Director, Data Strategy and Governance (Commercial Therapeutic Data Strategy)

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
 

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. We strive to transform and simplify care for people with life-threatening illnesses around the world. Gilead's portfolio of products and pipeline of investigational drugs includes treatments for HIV/AIDS, COVID, HBV, HCV, HDV, Oncology and Cell Therapy as well as Inflammatory Diseases co. Gilead is a patient centric, science focused company.

This position reports to the Head of Data Strategy & Governance. Data is the key driver of business decisions for the Commercial organization at Gilead. This position is responsible for data strategy and acquisition for all therapeutic areas. This position will drive the data strategy for both internally available data as well as leveraging external partnerships. This position is responsible for leading commercial operations to the next level from a data strategy perspective. With significant budget responsibilities, this role will be the point of contact for all of commercial for data acquisition across all third-party data suppliers.

This position is site based at our Global Headquarters in Foster City, CA (no remote options). For this role we offer a hybrid environment with core collaboration days onsite at our campus (Tues, Wed, Thurs) and optional work from home days on Mondays and Fridays.

Core job responsibilities include:

• Lead Data acquisition for US working closely with US analytics, GDSI analytics, Data Science, and US marketing teams.
• Run the US data governance for new purchases, deleting purchases.
• Own data strategy & acquisition workstreams from end to end which includes but not limited to developing data strategy, acquiring budgets / approvals, working with vendor partners for creating long term partnerships as well as running proof of concept analytical projects.
• Drive quarterly / yearly data strategy sessions with the brand marketing and sales partners
• Work with vendors to evaluate data options for the Commercial Team
• Lead Specialty pharmacy data strategy along with patient data strategy for all therapeutic areas
• Develop best-in-class data strategy model for product launches [pipeline to commercial]
• Responsible for all budget management [accruals, forecast, cross charges etc] for a significant dollar amount
• Build business cases for new and exploratory data assets
• Drive analytical proof of concepts for new data assets and establish long term partnerships for successful POCs.
• Partners with IT, Analytics and other Commercial Operations stakeholders on building key Commercial systems and processes such as Commercial Data Warehouse (Lake)
• Explore new technologies to innovate and help other team members in areas of data investigations, data conflicts, manual data steward queue etc.
• Work closely with legal to establish DLAs with advertising partners
• Support advanced analytical capabilities from a data perspective.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to drive large and complex cross-functional projects and sustain them long term.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant software systems (e.g. MS Excel, Access, MS Word & PowerPoint, etc.) is required
• Knowledge of SQL, and/or other BI tools (MicroStrategy, Tableau, etc.) is required
• Ability to work with and coordinate demands from multiple internal customers; highly collaborative
• Demonstrated excellence in strategic and tactical analysi