Sr Manager, Marketing Sciences

At Gilead were creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years weve tackled diseases such as HIV viral hepatitis COVID-19 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.

Every member of Gileads team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions and were looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible together.

Job Description

Gileads mission is to discover develop and deliver therapies that will improve the lives of patients with life-threatening illnesses

worldwide.

We are seeking a visionarySr. Manager Data Scienceto drive high-impact cross-functional initiatives across therapeutic areas (TAs) that drive strategic value and innovation throughout the organization. This role will partner with diverse stakeholders and data science peers to establish best practices streamline operations and deliver measurable improvements in driving business performance team efficiency and cost optimization.

The ideal candidate will bring knowledge in healthcare data and a strong track record of applying advanced analytics and AI/ML techniques to inform decision-making and improve patient outcomes. This role will drive initiatives such as: Defining and implementing best practices in data science across teams and TAs; Championing scalable reusable solutions that accelerate insight generation and operational excellence; Drive cross TAs and cross functional data science initiatives including advancing cross-functional collaborations on initiatives like the Medical Digital Assistant HCP to account mapping Stigma measurement and etc.

Success in this role requires technical depth and the ability to influence and align stakeholders across functions to shape the future of data science within the enterprise. Hands on functional expertise highly collaborative mindset and leadership skillsets required.

This role reports directly to theSr. Director Marketing Sciencesand may be based in Parsippany (NJ) or Foster City (CA).

Responsibilities:

Be a partner in driving the industrialization of predictive sciences to help understand the patient journey and triggers robustly for markets.

Understand Gileads commercial business objectives develop and deploy scalable data science products and insights to influence decisions in marketing sales medical and etc.

Drive Data science projects end to end include convert unconstructured business questions into data science solutions be a hands-on expert who knows how to code and debug communicate with stakeholders and etc.

Foster a culture of measurement and impact and incorporate feedback to continuously improve data science models

Thorough understanding of statistics primarily predictive algorithms & methodologies to construct robust propensity models for impactful commercial use

Create data science products that can be refreshed reproduced and replicated

Work with other Data Scientists to define retraining schedule and measure propensity models for impact

Partner with global teams to cross-pollinate ideas and replicate successful models from other countries and vice versa

Excellent communication and ability to abstract backend complexity where it is not needed

Competencies:

Results orientation.The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced high-growth environment. He/She/They will have a strong drive to meet and exceed goals even under adverse circumstances and is willing to take ownership of problems and make decisions in order to move forward. The candidate will be adept at clearly defining objectives and priorities and establishing appropriate milestones through a strong understanding of the market and innovative approaches. He/She/They will assign accountability and incorporate disciplined processes to ensure success and nimbly handle derailments with contingency plans and coordination.

Team leadership.The successful candidate will have demonstrated the ability to build develop and motivate a team as evidenced by effective hiring coaching and mentoring of direct reports. Additionally this individual will have a track record of successfully leveraging diversity of thought to achieve the highest level of results. The ideal candidate will develop an inclusive culture comfortable with challenging current market paradigms to achieve and exceed goals. He/She/They will also have constructed an appropriate succession plan and process.

Strategic Orientation.The successful candidate will be able to articulate evolving priorities for the business identify market opportunities and adapt short-term plans. This includes the ability to strategically assess customer needs and build/execute specific segmented strategies to win business across a diverse set of customers. The successful candidate will have passion for and success in developing commercial strategies that have measurable business impact.

Collaboration and Influence.The qualified candidate must be able to influence without ownership which they will do by demonstrating competence and confidence being personally accessible and likable being a good listener use fact-based persuasion passion and persistence as appropriate to the audience and issue at stake. Gaining the support and involvement of key internal constituencies will be critical to success as will influencing those important constituencies external to the company. The successful candidate must therefore have excellent skills at influencing outcomes and shaping and catalyzing dialogue across and outside the organization. Credibility and integrity are critical attributes to effectively command the respect and trust of key individuals

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and Eight Years Experience
  OR
  Masters Degree and Six Years Experience
  OR
  PhD and Two Years Experience

• Strong working knowledge of machine learning algorithms including regression clustering neural networks Bayesian models RNN CNN Tree-based algorithms (RF XGB LightGBM) SMOTE and etc.

• Experience in building implementing and using AI-based solutions with proven business impact

• Strong leadership that be able to manage initiatives from beginning to end himself/herself
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Experience:

Experience in implementing optimizing and using AI-based solutions to establish proven business impact

Experience working with standard pharma and consumer data types and sources such as patient claims Xponent Plantrak sales activity.

Expertise in commonly used pharma datasets such as IQVIA Symphony Komodo claims Optum Definitive health Health Verity EMR/HER

Expertise in Python including commonly used data science libraries such as numpy pandas scikit-learn seaborn networkx etc.

Expertise in data science techniques such ANCOVA Bayesian Statistics Econometric modeling Neural Networks/Logistic etc.

Understanding of cloud-based technologies and tools such as Databricks S3 etc.

Experience designing measurement solutions in any visualization software (Tableau preferred)

Demonstrated product mindset

Familiarity with product management principles

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Strong team player. Inclusive objective cross-functional team member with a positive and solution-oriented mindset

Understanding of emerging data science capabilities (fields methodologies algorithms etc.) and potential application in pharma/health care

Thorough understanding of datasets including their strengths and limitations such as capture rate projections and acceptable error ranges for different therapeutic spaces

People Leader Accountabilities:

Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams modeling 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 and organizational objectives and holding

them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

The salary range for this position is:

Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation including experience qualifications and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role) paid time off and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical dental vision and life insurance plans*.

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Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

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