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At Gilead were creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years weve tackled diseases such as HIV viral hepatitis COVID19 and cancer working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the worlds biggest health challenges and our mission requires collaboration determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
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Job Description
Our Senior Director Global Decision Sciences & Insights (GDSI) for HIV & EV e leads market and customer insights forecasting and analytics. Key stakeholders include the HIV LAO Launch/EV Pipeline Global Strategic Marketing team and various internal partners as well as an external collaboration. This role reports to the Executive Director Global Decision Sciences & Insights HIV/Emerging Viruses. The responsibilities include but are not limited to leading projects driving HIV and EV pipeline insights participating in highprofile projects and collaborating with internal stakeholders globally. And representing Gilead GDSI perspectives in a partnership with another company.
This role will have global responsibility for generating foundational market understanding within the Gileads HIV and Emerging Virus through the of market research and forecasting/analytics in key commercial markets (i.e. US EU4UK Japan and China). This position will support the commercialization efforts for Gileads emerging virus portfolio and Gileads collaboration with an Industry Partner for the joint launch of a novel HIV treatment combination.
This role is located in our Foster City CA office (at least 3 days in office with our core collaboration days Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday).
The individual will:
Strong Leadership skills to manage complex relationships with senior executives and industry partner and represent function within JCC of Gilead and Industry Partner
Primary point of contact manage relationship with and jointly lead work with an industry partner
Lead with solid handson technical skills across analytics forecasting and market research.
Lead identification of information needs for upcoming critical business decisions and define global primary market research and data analytics priorities together with GSM leads
Drive robust integrated insights generation and deliver a clear and compelling storyline for HIV/EV pipeline and a novel HIV treatment combination supporting strategic decisionmaking.
Serve as the key contact for HIV a novel HIV treatment combination and HIV/EV pipelinerelated market and customer insights and forecasts.
For launch would be responsible for insights and testing of commercial launch strategy and promotional materials
Collaborate with Data Science for deeper insights into market dynamics and customer behaviors.
Develop and maintain the global forecast model to reflect latest updates on market insights. Proactive to identify opportunities to improve the model structure pressure test assumptions and develop approaches/ analytics to enhance the robustness of assumptions for EV and ISL combination assets
Ability to assume full responsibility for accuracy and reliability of complex analyses with minimum oversight
Be able to right size the forecasting approach with the balance between level of rigor time and resources constraints and business impact
Be the methodology expert and be able to triangulate with various approach/ incorporate latest industry best practices to enhance the robustness of the analytics and recommendations
Essential duties include:
Providing handson market analytics and insights leadership for global marketing strategy.
Insight generation and forecasting to support governance decisions on development programs
Leading strategic forecasting and commercial assessment activities for pipeline products and communication of assessments and recommendations to the senior leadership team.
Acting as the integrated insights lead as well as a business partner for HIV/EV pipeline representing the team in key situations.
Leading ad hoc strategy projects and initiatives.
Collaborating with key internal and external partners to improve efficiency and consistency.
Enabling professional growth and development for individual contributors through leadership effectiveness and solid technical skills.
Work closely with GSM to understand the business priorities and align on analytics needs
Be able to proactive identify business knowledge/ insights gap even in times to have independent view explore various options of analytics approaches decide on what is the right approach based on time/ resources business criticality and level of rigor requirement before
Share and gain alignment on commercial analytics insights to local teams (e.g. US forecasting US analytics local affiliates) to ensure insights are adopted and incorporated in
Be able to communicate the analytics findings in an executiveready approach with minimum oversight. Focus on the recommendations business implications but at the same time have the indepth knowledge and ability to articulate the details as needed.
Be seen as a credible insights leader that can share objective insights and mobilize the organization to actions anchored on the insights developed.
Market research
Market Research Related to Pipeline Planning Global Marketing and Business Development
Define Global market research priorities in collaboration with GSM Indication and/or Therapeutic Area Leads to proactively address key business decisions
Create foundational market understanding through the development of treatment flow maps market segmentation attribute/benefit testing positioning and campaign development etc.
Conduct primary research: develop qualitative and quantitative market research studies with physicians patients and payers
Manage vendors to determine appropriate research methodology ensure project alignment to business objectives and guide and reporting
Examine research findings to understand data key market insights and implications for Gilead
Conducting secondary research: analyze secondary data sources (e.g. Rx claims EMR epidemiology data) to produce descriptive and diagnostic summaries and insights/implications
Evaluating potential new secondary data sources to rationalize against array of data sources currently used by Gilead in a partnered environment
Examples of work can include but are not limited to opportunity assessments brand driver analyses patientlevel data analyses performance assessments treatment flow mapping segmentation product attribute/benefit testing positioning/messaging patient journey mapping HCP journey mapping etc.
