Digital Data Pharmacovigilance Manager

Location: India | Remote | Freelance
We are supporting a global pharmaceutical organisation looking for an experienced Digital Science Data Operations & Products Expert to provide delivery management across a portfolio of live Science data platform and data product initiatives.
This is a 4-5 month freelance assignment, working remotely with teams across India, France and Spain.

The Role

This is a delivery management position rather than a hands-on engineering role. You will coordinate internal teams and external suppliers, manage multiple parallel workstreams, maintain governance and provide clear visibility of delivery progress, risks and dependencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate multiple data platform and data product workstreams.
• Manage plans, milestones, actions, risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate internal teams, offshore delivery teams and external suppliers.
• Chair working sessions and governance meetings.
• Produce clear and actionable status reporting for senior leadership.
• Challenge supplier plans, estimates, risks and delivery timelines.
• Support data migration and platform implementation through cutover.
• Manage architecture, change/release and data governance activities.
• Support retention, archival, production deployment and transition activities.
• Maintain accurate documentation, trackers and governance records.

Essential Experience

• 4+ years' experience managing data platform or data product delivery.
• Pharma / Life Sciences experience is essential.
• Experience working with Pharmacovigilance, Real World Evidence, R&D or Regulatory teams.
• Experience acting as the client-side delivery counterpart to offshore teams and System Integrators.
• Experience taking a data migration or platform implementation through to cutover.
• Strong programme/project organisation and delivery discipline.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and reporting skills.
• Comfortable operating with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Able to work autonomously from day one.
• Fluent English and India-based, with flexibility to overlap European hours.

Technical Awareness

You don't need to be a developer, but should be comfortable discussing and challenging delivery across technologies such as:
SQL | Airflow | dbt | Power BI | Snowflake | Databricks | AWS

Contract Details

Location: India - Remote
Engagement: Freelance
Duration: 4-5 months, with potential to review/extend
Start: ASAP
Pharma/Life Sciences experience is non-negotiable for this position.
If you're an experienced Data Delivery / Data Product professional with a strong pharmaceutical background, please send your latest CV, availability and daily rate to discuss the opportunity.