +5 years leadership experience within data/analytics roles in medium-to-large organisations
• Master’s degree in Data Science, IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplines
• Experience working in regulated industries (ideally Pharma or Medical / Life Sciences)
• Hands-on experience with ERP, CRM, WMS, or regulatory systems and their underlying data models
• Experience leading organisational change and building data literacy across business functions
• Experience negotiating and managing vendor and consulting partner relationships
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary data organisations covering Data Engineering, BI, Data Science, Data Architecture, and MDM
• Proven success developing and executing enterprise data strategies that improved business performance and regulatory readiness
• Documented success in designing and scaling analytics platforms in cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Proven ability to establish and enforce data governance frameworks, including stewardship and data quality measurement
• Evidence of delivering business impact through predictive analytics, insight automation, or operational analytics programs
• Deep knowledge of modern data platform architectures (data lake, warehouse, streaming, API integration)
• Familiarity with machine learning model lifecycle management, feature engineering, and monitoring concepts
• Understanding of pharmaceutical regulatory data requirements (e.g., GxP, GDP, batch traceability, product serialisation)
• Knowledge in data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, retention rules, access control policies)
• Being strategic, structured, and disciplined in execution and documentation
• Adaptable and innovative mindset to proactively develop Data and Analytics to a high performing department delivering tangible value to Orifarm
• Strong leadership presence; comfortable communicating with senior stakeholders
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical frameworks, solutions and actionable outputs

Job Location

Warsaw, Poland. Hybrid work model – 3x/week from the office located in the prestigious Gdański Business Center at Inflancka 4A.

We offer:

• Fulltime employment contract
• Life insurance
• Private medical care
• Sports card
• PPK
• Hybrid work model
• Flexible working hours

Application deadline 

Ongoing recruitment.

Why should you work for Orifarm?

At Orifarm, we know that our growth comes from the development of our employees. We are an ambitious organization with an entrepreneurial culture celebrating can-do attitudes, smarts, and hearts. Our secret to success? Valuing how different skill sets join forces to make our journey happen. 

You will experience a work environment characterized by flexibility and a strong commitment to work-life balance, understanding that the best results come from satisfied and well-supported employees. Our international setting offers great opportunities for growth and career advancement. We also prioritize social events and gatherings to ensure that our employees feel connected and engaged with each other.

We regard our feedback culture as a fundamental element in the individual employee's opportunities for learning and development. When we have good results, every employee, including student workers, is part of our bonus scheme.

About Orifarm

Everyone should have access to modern medicine. High costs or lack of access to pharmaceuticals should never impact our possibility to receive treatment or relief and live a healthy life. At Orifarm, we aim to bring healthy days by making modern healthcare a better deal for the people and the societies we serve. Working towards our vision, we create access to affordable, high-quality pharmaceuticals and healthcare products by challenging markets and always seeking new opportunities. With our core values paving the way, we always act responsibly and constantly with our customers at the center of our attention. And everything we do is driven by our sole purpose: 

For as many as possible, as healthy a day as possible.

Our history goes back to 1994 when Orifarm was founded in Denmark by Hans and Birgitte Bøgh-Sørensen. Since then, Orifarm has grown from a small nine-person company into an international company operating globally in 15 countries. Today, Orifarm is Europe's largest parallel importer of pharmaceuticals and Denmark's largest supplier of pharmaceuticals, with more than 2,300 employees. 

We encourage everyone to apply

At Orifarm, we welcome people from all backgrounds, recognizing that the best outcomes come from a diverse and inclusive work environment. Our commitment is to create an environment where different perspectives and skills drive innovation and contribute to a sustainable future. By creating such an environment, we are confident that we can achieve better results together.

We are often looking for new employees to help us grow and therefore, we may have other interesting opportunities for you. Follow us on LinkedIn to receive updates on our business activities and job opportunities: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/. Alternatively, if we do not have any vacant positions that match your interests at this time, we encourage you to submit your resume to our talent pool, from which we continuously select candidates: https://careers.orifarm.com/lp/TalentPool/28c5a1691eef5fd4/.