Analytics & Forecasting
Analyze secondary data sources (e.g. prescription data epidemiology studies) to generate insights and identify implications
Forecasting/Analytics Related to Pipeline Planning Global Marketing and Business Development
Develop longterm (i.e. 10year) strategic forecasts for pipeline and marketed products that incorporate disease epidemiology evolving treatment paradigms competitive products and global pricing and access dynamics
Collaborate with internal experts in Market Research Literature Resources Competitive Intelligence R&D and Marketing/Sales leads to generate robust forecast assumptions
Conduct forecast scenario analysis to support decisionmaking by Commercial R&D Corporate Development Finance and Corporate executive leadership
Scope design and manage the of quantitative market research (e.g. discretechoice conjoint) to inform revenue forecasting
Codevelop and partner with Advanced Analytics in development and application of predictive sciences/modeling to deeply understand stakeholder insights related to patient journeys physician treatment processes institutional and provider decision making etc. and brand interventional strategies for both US and exUS
Solid understanding of exUS data limitations and creativity to perform analytics with limited data and triangulate insights across data sources
Examples of decisions that may be informed by analytics include progression of internal assets through the R&D pipeline partnerships or acquisitions of specific assets or whole companies strategic portfolio mix product pricing at launch and at the time of generic competition
Insights Synthesis and Communications
Communicate results of market research and forecasting/analytics to a variety of internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization:
Develop clear and effective communication materials (e.g. reports presentations) targeted to key audiences
Present and lead discussion of results and insights in a collaborative efficient manner
Work with Global Strategic Marketing Indication and/or Therapeutic Area Leads to understand implications of market research and forecasting/analytics insights for Gileads business and develop plans to address these implications
Lead ad hoc strategy projects and initiatives (e.g. evaluating new indications and markets) for internal assets and external opportunities
Work with group leadership to improve the efficiency consistency rigor and credibility of GDSI/GCSO
Leadership
Ability to set a vision exercise sound business judgment and clear decisionmaking and problemsolving skills
Credible as an integrated insights leader. Being sought after by crossfunctional partners for insights/ recommendations
Representing Gilead GDSI perspectives in a partnership with another company
Strong business acumen to understand business priorities/ focus from GSM/ marketing/ Program strategy perspectives to prioritize GDSI work focus and impact accordingly
Provide guidance to junior team members think strategically and can anticipate issues from technical and business point of views
Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact crossfunctionally esp. global to local affiliates interactions and at all levels of the organization to drive effective decisions and alignment
Experience to navigate complex organization dynamics different point of views and be able to problemsolve drive to consensus/ alignment via clear and compelling storylines
High attention to detail together with an ability to understand the big picture.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with an ability to efficiently communicate technical information to nontechnical members of senior management. Ready to present to senior management with the presence ability to develop storyline articulate recommendations and develop the right level of written communications
Has an opinion is a part of the team that decides on commercial strategy and is not just a provider of information.
Proactive selfstarter with the ability to learn quickly
Strong project management skills planning prioritization organizational ability objective setting meeting management and plan
Able to prioritize and utilize limited resources to manage multiple and/or conflicting requests from a variety of internal customers manage peak workload periods and ad hoc requests. Agile to react and plan for changing priorities is required.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree and 14 Years Experience
OR
Masters Degree and 12 Years Experience
OR
PhD and 12 Years Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
With a Bachelors degree at least 14 years relevant experience in biotechnology pharmaceuticals or consulting with a focus in one or more areas of market research forecasting analytics decision analytics commercial strategy or marketing or at least 12 years experience (with an advanced degree)
MBA Ph.D. in Life Sciences or M.D. is preferred
Experience specific to the HIV therapeutic area is preferred
Impeccable credibility as a commercial analytics expert and partner with the brand teams country teams and other crossfunctional partners
Business leadership experience and a track record of influencing without authority (specifically more senior Commercial and crossfunctional partners) in successful conflict resolution and driving consensus
Prior experience conducting analyzing and communicating qualitative and quantitative market research is required
Experience in patientbased market/revenue modeling is required
Must possess good task management skills planning prioritization objective setting and meeting management and plan
History of working and delivering on multiple projects simultaneously with tight deadlines and changing priorities is required
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are required
Ability to effectively leverage Microsoft Office (specifically PowerPoint and Excel) to present quantitative data in graphical form is required
Experience in successfully presenting to senior leadership audiences including simplifying complex materials educating and managing audiences with differing viewpoints to get to alignment via clear and compelling storylines
Experience in biopharmaceuticalfocused marketing commercial strategy or consulting is desirable
Proven history of working and delivering on multiple projects simultaneously with tight deadlines and changing priorities is required
Passionate about the function and a natural curiosity to solve complex problems
People Leader Accountabilities:
Create Inclusion knowing the business value of diverse teams modelling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
Develop Talent understand the skills experience aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow develop and realize their purpose.
Empower Teams connect the team to the organization by aligning goals purpose organizational objectives and holding to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.
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