Sr Manager, Pharma Commercial Data Management

Job Description

We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet.

Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next.

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.

Key Responsibilities Own and Manage Requirements for Data Products

• Understand business use cases and translate them into clear, actionable functional requirements for data models.
• Collaborate with Intelligence Product Owners and Analytics teams to document business rules and ensure alignment with analytical needs.

Partner with Gilead IT

• Collaborate closely with Gilead IT to execute new build projects and enhancements.
• Oversee and guide Dev Ops teams to ensure timely and high‑quality delivery of data solutions.
• Align technical design with business requirements and ensure architectural consistency.
• Ensure operational excellence in data ingestion, transformation, and delivery processes.
• Build and maintain robust, scalable, and automated data pipelines across internal and external sources.

Oversee Master Data Management (MDM)

• Manage HCP (Healthcare Professional) and Account MDM systems to ensure accurate, complete, and unified customer profiles.
• Ensure MDM processes and outputs align with Kite’s business requirements and downstream analytics needs.

Data Stewardship & Quality

• Ensure data products are clean, timely, and analytics‑ready through rigorous stewardship practices.
• Drive data quality monitoring, alerting, and remediation processes.
• Manage vendor SLAs and ensure adherence to data quality standards.

Governance & Compliance

• Oversee governance practices including metadata management, access control, and data lineage.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).

Data Onboarding & Lifecycle Management

• Create clear specifications and Functional Impact Assessments (FIAs) for onboarding new data sources.
• Establish, monitor, and enforce SLAs with external vendors to ensure timely and accurate data delivery.
• Lead onboarding of new data sources, stabilize them to a steady state, and manage ongoing cadence with data partners.

Enablement & Self‑Service

• Advance the vision of enabling self‑service for commercial business functions by increasing access to trusted data and insights.
• Mature the Pace Data Lab roadmap by integrating new data sources and expanding capabilities.
• Leverage AI tools to simplify on‑demand access to insights and empower business users.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Data Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 6 years of related experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and 8 years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data management, data modeling and operations preferably in a life sciences company
• 5+ years working with pharmaceutical data
• Experience in Data Governance – MDM, Data Stewardship, data quality management
• Experience building and operating Data warehouse/Datadlake on cloud
• Hands‑on experience with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/GCP/Azure). Knowledge of AWS, Databricks, Tableau is highly preferred
• Proven experience leading cross‑functional data initiatives and managing teams or vendor partners.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value.
• Excellent ability to build partnerships and work collaboratively.
• Ability to present data and initiatives to a diverse set of audiences.

Salary

Other US Locations: $ - $.
Bay Area: $ - $.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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