Director, Data Strategy and Governance; Commercial Therapeutic Data Strategy

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

United States - California - Foster City Commercial/Sales Operations Regular

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 s 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 (We will consider remote if you are in the Pacific Time Zone and can travel to Foster City as needed).

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 work streams 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 (Micro Strategy, Tableau, etc.) is required

• Ability to work with and coordinate demands from multiple internal customers; highly collaborative

• Demonstrated excellence in strategic and tactical analysis and proactive planning.

• Ability to recognize and interpret business issues/opportunities and recommend solutions through analysis / proof of concepts.

• Ability to present complex information in an accurate and persuasive manner to all levels of management.

• Ability to effectively communicate technical and qualitative information to non‑technical executives through interpersonal, verbal, and written channels.

• Deep knowledge of pharmaceutical data (specialty pharmacy, wholesaler data, Symphony and IQVIA offerings, etc) and systems (CRM, Customer Master, Data Warehouse, Sample systems, etc.)

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