Vice President - VP Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data

OU Health•Oklahoma City, OK

About The Position

The Vice President (VP) Analytics and AI Data is an executive business leadership role focused on leveraging data, analytics, and AI, to drive business value, foster a data-driven culture, and ensure the effective governance and utilization of data assets and ecosystem across the organization. This role is responsible for the creation and management of the data and analytics strategy and operating model. The VP Analytics and AI Data is responsible for establishing, leading, and operating the data & analytics (D&A) function; building trust and managing data; evolving technology capabilities; and developing talent and D&A culture. The incumbent will have a broad understanding of the full range of strategic data and analytics capabilities and the ability to communicate these concepts, methods, and techniques in ways easily understood by other stakeholders. This VP is also responsible for supporting organizational AI initiatives and understanding AI concepts and applications and AI’s applicability within the enterprise. The incumbent understands business objectives and goals; maintains industry domain expertise; and utilizes knowledge of D&A concepts, methods, and techniques, demonstrating the ability to engage and communicate with key stakeholders at all levels of the organization. The VP will facilitate AI and data-driven vision, strategy, and operating models.

Requirements

Master's Degree required. Degree in a relevant field (computer science, business administration; science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); data science; information systems; or related field) preferred. Academic qualification or professional training and experience in legal and regulatory areas are also desirable.
7 to 10 years progressive leadership experience required. 6 or more years of data & analytics, AI, and progressive leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams, multidisciplinary environments, and enterprise-wide data and analytics programs, operating and influencing effectively across the organization and within complex contexts experience required.
Experience in integrating complex, cross-corporate processes and information strategies and/or designing strategic metrics and scorecards is also required.
Possesses strong knowledge in healthcare technology in hospital & specialty provider space preferred. Acumen for strategic business and technology planning and execution, including policy development and maintenance and contributes to the AI strategy.
Ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options. Ability to translate among the languages used by executive, business, IT, and key stakeholders.
Understands data structures [structured, semistructured, and unstructured] data integration (ETL), metadata, and AI concepts and how to apply them in a complex environment. Strong background in data & analytics with Hospital / Healthcare provider environments preferred.
Knows the differences between data fabric, data mesh, data warehouse, data lake, or data hub. Identifies and manages the most important business information assets across the organization. Brings an Entrepreneurial / Intrapreneurial attitude.
Background in identifying, selecting, and implementing emerging and new technologies. Healthcare information technology preferred.
Understands Software, diagnostic, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics approaches, along with data engineering practices, concepts, and theories. Leads data governance and data literacy programs.
Demonstrated knowledge of information systems/tools, related software and data management, enterprise content management, and record-keeping policies and practices in a complex organizational environment. Organizes and leads a data and analytics center of excellence (D&A hub) and constantly improves the organization’s capacity to develop insights with advanced analytics and AI.
Understands business concepts, practices, and business domain language to engage in problem-solving sessions and discuss business issues in stakeholder language. Exhibits strong interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to navigate the political landscape of the organization.
Demonstrates executive presence and broad thinking and is articulate across all levels of the enterprise. Experience in recognizing the impact of technical / digital approaches can have on strategic business decisions.
Demonstrated understanding of business constraints and an ability to independently develop and convey highly complex strategic concepts in a concise and consumable manner for various audiences. Capacity to deliver on deadlines while contributing to various stakeholders, projects, and business relationships at once.
Ability to work independently or as part of a team and thrive in ambiguity, remain cool-headed with curve balls, and withstand the tests of a dynamic environment with resilience and resolve. Exceptional emotional intelligence to help manage complex relationships partners, stakeholders, design, engineering, and leadership.
Conversant in user experience research and design activities. Excellent verbal & written communications skills.

Nice To Haves

Previous healthcare experience preferred.
Strategy and management consulting experience desirable.

Responsibilities

Defines data, analytics, and AI strategy, including vision, drivers, and outcomes.
Leads the creation (and assures the ongoing relevance) of the organization’s D&A strategy in collaboration with the CEO, business domain leaders, CIO, and other relevant stakeholders.
Institutes an operating model for data, analytics, and AI that is consistent with the capabilities and competencies required to execute the strategy. The operating model includes the ecosystem, architecture, and delivery model.
Builds partnerships with executive leadership and board members to ensure that data is being managed as a business asset, data is AI-ready, and by tracking and measuring the value derived from those data assets.
Communicates the tangible business value generated from data, analytics, and AI initiatives to stakeholders and executives.
Maintains authority and accountability for the data assets, analytics used for decision making, and AI solutions that automate decisions and augment human performance.
Creates and oversees a centralized data management/data engineering service for sharing certified data products to ensure quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness.
Oversees delivery models, methods, and practices for creation of data, analytics, and AI products and to ensure consistent application and use of data and analytics solutions and services, including data science.
Evolves technology capabilities for the D&A platform, in collaboration with the Chief Information Officer (CIO), to align D&A initiatives with IT infrastructure and policies and drive technology innovation across the organization.
Establishes and maintains trust in AI-ready data assets by instituting governance mechanisms for data including fostering data stewardship across business data domains. Includes other leaders that share responsibility for data, such as security, privacy, risk, and compliance leaders.
Understands regulatory requirements, relevant data protection laws and regulations, such as GDPR, EU AI Act, and CCPA, and industry-specific standards. Ensures the organization's data practices are compliant, in collaboration with legal and compliance.
Oversees the ethical and responsible use of data and algorithms used for artificial intelligence, analytics, and automated decision making. Establishes guidelines and practices that prevent misuse of data and protect individual privacy beyond regulatory and compliance requirements.
Owns the development of a data-driven culture and related competencies, behaviors, and data and AI literacy across the enterprise. Leads transformation efforts by developing D&A talent and maturing the D&A capability of the organization.
Leads data-driven innovation for the enterprise, including investigation, adoption, and exploitation of artificial intelligence. Identifying new kinds, types, and sources of data to enable business value innovation throughout the organization and enable new use cases.
Monitors for emerging skills and technologies, focusing on accelerating business innovation and transformation. Provides AI-ready data, supporting graph analysis, prompt engineering, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Leads research, strategy creation, and development of new AI and data and analytics products or services to support marketing activities and impact enterprise profitability. Drives and oversees major business changes to deliver enterprise value by managing major data-driven change initiatives, including the support of AI.
Oversees the development, publishing, and maintenance of the organization’s data and analytics architecture and platforms, as well as a roadmap for its future development, ensuring that it matches and supports business and AI needs.
Defines job roles, recruits candidates, and then manages (directly or indirectly) a team of data and analytics leaders and senior information management professionals. Manages to their budget.