Sr Director, Marketing Sciences

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve 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 world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
 

Every member of Gilead’s 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 we’re 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
 

Our Senior Director, Global Decision Sciences & Insights (GDSI) for the HIV Treatment Portfolio leads market and customer insights, forecasting, and analytics. Key stakeholders include the HIV 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/COVID/Emerging Viruses. The responsibilities include but are not limited to leading projects, driving HIV inline and pipeline insights, participating in high-profile 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 Gilead’s HIV Treatment through the execution of market research and forecasting/analytics in key commercial markets (i.e. US, EU4+UK, Japan, and China). 

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:

·       Primary point of contact, manage relationship with, and jointly lead work with an industry partner

·       Lead with solid hands-on 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 pipeline and a novel HIV treatment combination supporting strategic decision-making.

·       Serve as the key contact for HIV a novel HIV treatment combination and HIV pipeline-related 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.

·       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 

·       Lead a team of 3-4 individuals

Essential duties include:

·       Providing hands-on 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 assessmen