Associate Director, Data and Analytics

Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) a serious liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis liver failure need for liver transplantation and premature mortality. Every member of our Madrigal team is connected by our shared purpose: leading the fight against MASH.

Madrigals medication Rezdiffra (resmetirom) is a once-daily oral liver-directed THR-β agonist designed to target key underlying causes of MASH. Rezdiffra is the first and only medication approved by both the FDA and European Commission for the treatment of MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2 to F3). An ongoing Phase 3 outcomes trial is evaluating Rezdiffra for the treatment of compensated MASH cirrhosis (F4c).

Our success is driven by our people. We are building a dynamic inclusive and high-performing culture that values scientific excellence operational rigor and collaboration. To support our continued growth we are strengthening our workforce strategy to ensure we have the right talent at the right time in the right way.

Job Description

Reporting to Executive Director of Data and Analytics as Associate Director of Data and Analytics you will play a critical leadership role within the Data & Analytics organization supporting Corporate Finance and Supply Chain functions. This role is responsible for translating complex business requirements into scalable analytics predictive and conversational analytics solutions by leveraging deep domain expertise and modern data technologies. The Associate Director will oversee solution architecture data quality advanced analytics development and cross-functional collaboration to ensure high-impact trusted and transparent insights for the business.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership and Strategy:

• Provide technical leadership in the development and implementation of Supply Chain Finance and corporate function analytics solutions aligning with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Execute Madrigals established enterprise data strategy ensuring alignment with corporate supply chain and finance priorities and accelerating analytics delivery.
• Champion data governance trust and transparency by leveraging Alation for data cataloging lineage metadata management and access control.

2. Analytics Solution Architecture & Design

• Architect scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms using Azure and Microsoft Fabric enabling rapid insights and efficient data processing.
• Design and maintain semantic data models and dbt transformations to create well-governed reusable and trusted analytics layers.
• Build advanced Power BI dashboards semantic models dataflows and Fabric-based analytics workflows to support enterprise and self-service reporting.
• Integrate Workday Coupa NetSuite and other enterprise systems into unified high-quality data models supporting corporate finance and supply chain analytics needs.

3. Advanced Analytics Predictive & Conversational Solutions

• Lead the development of predictive models optimization analytics workflows to support forecasting financial planning and supply chain optimization.
• Apply statistical modeling and advanced analytics to extract strategic insights from complex datasets.
• Deliver conversational analytics solutions to support self-service and intuitive data access.

4. Data Quality Automation Privacy & Trust

• Develop and automate data quality rules profiling and anomaly detection to ensure accuracy completeness and consistency of analytics outputs.
• Implement data privacy and policy enforcement workflows using Immuta ensuring secure compliant and governed access to sensitive datasets in partner with data owners/stewards
• Drive enterprise-wide trust by establishing transparent data quality metrics automated validation layers and auditable pipelines inside Fabric dbt and Azure.

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery Execution

• Collaborate with business stakeholders data engineers data scientists and system owners to translate business requirements into technically sound analytics solutions.
• Act as a senior technical partner to business leaders ensuring analytics solutions meet strategic and operational needs.
• Lead Agile execution through JIRA for sprint management and Confluence for documentation standards and process governance.
• Mentor junior analysts and engineers to build technical excellence and cross-functional capabilities.

6. Continuous Improvement Innovation & Enablement

• Evaluate emerging tools and technologies across analytics engineering data governance data quality and conversational analytics to enhance enterprise capabilities.
• Drive adoption of modern self-service analytics capabilities through semantic modeling cataloging (Alation) and governed data access (Immuta).
• Contribute to reusable frameworks best practices documentation and governance processes that improve analytics efficiency and ensure data trustworthiness.

Required & Desired Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Statistics Mathematics or a related field; PhD preferred.
• 10 years of experience in analytics engineering data engineering or advanced analytics roles preferably in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.
• Strong proficiency in Python and R with demonstrated experience in statistical modeling and analytical computing.
• 8 years of experience in data manipulation integration SQL development and building scalable data products.
• Proven expertise with visualization and analytics platforms such as Power BI Tableau and enterprise BI ecosystems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric including Power BI semantic models dataflows pipelines and workspace governance.
• Deep expertise with dbt for modeling semantic layers and building scalable modular production-ready transformations.
• Experience designing and implementing automated data quality rules profiling anomaly detection and validation frameworks.
• Proficiency with Alation for data cataloging metadata management lineage stewardship and access control.
• Experience working in Agile environments with JIRA and Confluence for project planning sprint execution and documentation.
• Strong leadership communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to influence technical and business teams and drive strategic outcomes.

Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate business priorities into an actionable analytics strategy.
• Analytical Excellence: Demonstrates strong quantitative skills and ensures rigor transparency and clarity in insights.
• Influence & Communication: Communicates complex concepts simply shapes decisions and engages senior leadership effectively.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across functions and builds strong partnerships.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Drives modernization automation and adoption of new technologies.
• Results Orientation: Delivers high-quality work manages competing priorities and operates with a bias toward action.

Madrigal offers a competitive Total Rewards strategy to attract and retain top talent and is inclusive of base pay bonus equity and a generous benefits package. Full-time employees are eligible for base salary bonus equity and a comprehensive benefits suite.

Base salary is determined by several factors including the candidates qualifications skills education experience business needs and market demands. As of the date of this posting a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this position applicable to all candidates is $171000 - $209000 per year. We comply with all applicable minimum wage laws.

All full-time employees receive equity which reinforces our ownership culture and offers meaningful opportunity for our employees to share in the success they help create. By aligning individual and company performance we empower employees to think like owners giving them a stake in the organization.

Full-time employees are also eligible for comprehensive benefits including flexible paid time off medical dental vision and life/disability insurance and 401(k) offerings (i.e. traditional Roth and employer match) in accordance with applicable plans. We also offer additional voluntary benefits like supplemental life insurance legal services and other addition we offer mental health benefits through our Employee Assistance Program for employees and their family. The company also provides other benefits in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.

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Madrigal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications merit and business need. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race ethnicity color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin age disability protected veteran or disabled status or other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.

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