Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Science Council Program Lead

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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Science Council Program Lead

Enterprise Data Science Overview

Recently, Gilead launched an Enterprise Data Science Council. The purpose of this council is to enable the coordinated and compliant scaling of data science across the enterprise, while preserving the strength and agility of the existing business-embedded data science teams.  

To achieve this, the Enterprise Data Science Council will take on four key roles: 

• Support and strengthen the data science community of practice.  
• Establish enterprise data science policies (ex., Enterprise data and AI governance).
• Coordinate and create transparency into data science use cases and investments across Gilead
• Extend our data science capability to pursue cross-functional innovation and enable functions with limited data science resources

Job Overview

The Senior Director, Enterprise Data Science Council Program Lead will work closely with the senior data science leaders, in particular the current Council Chair, Senior Vice President of Clinical Data Sciences. The primary responsibility of the Program Lead role will be to launch and operationalize the council by delivering tasks including (but not limited to): define a charter precisely encompassing the council scope and objectives, establish a program plan with clear priorities & quarterly commitments, and build working norms of the council that model a strong decision framework (Decide, Advise, and Inform). Once launched, the role will be instrumental hosting discussions, creating project plans, coordinating tasks and working groups across various functions, guiding the council’s focus on decisions which have a large impact on the enterprise, and tracking and monitoring results.

The position requires high proficiency in project management with proven ability to deliver results across multiple functions and disciplines. The candidate will need to conjugate ideas from various stakeholders (internal and external) and use that information to advance workstreams and guide important decisions related to the council’s four primary roles.  The Program Lead will work through ambiguous and uncharted settings at times, working closely with da